My Lovely Trip to OPE

So I thought I would share my drip to the Oshkosh Placement Exchange

with the world.

Unfortunately I did not have a camera so I have illustrated

my trip with some photo illustrations.

I was sleeping peacefully thursday morning after a long night

of worried packing, frantic double checking, and loud boy

shushing when my alarm went off at 6:30am.

So I stretched and jumped out of bed excited for what the

weekend would bring.

Jennifer, Shawn and I drove to Kansas City where we met

up with Melissa.

We got our boarding passes, and

jumped on a plane to Milwaukee Wisconsin!

When we landed we got a sweet silver ride and drove on

to Oshkosh.

I was still pretty tired from my busy night so I napped,

but still managed to catch a few glimpses of the lovely Wisconsin country side.

I awoke from my nap to find that we had arrived. We all got out and headed inside the conference center. From this point on I was a little overwhelmed for two reasons.

1. There was a frenzy of posters everywhere for any school you can imagine.

2. There weren't any door decs.

However my fears and butterflies subsided after I packed

and helped hang up some posters for Pitt State. That evening

we ate at Red Robin, which is very tasty!

Friday morning I woke up once more at 6:30 to find that

my little cold had turned into a big one. So I took some

meds a headed off for a candidate briefing and a breakfast social with KU.

After breakfast I started feeling a bit better and started

off my long day of interviews.

The day had its ups and downs, which were caused

mostly by the amount of congestion and pressure I was feeling.

I made it through though and ended the day with some

delicious food and a big smile on my face.

Saturday I awoke feeling a bit better, and started yet another

long long long long long day of interviews.

Finally around 6 I had finished! So I turned up my music

in my room, put on a dress and danced around feeling very proud of myself.

That evening there was a social for everyone who had gone

to OPE. Everyone. It was intense.

But the food was amazing, and I had my first cheese curd experience.

Yes, they did squeak.

Finally it was time to go home, but first we made a pit stop at Shawn's

house to eat brunch with his family. It was delicious, and just what I needed.

We drove back to Milwaukee, and I napped again.

Then we flew home to Kansas!

The whole experience was something else. I was intimidated,

scared, hopeful, happy, hungry, ecstatic, and a whole bunch of

other things rolled into one. Way to many feelings for three days.

I'm expecting good things to come of this, and I wanted to share it with you all!