Yes, I am supposed to be catching up on my school work after not being there for two weeks because of work experience. But I thought it would be more fun to post instead. I will give an update on how things went at the office. From the moment I stepped into the office, to the last day, it was amazing. This has definitely confirmed my choice in career change. It really helped, I think, that my principle lawyer had taught me Family Law in the summer. She knew what I was capable of and knew that I was pretty good. (not to toot my own horn or anything) It worked out that she had a brand new client the very day that I started there. I got a taste of what it is like to go through an emergency motion, to preparing a lot of the documents that need to go with it. I got to feel the stress of the deadlines, and going to the court house to file those documents. They entrusted me to complete bank deposits, I was able to deal with persistent clients in a professional manner. I did make a couple mistakes, but not huge mistakes that couldn't be rectified so that was good. I really felt like I meshed right in and have been there forever, after two weeks, it really felt weird to leave. All in all it was a great experience. I got a glowing letter to the coordinator of our program on top of that. I consider myself fortunate for picking this placement, after speaking with a friend of mine from class, she was at a large firm and her job was to (as she puts it) photocopy, stamp and file documents all day.
Now it is time to get back into the groove of school.

Adoption news: Referrals will be coming out this week, prediction is that the CCAA will get to October 14th 2005 or so. So that is where we are at, waiting and waiting and waiting but we will get there.

This is a picture of my nephew when the whole family got together over Christmas. I forget who he charmed to haul him back up the hill.