Nostalgia...

Two years has flown by and sadly I even neglected to finish writing about Yellowstone 2007 and here I am starting over with Yellowstone 2009. So for those still checking in on here I hope to be a bit more disciplined in timely posts and apologize for the delay.

I guess an update is due or at least a highlight reel of the last two years.

After leaving Yellowstone I returned to school in Michigan for my junior year which was pretty uneventful because I was taking so many classes in order to graduate the following winter. I did manage to get an internship set up for the Summer of 08' arranged and moved down to Madison, WI in May to write legislation for the Green Tier Program within the WDNR. Thus, most of my summer was spent in an office. Callie (my roommate) and I did get one pretty awesome hiking trip in at Devils Lake State Park, but that was about it.

Around mid summer in 08' my professor contacted me regarding another internship working with a news source at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. So after what seemed like endless pages of paperwork I got a position working with NBC News. I was specifically assigned to Meet the Press featuring Nancy Pelosi and Caroline Kennedy. It was an amazing experience being involved with such a historical event. I also was able to attend President Obama's acceptance speech.

So after missing the first week of classes for my senior year because of the DNC I got back to Marquette and settled in for my last semester. For the few months that I had left in college I got a job as a substitute teacher for the area schools. Then as quickly as it started, it ended with my graduation in December. I was the youngest in my class but graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelors degree in pre-law/political science and a minor in environmental conservation.

And that gets me to now. A semester off. I moved back home to help my mom and save some money for my next adventures.

Currently, I am all set to return to Yellowstone this summer and have already begun planning some camping trips within the park. When I return in August I will be starting graduate classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the area of environmental policy. Oh, I also won a trip to Las Vegas and went in March to celebrate my 21st Birthday.

Thats about all I have for right now, I will, however, be keeping up with this blog for awhile again. In the next few weeks be looking for posts about my weekend trip to Marquette that is coming up and my trip to Albuquerque to visit my brother at the end of the month.