Welcome to the mile high city!

It's ONLY been 5 days? Really? Yeah. Crazy, right? I feel like I've been here for about a month already. And that seems to be the general consensus around here. Anyways... just wanted to put that out there. Now on to the post.

Yesterday we had a day off. It supposedly reached a high of 78 and it was sunny, a PERFECT day to go out and explore some of Denver. Michala, Ashley and I got on the bus to the light rail with a whole group of other AmeriCorps folk but ended up getting on the train after theirs. Which was nice. We all agreed that we preferred smaller groups (more organization, less petty drama/arguments of where to go when). We ended up just wondering around a bit and came across a place for lunch, ate, and wondered around some more and headed back to campus in time for dinner. After dinner Michala and I braved the insane altitude change and went for a lil run. It was pretty brutal, hoping to improve by next week at least.

Today we had a campus standards meeting in the morning with our unit. Basically a meeting going over our handbook and the importance of it. At the meeting, we all had the opportunity to introduce ourselves, telling everyone where we are from and why we are here now. After that we headed into Denver with our teams for a tour of the capital building, and a mini tour of Denver for the rest of the day.

State Capital Building. They took us all the way to the top where we got a pretttttty nice view of the city. It was pretty sweet, not gonna lie.

City and County Building with the CO flag. Taken from the top of the Capital Building.