Waterwings
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Well, myself and the two teachers I traveled with returned from our workshop in Louisville yesterday afternoon. Arrived at the hotel on Sunday around 5pm, got our rooms and went to the hotel restaurant to get something to eat. Got up Monday morning, found the college (12 miles from the hotel :roll: , and finally got started. The workshop was okay, but not what we were expecting. Each of us (about 13 people total from different areas attended) had a computer to use, and we got started. The workshop topic was Geospatial Information Systems :shock: , and we learned how to overlay demographic information over maps (country, state, county, town). Not what we were expecting. The problem was that the instructor moved through the lesson quicker than the computer server could keep up to load the information as we progressed through the required information he was relaying to us. The instructor wrote the program/lesson so I guess he was used to it, lol. It was informative, but I guess I need more time to log stuff into my brain. Class adjourned around 3pm and we returned to the hotel. Decided to get something to eat and found an O'Charley's and had a decent meal. Left the restaurant and had to scrape the windshield so we could see where we were going. Got up Tuesday morning and it had snowed, and the highways were iced. We made an adult decision to not attend the day's lesson at the college and headed home. The teachers from the other high school in our district decided to stay for half a day of lessons. The roads were a piece of crap with snow and ice, and at times we had only 1/2 a lane to travel in (right side tires on pavement, left tires on ice). Speeds did not reach above 45mph until we were about 50 miles from home, then the roads were a little better. Schools around here have been out since Monday afternoon due to the snow and ice. We'll probably hear from our administrators for not attending the second day, but we were the ones who had to travel 3 hours home on the icy roads, and another front was predicted, which we were not going to caught in. I'm just glad to be home, and after we go to school tomorrow and Friday we're out for Christmas break until Jan. 3rd.