Destination: Rochester, MI

Duration: 11-12 hours.

My parents drove with me and we took two days to drive up here. The drive through Virginia and West Virginia was beautiful. A couple things I learned: don’t drive through Detroit during rush hour traffic and don’t listen to your GPS when driving through a construction area or decides to take you around the block for no reason. When we got to Detroit it happened to be late in the day and had a lot of traffic. At one point the GPS took us through a detour and led us to the Canada border. It gets confused sometimes here, but I’ve learned when to listen to it and when to not. As you can imagine, it was really frustrating/stressful at the moment, but when I look back now it is kinda funny.

I’m living in the dorm at Oakland University. My neighbor or suite-mate is from Staten Island New York and is here doing an internship too; she seems really nice. The people here are really friendly and most have strong northern accents. The area I’m living in is a really nice community right outside of Detroit. I'll be working for the Health Department in Pontiac, but really I'll be driving all around the county doing water quality inspections and other assignments. One thing I noticed around here is a lot of the roads are in really bad shape. I guess due to the snow in the winter time. The roads are really weird. At a lot of intersections you can't turn left so you have to turn right and make a u-turn. It's a little annoying.

I start work tomorrow. So far its been good. I'll post some pictures once I get a chance!