Wow, it's been a long time...

Currently listening to: He Is Legend - Suck Out the Poison

It's been a super, super long time since I last posted in here, so I'll give a little rundown of what's happened.

I'm interning at General Motors again in Detroit for the summer. My job assignment basically consists of ensuring that a conveyor system for a new plant gets built. It's pretty annoying because it has nothing what so ever to do with my major, but at least it's good money for the summer ($3150/month and they pay for my rent, utilities, internet, cable, etc...). They acted like I'd never told them I had changed my major, even though that wasn't the case at all. Then when I complained this year, nothing was done to move me into a job that was related.

However, I got super lucky with my roommates and friends this year. My roomies are both awesome and we've had a blast so far, so I'm really glad to be rooming with them. Jose is from Puerto Rico and Michael's from Texas. It's been fun talking to them and hearing about all of the differences that exist between the places we all live. I've also met a lot of cool interns and to be honest, I'm actually kind of sad I'll probably never see them again after this summer.

A couple weekends ago we went off-roading at a place called Mounds, which is about an hour north of us (near Flint, MI). That was a blast, but my truck took quite the beating from it. We drowned the distributor, which killed the truck for an hour and a half until it dried out. I sank the truck in 2 mud holes, snapped my 30,000 lb tow strap getting out of one of them, and ripped a few plastic screws out in my fender liners. A tree also attacked the right side of the truck, so now I have a big scrape on my door. But it was the most fun off-roading I've ever had, so it was worth it! I bought the truck to beat on it and still be able to get around and it's done a good job so far. Some other GM interns came out with us, we went camping, and just had a good time. We learned a lot of the small town people in this area are nowhere near as friendly as home, but oh well.

Last weekend we went camping in Ontario at a place called Wheatley, which was really fun too. We did some fishing on Lake Erie, relaxed on the beach, had some awesome camp fires, etc... We also took a trip down to Point Pelee National Park in Ontario. It's the only place in the world (I believe) where waves collide with each other from completely opposite directions on a normal basis. The point is super long and narrow. We took a shuttle out there and then walked a boardwalk out to the tip and it was pretty cool. I'll have pictures on Facebook shortly- I'm catching up on them all! Once I do, I'll post links in here.

This weekend I head home for the 2-week July shutdown here at GM. I'll be home from this Friday (hopefully) until next Sunday. After that, I'm coming back for the second week of shutdown to work and earn some more money. I'm really excited to see everyone though and have a good time hanging out for July 4th!