Class is over; all that's left is the drive home tomorrow morning.

For a class that cost $3,000, it's amazing to me how much of it some of the other students missed. The class ran eight hours a day for four days, although with breaks and lunch our actual time in class was closer to six hours each day. One of the twelve students scheduled Friday as his travel day; he didn't even show up the last day, missing a fourth of the course. There were a couple others who were consistantly late -- not a minute or two, but ten, twenty or thirty minutes every day. One of the guys scheduled his flight two hours before the scheduled end of the class. I guess it would have bothered me more if the instructor had waited around for these people, but he didn't, which the rest of us greatly appreciated.

Justin did an awesome job of driving Johnny and I around this week. Tuesday we had dinner at Crystal's Pizza. Wednesday we ate at Gloria's, a Salvidorian restaurant. Thursday Justin and I ate at a small Vietnamese restaurant, and tonight the three of us ate at Chipotle's, a place that serves giant burritos. Great food every night.

Speaking of food, if you ever have the chance to take a training class at a MicroTek facility, by all means do so. Not only were the employees friendly and helpful, but they offered free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks. The training rooms also had nice Dell computers with Internet access and free wifi throughout the training center. Very pleasant experience. </end commercial>

Everything's packed up now, ready to go in the morning.