So last time Benny and I left you, we had just gotten back from Chicago. Since then, Benny has added around 1,000 more miles... he's a trooper. I love Benny dearly, and I hope nothing ever happens to him.
Last week, the interns got to go on tours of different John Deere facilities. Monday we went to the Parts Distribution Center in Milan, IL. This place is HUGE and this is where parts leave to go to dealerships and factories when they are in need of parts.
Tuesday we went to Harvester Works in Moline where they make combines. And not just any combines... combines on steroids. Going to these different facilities makes me realize how small Seeding actually is. Below is a picture of the display combine... and I'm in the picture for reference (it looks more impressive when someone who is vertically challenged stands in front of it).
Tuesday after work Benny and I left for Peoria. I made it in time to visit the admissions office and got to see all of the faces there that I miss so much! That night wasn't full of anything really exciting... except for a Microeconomics exam! Woot woot!
But Wednesday... we celebrated America! I woke up and went to good ol' Walmart to get ingredients to make this dip I found on Pinterest. (http://pinterest.com/pin/271975264967181217/) It ended up being really good! Yay for Pinterest! A friend was having a party in Ptown, so that's where Benny, the dip and I were headed! It was fun to see a bunch of people from school and hang out, grill out, and then go swimming in the pool. I ended up throwing this football back and forth across the pool with another group of people hanging out for most of the time that I was out there. That's relevant because for the next 5 days I could feel my arm, shoulder, and upper back from throwing that darn football. Oy vey. The fourth was overall a huge success and it was fun to see people who I hadn't been able to in a while.
Because the fourth was in the middle of the week, I had to go back for work on Thursday... so I left Ptown at 5 A.M. I had to WAIT for Starbucks to open before I left. Thursday at work we went to Davenport Works to see the construction and forestry factory in the Quad Cities. I had gotten to see that factory last summer, so it was cool to go back and see what had changed.
Friday I went on a bigger adventure to a factory a little farther away - I went to Waterloo, IA along with 4 other interns and got a tour of both Tractor Cab Assembly Operations and Drive Train Operations. Below are a few pictures outside of TCAO, which I think are pretty fun. (Don't mind the boots... they're kind of ugly).
After I got done with the tours and we drove back, I hopped straight in the car to head for Somerset, Wisconsin. Just for the record, I'm pretty sure this is the farthest north I've been in the midwest, and was the first time I had ever been in Minnesota. I went with 10 other interns from Deere to camp by Apple River. It was a lot of fun - we camped Friday night and then woke up and went floating down the river. Because it was a holiday weekend, it was hoppin. There were a lot of people there and it was fun to talk to people from all over. One of the best conversations was talking about different vocabulary that people use... like what I call a casserole, Minnesotans call a "hot dish" and down in Texas (and a lot of southern states) when you ask for a "Coke" you have to specify which type of coke... here Coke means a Coca-Cola. Different things like that - it was fun. We camped out on Saturday night as well and then drove home on Sunday. It was a long weekend and I had so so so much fun! (AND I only got a bit of a sunburn... and just on the front of my legs, so that's cute). We stopped off to get corn from a farmer and I was hoping it lived up to Indiana corn... I should just stop getting my hopes up. I miss Indiana corn.
Monday was an interesting day... I tried to sign into my email but I had changed my email password and forgot what I changed it to... and I forgot the answers to my security questions (that I made freshman year)... so I drove back to Peoria to visit the lovely Help Desk and change my password. I had dinner with Cara! Guess where! Nope! Wrong... NOT One World. We went to Panera instead! I then sat an office hour and a friend brought Cara and I ice cream from Ice Cream Shack, which pretty much made the night. I then had to drive back that night for work the next morning.
The past three days at work have just been hectic and I have been working a lot... a lot a lot. I had some different Econ things due, so I haven't been doing much else. OH! Except for volleyball! We won one of the three games we played yesterday! And the funny part... only two people from our team showed up and the other two that we played with were just nice enough to play with us! So now our winning percentage is a whopping 17%. Yeah buddy!
As for what's coming up, there's only one thing I can think about. I will be jumping out of a plane on Saturday. Yes folks, I will be going skydiving. I'M SO EXCITED!! That'll be in the next post!
So. I hope everyone is doing well and having a relaxing summer!
With love until next time,
Rachel and Benny
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