Back at Purdue!

Hello its been a while since I've posted! Thats because I've been pretty darn busy. My flight back to the US was quite an adventure. I finally made it to San Francisco after many many delays, long looooong waits in lines.. only to realize that my baggage was still in HK, and I had to wait 14 hours for the next flight to Chicago!!!! Called Johanna in a panic and she said she'd pray for me to St. Anthony, patron saint of lost things. I asked if she knew a patron saint of connecting flights and she said she'd think about it.

As it turned out, I DID manage to get onto an earlier flight, despite being Number 16 on the standby list. And my suitcase DID make it back to me today. So, I guess it does work to pray to St. Anthony!!!! And Johanna also very kindly drove to Chicago to pick me up from the airport. :) She's da best.

Here's some pics from Singapore:

Me and Weiling at Chomp Chomp

Me playing golf at Mandai (Dad taking the picture) Cute little cousin in Purdue tee! (Everyone who has seen this pic says he is toooo cute!)

But yeah, summer vacation is over and its back to work again. I'm busy as can be. I'm taking 4 classes this semester, in addition to a crazy clinic load. I figure since its my last year at Purdue, I'd better learn all that I can. I think my classmates' SIAO-ON attitudes towards learning is rubbing off on me. I never used to be a person who would ever take extra classes or do extra work, but now I'm starting to! ;)

Speaking of which, I should mention that I won an award to attend the ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) Minority Student Leadership conference in Chicago in November! I am very excited. :))

As an MSLP participant, you will participate in a set of leadership-focused educational programs and activities at the Convention. These activities will work to build and enhance your leadership skills; help you gain an understanding of how the Association works; and provide you the opportunity to interact with leaders in the professions of audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech, language, and hearing sciences.

ASHA should be really exciting this year. I think Johanna is presenting a poster and probably several of my professors will be presenting stuff too. A lot of us are probably going since its in Chicago, which is just 2.5 hours away. And I'm looking forward to all the freebies and career fair and exhibits!!!!! Its like the event of the year for speech pathologists. ;)