Wow, I’ve been delinquent with my posting!

Our first week of classes is now behind us and I’ve found a little time in which to post. This semester is crazy! I have arguably the hardest, most demanding professors for four of my classes and the most abstract touchy-feely professor for my remaining class. Its a tough mix.

His and I are actually pretty excited about this semester (so far). Getting our first semester under our belt and receiving our grades has given us an extra shot of much needed motivation. I’m really enjoy the classes even though I’ve already been cold called in all of them (well, except Contracts, but that class is always the exception) and most of the cases are incredibly interesting. In Crim Law we are reading about when the life of a fetus begins, this should make for some incredibly lively debate. In Con Law we just read a case about a guy who sought an injunction against his law school for failing to admit him and we will soon be embarking on the wonderment that is our first amendment.

Oh, and in lawyering we got to act out an accident. I played the role of a pumpkin falling out of a truck. It was a taxing role, but I’m a firm believer in method acting and I believe my commitment to the part really paid off. In other lawyering news my law firm just made an awesome acquisition. (Our class is divided into law firms, three to a firm.) One person didn’t come back this semester so there was a two person firm. After wining and dining one of the members of the firm (aka the smartest guy in the class) he decided to join our firm. And just in time for our first big project! Maybe I should go into mergers and acquisitions.

We’ve been thinking a lot about what we were going to do this summer. Logic and reasoning says “get a job; make some money”. But we’ve done that before and its really not all that fun. We are both enjoying school too much to rush back into the workplace so we’re 98% sure we are heading to Kenya to study for the summer. We’re really excited about this and will be posting more about it as the semester progresses.

We will be taking two classes there. We’ll both be taking Comparative Constitutional Law and I’ll be taking a Family law class which focuses mostly on Women’s rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. I’m not sure what His’ other class is. The program also includes a couple of safaris and a trip to the beach. I can’t wait to go!

We get about 10 days off in the middle of the summer session so you have any great suggestions as to what we could do feel free to post your ideas. Some of the things we’ve thrown around:

• Heading to Egypt to see the pyramids and cruise the Nile (this would be our dream, but its quite pricey to get from Nairobi to Cairo)
• Climbing Mt. Kilaminjaro (this would be great fun too, but it would require some serious training, and I probably wouldn’t be able to walk for a week afterwards…kind of like a rugby game)
• Going to an island resort off the Indian ocean (yeah, that’s probably what we will end up doing. You just can’t beat snorkeling)