AVID Overnighter Field Trip

From Thursday till saturday last week I was on an field trip though the state of california visiting 6 different colleges with a organization called AVID, which prepares us for college.  The first college we visited was Fresno State Univerisity.  The college is nice but i would not attend the school due to the location in the central valley, almost in the middle of nowhere.  The second college we visited on the first day was CSU Stanislaus in the city of turlock.  This campus was beautiful, and has water fountains all over the place and i love water fountains.  After that college we continued to Sacramento, my home away from home, and stayed in a Quality Inn on the outskirts of the city in Rancho Cordovia.  We waited for 1 1/2 hours to get our hotel rooms because the hotel lost our reservations, just like last year .  The next morning we visited the state capitol building but was unable to take a photo in front due to the fact that President Bush was comming to town that day.  We then went to Sacramento State.  For some reason i hate the campus, not the area, just the campus.  Then we headed for San Francisco State.  I fell in love with this campus, i will be looking into this college to see if they have my major.  Then we went to fishermens warf where i bought myself a new zippo lighter .  Then we headed for our hotel in Freedom north of Monterey Bay.  The next morning we drove thought UC santa cruz, we would have gotten out and walked but it was too big for use to walk thought.  There were like, 10 different schools there.  I love the area it is in, but the school is too bug for my taste.  Then we went down to UC Santa Barbara.  The AVId Sr's were allowed to go where ever for this so Jeff and I just went straight for the beach where we stayed for one hour before heading to the bus.  Then we took the long ride home.  In total we traveled 1,107 miles and have been on the bus for 21 hours and 36 mins.

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