Courtney?

so i know i have been quite inconsistent with my posts lately buuuut it’s the summer and i’ve been extremely busy working on summer assignments and whatnot haha yeah right anyway i decided to share a little about my adventures

i went to girls state for a week that wasn’t my favorite thing but i learned a lot about the way our state’s governemnt works and i met some really awesome girls from around louisiana despite waking up at 6 every morning and marching around campus like we were in boot camp oh and the shitty food it was pretty decent.

i think probably the best experience this summer and quite possible ever was going to lead america. I flew out to dc for a 10 day conference on medicine at georgetown university. i loved the campus the architecture of the buildings was great and everything is uphill so i got good exercise haha the weather is also amazing like no humidity whatsoever it was wonderful. we had lectures everyday and we did patient simulations that med students do. they hired actors to play a patient and we had to visit with them and diagnose them. there was just a lot of really interesting opportunities that we received. there were like 300 other students there i think? a few from different countries but most from all over the u.s. it was such a great experience to meet so many people from such different cultures. my roomate was this really cool slightly hippie chick named jessica from colorado and cassie was next door she was from michigan there were two guys in my group that we hung out with ben from houston and brandon from california both were really cool and we also hung out with greg from california who was pretty cool too we got to see some of the memorials and monuments and went to congress, supreme court, and the smithsonian

haha i just read that and i sound like a little kid that just got back from summer camp but it was really great

so i’m having surgery on my nose tomorrow due to my deviated septum

my family is also hosting a foreign exchange student this year and she arrives on the 16th so i think that will be interesting

all in all i think i’ve had a great summer that is hopefully leading up to a great senior year