This last couple of days I\u2019ve been working out the itinerary for the San Francisco trip starting this Sunday. We aren\u2019t spending a lot of time as a group for the three of six students \u2013 the other three students are in the Conference Associate program, so they have their own schedules as passed out by the organizers \u2013 I\u2019m travelling with.<\/p>\n
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But after pouring over maps, transportation routes, places, visitation periods over the last several hours, and trying to synchronize each day\u2019s plan with conference hours, career seminars, award festival events, networking and party nights, I\u2019ve come up with a plan that I\u2019m pretty happy with. We\u2019re gonna be occupied every single morning, afternoon and night for next week!<\/p>\n
The planning was helped especially that we\u2019re going to a place where English is the spoken language. I think things would be that much more challenging if we were going to say Japan and planning our own itineraries.<\/p>\n
And of course, there\u2019s Google. Back several years ago when we were planning for our Copenhagen visit I don\u2019t think there was nearly as nifty a tool at Google Maps. I don\u2019t have a PDA or a Smartphone which would make things even easier since you can view maps on those devices, so it\u2019s paper + printer planning instead.<\/p>\n
Matt was remarking that he finds it hard to get over the fact that I\u2019m travelling all the way over to his country and he won\u2019t be there to see me. He asked how am I going to act properly in the US without him, and that I\u2019m probably gonna screw up my first liqour store robbery, or be way too polite during my first mugging. If he were there, he\u2019d make sure I\u2019ll fit right in LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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