La Quinta Inn & Suites Woodlands South The Woodlands

... Church. Thirty-six years ago, the Church started serving meals as a fund-raiser, and it's been going strong ever since. I'd read rave reviews online and couldn't wait to feast! The restaurant is actually a small house next to the Church, and the smokers are just a few feet from the road. As I was walking across the parking lot, I spied a couple and fell in behind, saying "you look like you know what you're doing, so I'll just follow you". They laughed, stating ...

So I get here in the early evening, long enough time to hang at the Starbucks till it closed, thats why the last entry was put short. That evening went to the Jolly Fox Club and met an Armenian, and a welder, and a cool guy Steven, he bought me some drinks. Great. Met the owner of that place, and of the Humphreys. Had some drinks, and a sort of bad night, got sick in the hotel, and cleaned that up ...

... car is completely totaled. There are bystanders and cars everywhere stopped right in the middle of the road. There's three of us, so we go ahead and head into the scene. One ambulance has already taken off for Herman Memorial Trauma Center in Houston. One helicopter is about to land when I see my first patient - a 10 year old girl - laying in the arms of a woman. One of the firefighters has a C-collar on her so I tell Terry (the Intermediate attendant) to get the KED ...

... spike upwards and then her speach problems would get worse. Unfortunately her BP wasn't high enough to treat. Ah well, we got her to the hospital on time. I've reached the 3/4 point in my internship. Next shift will see my 360 hour evaluation and less than two weeks until I go home! I miss everyone terribly - especially my class mates. There's so much I want to discuss with them now that I've done my internship. I miss my family and my friends as well. I'll see you all soon!

... each. If they weighed over that we would be charged. Of course I had to get everything (clothing wise) that we owned into 4 suitcases plus shoes also. It wasn't very easy but I did it! We only had one suitcase that was close it weighed in at 48.5 pounds. I'm sure I could have gotten more in it.

We went to Bastop State Park. It is not very big, but good enough for my first backpacking experience! We hiked 3/4 of the trail the first day and stayed the night. The trail is small enough to do in one day but we wanted to camp out. It was very pretty but we camped in the wrong area and could hear the highway : ( Over all I enjoyed the hike.

This was my first time to Texas. I really liked it as a state. I am used to the mountainous region of Appalachia. Texas is totally flat, and I really liked that. I told some of my friends about it, and they were like,"It's all flat, why would you want to go there?!" Screw them, okay. It was great, and I think that they were jealous of me for getting to go. Waco was really cool.

So driving back and forth between Houston and Dallas/Ft Worth, I always pass the big Sam Houston statue in Huntsville. Finally one day I decided to stop and take a picture. Basically it's just right there on the side of the highway. I was trying to take a picture and all the truckers were honking at me. Someone told me it used to have a huge "bulge" in the pants area, but the town voted to have it shaved down.

What a great two days we all spent in Austin--meeting each other and learning more about the trip to Egypt. Both Chris and Kamran were awesome. They willingly shared their knowledge and personal anecdotes about the Middle East. The lectures were so informative --from academics on the growth of cities and the history of Islam to the nuts and bolts of what NOT to eat and what NOT to wear. I think when Chris put the ticket into my hand, I finally realized I was really going to Egypt!