Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

Imagine my disappointment when I arrived in Atlanta the Friday BEFORE NECC began to attend the Edublogger Con and NECC, and Edublogs was experiencing major difficulties!! I did not blog any of the sessions I had wanted too. It really is okay though because I discovered much of my conference time was spent being “star-struck” by being elbow to elbow with a lot of the bloggers I read!! I will share soon. I am currently in Chicago for a short vacation and to get my oldest moved from a dorm into an apartment. We bought a seven day CTA pass so we can go anywhere in the city via the bus or the El (sp?) and practiced by riding a shuttle to O’Hare airport, and then the El to a restaurant near our hotel. We will only stay in the hotel one night, since tomorrow afternoon (yes, Sunday PM–I am so shocked!) is time to move in. We will spend the rest of our trip in the apartment getting it set up. It is right across the street from the main campus area of his school, so it passed the mom-safety test–at least as much as it could for being so far away from home! I am begging my family to go to Willow Creek Church tomorrow morning. We’ll see how that goes. I don’t know a whole lot about the city. I feel like a Beverly Hill Billy visiting the city!! I am also having problems with the SCASL Blog, and since I’m still traveling, haven’t had time to really address that either. I hope to post more thoughts tomorrow.

Update: We didn’t gt to visit Willow Creek, so my weekly worshhip was via my ipod and Seacoast Church out of Charleston. They offer their services via iTunes, and they are really relevant to my life when I can’t get to church at West End.