I surfed his couch

So when i got off the plane in Portland, I had my first adventure of traveling on my own. While I was at jesse's, I'd written down all the directions I needed to get to Mike's house in Portland using the public transit. It worked surprisingly well! Imagine that, public transit isn't frustrating places other than Hawaii...

anyway, I made it to this house and met some interesting people. as I didn't take any pictures, I think it'd be difficult to really say too much about them other than I didn't know any of them when I got there, but i soon found out that they were great and I felt very comfortable. I got out the door at this morning and made it to the open house at OCOM which was very interesting.

I was quite excited listening to OCOM's clinic guy talk about their research program until he said that most students don't have time to participate. junk. Other than that, it was good stuff overall , but while I was expecting to feel a resonance with the school or the people, I found myself getting excited thinking about changes to ask about at WMI.

after I was finished at OCOM (and after running into makin'bacon's brother - random!), I was off again to PDX to meet up with Pete and Laurie (YAY!) and off to Hood River.