Week of New Things

Last week I finally got started into school and had a week of a bunch of new exciting things. I got to move into my basement apartment, which is the first time living away from home for me outside of dorms. It was really weird. For the first week or so I felt as if I was sneaking up on somebody else’s house. I’m still trying to unpack.

I spent more money than I ever have at the grocery store at one time. I went on 10% Tuesday and I think almost everything I bought was also on sale before the 10%. I was feeling pretty good, it took me a couple of hours to get to the checkout to hear the total $110….dang! Then looking at the number of bags it suddenly hit me, I have no car and I live about a mile and a half away from the grocery store. Luckily it’s a small town because I was left with no option but to walk to shopping cart to my house on the side of the road. After about an hour, and a bunch of laughs from neighbors later, I made it.

Last but not least I got to go up on my first flight here at Prairie. I get along with my instructor really well and am learning a lot already. I usually spend 8 hours a day at the airport doing some kind of work, its super crazy but really rewarding already. My second flight was exciting because we had carb ice before we took off and frost on the wings so we had to pull the plane into the hangar and crank up the heat. When we finally got up the sky was clear so I got a clear view of the beautiful snow covered Rockies as I looked out over the prairies flying 2000 feet above the ground. It was awesome.