This week in review

Happy Friday! We have made it! As I reflect on this past week, a lot of neat things have happened. One week ago, I was beginning a voyage to Baltimore for the Notre Dame AmeriCorps Midyear conference. I am lucky to have the opportunity to serve as an AmeriCorps member this year at Su Casa Hispanic Center. Every year, Notre Dame AmeriCorps has a big conference with all their members nationwide. So approximately 200-300 people gathered together in one hotel all weekend. Fun, yes. Overwhelming? At times. So I started the week there and end it on my couch. Here are my fives:

1. Amerifam

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The M is covering my face. But you all see me all the time. These are the people I serve with in Cincinnati. While I’m the only AmeriCorps member placed at Su Casa, these people are doing similar things at other organizations in the city. Some of these people I’ve hung out with before. Others I had the pleasure of getting to know over the weekend. Lots of hanging out in hotel rooms, playing card games and learning new things about each other.

2. Snow!

There is nothing better than snow coming down when you have nowhere to go. Sunday and Monday were a glorious winter wonderland in the Greater Baltimore area. Our members from Florida were loving it. They were having a snowball fight outside our hotel room. A lot of them had never actually seen snow and were quite excited about it.

3. This fireplace photo

We stayed at the Hunt Valley Inn, a nice hotel at the very edge of Baltimore. I found my room to be quite nice. The hotel lobby had some fun modern furniture and a fireplace. I was loving my outfit (pictured above) on Sunday and asked my friend Una, long-time A World of Dresses fan, to help me snap a few. This one is one of my favorites.

4. Sushi with Kendra

Kendra was actually one of the first people I featured on the blog. This was probably my favorite photo from that shoot. As soon as I turned my phone off airplane mode after landing in Cincinnati Tuesday, I got a text from Kendra asking me if I wanted to go get sushi. Of course I did. So we went to Mr. Sushi and had an amazing time talking about all the things.