Sarah got a chance to meet Ty Pennington a little while back. Who is Ty Pennington you ask. Well you might remember him from his involvement with ABC's extreme home makeover show, or his signature line of flooring with Lumber Liquidators.
Long story short, Sarah got a quick chance to meet, greet, and have a picture snapped with Ty.
With one semester to go, for my MBA, the goal of graduation is in sight. Now if a job were also in sight we would be set, but all in due time. For now I will think about the semester ahead and how it will continue to prepare me for the job market.
I am taking six classes this semester which are:
Corporate Finance - this will build on the finance classes I have taken previously while putting theory and practice together.
Leadership Advantage - this class matched each student, from day one of the program, with an executive coach to help us with our leadership preparation and skills.
Global Competative Strategy - sounds like it will cover decision making process at multiple levels of an organization. From what I have heard our professor is great and the class is top notch.
Project Management - This will look back at some more interesting operational problems and get into the nitty gritty of project management. Should be pretty helpful since I am leading our field consultancy group.
Advanced Financial Modeling Techniques - I am expecting this class to help put more of the corporate finance into practice and help me develop some interesting tools for the future, but who knows.
Field Consultancy - This is a very interesting way for us to get hands on work outside of our summer internships experiences. It gives students the opportunity to help companies work through real challenges and see their solutions challenged and implimented.
What a treat! Of all the friends that we have, the Stewart's were amongst the last that we thought would ever make it to Williamsburg, but wonders never cease. The Stewart's would be the first to admit this! I (Sarah) use to work with Shelby, and we have become great friends with the two of them. But they have two (adorable) little girls, both work more than full time and always seem to be busy, so we were totally excited when they decided to come to town! We had a great time showing them around.
We made sure they visited the historical triangle with a quick drive through of Jamestown, Yorktown and back to Williamsburg. We ate at our favorite BBQ place (so far, all of our guests have enjoyed Smokin' Joes!) and they were in town for one of the famous things that Williamsburg does, GRAND ILLUMINATIONS!
The first Sunday in December is Grand Illuminations. So, we headed into Willyburg in the late afternoon to walk through Colonial Williamsburg. They still decorate for Christmas like they did in Colonial times. So no electric lights, it's all done with organic materials. Each door is adorned with a Christmas wreath and every wreath is different. Rather that use ribbons and pinecones for decoration, wreaths are decorated using fresh fruit (apples, pomegranates, lemons and pineapples (of course)) and other materials (cotton, sticks, feathers) and the result is very cool. We rested at the Cheese Shop with a great bottle of wine (Cameron Hughes Syrah Lot 24).
then we walked to the lawn in front of the Governor's Place to listen to the fife and drum before the fireworks. It was a 20 minute show and really was well done.
We were sad to see these two head back to Seattle - but we knew we'd see them at Christmas...
post to come soon.....
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