Making Friends and First Day of Work

Ok well leaving off from my last post, we went out for dinner at some Mediterranean place - very nice pizza! - but we ran into a couple of people from the halls we're staying at (loving called The Woo!) on the way back who were on the way to the arcade. Being slightly curious about American arcades we tagged along when they offered and after an hour or so of that we also tagged along when they headed off to a party. It turned out to be a pool party which we definitely weren't dressed for! It was a shame really but we surprisingly didn't decide to join those clearly just wearing their underwear. It was a really good night anyway, we got to meet a lot of really nice people who all invited us to another party the next night as well.

Not wanting to waste anytime in Austin we clearly decided to go along to this as well. It was quite a way though so one of the guys we'd only met the night before drove us there. It wasn't a very big party but they are really nice people and it felt like we'd all been friends for years. At about 5am when we thought we were going home we actually detoured to 'The Waffle House' and all had amazing waffles with hot maple syrup before actually going home - the perfect end to the night.

On Sunday we clearly got up late but still managed to go swimming in the Uni pool which despite the temperature still for some reason has a hot tub... I have absolutely no idea why although it does make the outside temperature at 110 F seem relatively cool...
We had been invited to a boat party that night as well but given that we had work the next day we gave it a miss begrudgingly. Hopefully there'll be another boat party whilst we're here, apparently it takes a trip around the lake and everything!

Anyway first day of work today was really great! We got set the task of sifting through Jury Questionnaires for an upcoming case - its scary what some people have put! - to determine which would be most in favour and most against the death penalty. It was really interesting and it feels like we're really helping - the office need as much help as they can get and they really do rely on their interns so I think its going to be a very busy summer.

I think thats all my news for now, I'll post again when I have anything exciting to share
Em xxx