Flying all night form Sao Paulo and arriving early into New York I was able to catch a 7:30 flight out of Kennedy to Orlando. Arriving in Orlando shortly after 10am it was a quick drive home, say hello to my golden retriever, change of cloths, quick look at e-mails grab some lunch and within 2 hours of being in Orlando we were headed north in the car to Tallahassee.
You remember my story on Jet Lag? Well here we go again, being up all night from flying here I was driving to Tallahassee like a zombie, lucky for me, or the other drivers on the road, I would not be driving, I was a passenger.
In between dozing of for 15 to 30 minutes at a time it was a pretty enjoyable ride north. One of the thing I was thinking about was the first time I visited Florida some 35 years ago when I was a kid, was how green everything was. Heading north through the hills of Ocala and the city of Gainesville the scenery was definitely green, with all the rain Florida was getting this year I do not think the landscape could have been any greener.
Florida State University Tallahassee Florida
Arriving in Tallahassee around 4:30 we went and checked out my daughters new apartment while she is going to school at Florida State University. Boy the school has changed a lot since the last time I was here 25 years ago. I did not attend FSU, since I graduated from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, but I lived here in Tallahassee when I started my flying career and I was flying for Providence Boston Airlines (PBA).
Friday was a early getup, even though I had managed to get about 9 hours of sleep, thus recouping some of my lost sleep from the night before.
Today was orientation for new fall students and parents starting at Florida State for the first time. Starting at 8:am some 400 students and parents registered then saw a film on the history of FSU, then of course were talked through our first lesson of the school fight song.
By 11am we were headed out the door for our walking tour of the campus, I was pretty impressed with the layout and size of the campus, even though I got my University degree almost 30 years ago I was excited. I don’t know, it feels like when you walk through these places of higher education and think about the learning going on that I feel like I want to do it all over again.
Landis Green and Landis Hall Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida
I think my daughter was both nervous and excited for moving out of the house for the first time and coming to this great university to learn. Me, I think I was excited for her but also jealous, I was ready to do it all again.
After a day at Florida State with my daughter having her schedule for the fall semester, we left Tallahassee for the 5 hour drive back to Orlando. The next month will find her gathering and figuring what she wants for her new apartment as she will move in and start classes at Florida State during the last weeks of August.
