Sunday, my mind kept tossing back and forth the question, "Should I bring my laptop?"  On one hand, what if I needed it to work?  On the other, what if I didn't and a laptop is heavy... I finally decided not to.  They would have stuff for me to do without the Catlin pre-requisite of a laptop, right?

As it turns out, I should have stuck with the first choice: bringing it.  My day was a rather short one, only consisting of about an hour with my mentor, Ellen, and then returning home to work independently (on my laptop).  I rode the MAX to the Urban Plaza, bought a chai tea latte from Seattle's Best and went up to the third floor.  I had been in the Urban Center building a few times to know vaguely where to go, but I still had to ask around a bit.  After finding Ellen's office, she took me over to meet Nicole.  This project was the brain-child of both Ellen and Nicole, so I will be reporting to both of them.  Everyday, I should try to check in with each and tell them what I am thinking of doing today.

Which brings me to my briefing.  Ellen had laid out a nice, numbered guide of everything I should do during my three weeks.  There is some data entry, but also some interviewing chicken owners, taking pictures, researching in Multnomah Library, ect.  I definitely won't be bored!  This internship is fairly autonomous; they told me that if it was rainy and cold one day, I could skip the tour of Portland for that day and just do some research.  Or if it was brilliant one day (like May should be), I could go take pictures. 

It think this internship is going to be so much fun, I can't wait!