I just wanted to write a quick post from the craziness of Perspectives training. Everything is going really well, and we are all getting SUPER excited for the freshmen and new transfers to arrive on Friday!! Yesterday, we split into groups to explore different parts of Tacoma on the Pierce Transit bus system. My group went to Point Defiance, which is one of my new favorite spots in Tacoma… and only about 20 minutes from campus on the bus. We enjoyed our lunch in the rose garden (which smelled beyond amazing), and then looked around at some of the beautiful roses, dahlias, zinnias, hydrangeas, fuchsias, and more. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures:
Today, though, Tacoma was all aflutter with two sonic booms we experienced this afternoon. As far as I can remember, they were the first sonic booms I had ever heard, and they came as quite the surprise. Basically, President Obama was visiting Seattle (Cool!), and so there was a temporary no-fly zone over the whole South Sound area. A Cessna was detected in the area, so two F-15’s flew up from Portland to check out the situation. Because of the emergency situation, they were going VERY fast, and broke the sound barrier! You can read all about it here. Although the booms were cool, I know that they scared a lot of people and knocked a few things off peoples’ walls/shelves. The physics of flight can be so powerful!
Tonight, all of the Passages and Perspectives leaders are going bowling, so I’m about to leave for that, and then it’s time for another long (but amazing) day tomorrow, starting up at 7:30pm. To all the new Puget Sound students… I hope you are getting excited to arrive on Friday, because you can be 110% sure that we are very, very excited to meet you all!