The Last Few Weeks

So apparently keeping up with this a little more difficult than I originally imagined! The past few weeks have certainly kept us busy. I have settled into my internship nicely. I have taken over several of the sessions, and will continue to take over more and more until I am eventually planning and leading all of the sessions. There are two weeks left in the preschool's year, then I get one week off before our summer therapy starts. This is when only the speech therapists are around doing therapy while the preschool classes are on break. We only work 3 days a week, and as it turns out several of our kids will not be attending summer therapy for various reasons, so even the days we are working are essentially half days. We will do most of the planning for the sessions at home, giving us more flexibility with our schedule. That will be really nice for me, as our visitors start rolling in very soon, beginning with George's visit during my week off, and continuing until after I finish my internship. It will be busy, but we are looking forward to sharing our experience with our friends and family!
Other than work, Lucy and I have kept ourselves pretty busy on the weekends as well. We first met up with a connection through my grandmother. She and her family have already been extremely helpful. They took us out to lunch and grocery shopping at the U-Village, which is just a few blocks from where Lucy and I live. They also took us to another festival in Seattle, the Folklife Festival, on Memorial Day. It was a lot of fun. Folklife is a big music festival that celebrates all kinds of musical acts from around the area. We are talking everything from Traditional Scottish music to Bollywood dancing to indie. All kinds of people are there, and even aside from the registered acts are loads of people set up on the sidewalks playing homemade instruments, performing magic, etc. And again, food vendors are set up along the way as well. Lucy and I really enjoyed the different music we were able to listen to, and people watching was pretty fantastic as well.
The past two weekends we have taken it somewhat easier. After Memorial Day I got sick and was extremely tired the whole week. Lucy and I went to a movie that Saturday. The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has been going on, so we saw a Scottish movie starring Jamie Bell and Claire Forlani. We then explored the area where the theater was (Queen Anne neighborhood), had coffee and went to a huge record store, Easy Street Records. I think we could have spent hours in there were if we had the chance. Then this past Thursday we went to the Burke Museum of Natural History at UW. It is free the first Thursday of every month. It was very interesting, and they had an exhibit on the Hoh River and the Native Americans in the area. It also showcased a lot of the different cultures of the Pacific Northwest, which was really neat. We ate Indian food one night (Lucy's first time trying it) and had Bubble Tea. Yesterday we shopped a little more on the Ave. The weather here has been extremely rainy and cold-the complete opposite of the heat wave going on in SC right now! It has literally been in the 50s in and out over the past few weeks. Needless to say, neither of us brought many winter clothes with us, so we were looking for some long sleeved shirts to carry us through the next couple of weeks until hopefully it starts to feel at least like spring. Today it was chilly and overcast so we headed downtown to check out the aquarium. We grabbed a late lunch downtown and as we were leaving, the sun finally came out and was had some beautiful blue skies.
I think that pretty much sums up the past few weeks! I will try to post a little more regularly here on out!