I got into town around 5pm Sunday night. The roads turned out to be not to bad, and I'm glad I waited till Sunday to leave. Anywho, I got into town and had some dinner with Mary-Beth and someone else from work. I'm staying with Mary-Beth who is a journeyman forecaster and has been oh so sweet in giving me a place to stay for the first week of my time in Wichita. So I unloaded my car on the icy pathways and got my room sorted out.
Sleeping last night didn't work for me, my mind kept thinking about things. I was tired, but so anxious. So don't know how much I slept, but it didn't seem like much. I got up and got ready and headed right on into my first day as a Meteorologist!!! YEA!
My first day was good! Filled with paperwork, but good. I met a few more forecasters and learned a bit about things I'm going to be doing in the next couple day. Wednesday I begin the shift work. This is such and amazing opportunity and I'm blessed to have it! I'm so excited, yet it doesn't seem real. I'm sitting there in the office and I still feel like a visitor. No one does anything to make me feel that way, it's just that I've been in and out of offices since 2002, but I've always been a volunteer or visitor. I've learned so much today, and tomorrow bodes to be the same. Good thing I like learning.
Tomorrow will be interesting....as you've probably heard, Oklahoma was slammed by an ice storm sun night into monday morning. Well Wichita is in for that tonight(mon to tues morning). So it will be interesting to see how getting to work in the morning goes.
It's exciting to begin my career as a Meteorologist in the middle of an Ice storm. Crazy times!!!
Picture of the day....
In honor of the Oklahoma Ice storm and the pending/current Ice storm in Wichita, this is a picture of the amount of ice that Kearney got last New Years. Good luck those in Oklahoma, and also those in Kansas!
Much love!
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I'm so excited for you!! Fun times!
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