view from my hotel room - cute little western city streets and beautiful mountains in the background.
my new friend katie and our big beers. so...beers are plentiful here. my posse has gone to a different bar every night and had some awesome local beers. sure this is the mormon capital of the world, but there's also a pretty normal-people social scene.
based on this view alone, i understand why brigham young decided to stop here. i also learned that the REAL reason he stopped here was that the valley where salt lake city is was neutral territory between four indian tribes' land and he could populate it without making the native americans angry. pretty strategic, that brigham.
tomorrow is the last day of the reading, and unlike in pretty much every year in the past (to hear the talk at the lunch tables), the AP government reading is going slower than anticipated and we'll probably be kept all the way until 5pm. UGH. two years ago when i was here we were released before lunch on the last day. i don't know if i have another 275 essays in me (that's how many i read today).
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