BBQ! Woohoo!

What a great week!
The weather has been mid to high 70s and sunny! I got a little sun burnt two days ago and am just enjoying myself. Today is Friday and I am off work a bit early. What else could put me in a better mood? Oh, well tonight is a gathering of friends at Sara's house and I am way excited. Looks like it's BBQ and side dishes. I am thinking this will be a blast!
So this past week has been busy. I have been working on homework for my summer class and things are going really well. A long while ago I was taught how to use a virtual world called SecondLife, for an online English class and found out that I will get to use it for this summer class I am taking now. I decided to build The Shrine of St Therese (for homework) in Secondlife so that others can see it. And I emailed my teacher to have him take a look at my work. It turns out he was very impressed and wanted to know if I would be interested in talking to the Provost of the University of Alaska system about the educational benefits of this virtual world. Also, he wanted to show The Shrine to him. I thought that was pretty neat and very unexpected.
Besides school I have been working my tail off at Era again this summer. I am enjoying it even better then last year and the time here is flying by because I am having such a blast. Last week I got to take a flight with Mike Bury, a pilot who has been around for a bit but I hadn't gotten the chance to fly with him until recently. It was great! We landed on the Norris glacier and walked about looking at the huge cracks, moulin, and large glacial pools. It was gorgeous! I managed to snap a few pictures before my camera died. I will have to post those soon.
Welp, time to start getting ready for the BBQ tonight!
♥Melissa

Another School Year Gone

So yesterday was pretty awesome!
As you have probably realized, I have not been on much lately. I have been finishing up this semester of school and also started work again last week. But I am on now to update about the great day everyone had yesterday.
It was commencement for UAS. We started off the day with a brunch fro Kari and Robert at Lisa's house. The food was great and the company was even better. It was nice meeting Robert and Kari's family. Meeting peoples loved ones always give you a glimpse into their lives. After the brunch we parked at campus and took shuttle buses over to the recreation center for the graduation.
All the graduates and professors donned the typical robes. The music was good, the speakers were good. Overall, it was much less painful then last year. The only thing I would say is that only about 20 min of the 2 hr ceremony had anything to do with the graduates. The rest was about outstanding community members that no one really cares about. I mean, seriously...Some parents traveled from far distances and paid a lot of money to get here to see their kids graduates. All they got was about 20 min. And that's all I have to say about it...
After the graduation, everyone went home and crashed. Quick naps gave us all a boost of energy for the bonfire last night. It was a great time, as many of us friends gathered around a bonfire on the beach and watched whales and porpoises feeding in the distance. Overall, it turned out to be a great evening and we left early enough for me to get plenty of sleep before having to be up for work today.
Right now, the sun is shining and I only have to work a half day. Pretty sure I can't complain about anything at the moment!