My daughter took her last final yesterday. Tomorrow I take a vacation day
so that her girls’ choir at Harker can come over for an end-of-year swim party.
Today, she and I took a few hours to practice taking CalTrain and BART trains
to San Francisco from San Jose. Jessica has a part-time unpaid summer internship
at the EFF – Electronic Frontier Foundation –
which starts Monday. She is very excited to be working in an area she cares a
great deal about. EFF is in San Francisco’s Mission district so we needed to try out
the public transit route to be sure she knew where to go, what it cost, and how long
it took.
We had been advised that the 16th & Mission BART station was a little “colorful” so
we got off at 24th & Mission. We walked to EFF then wandered around the neighborhood.
Jessica and I ate some pastry at a paneteria, did some shopping (3 formal dresses
for $20 at Thrift Town), then I participated in a work conference call on my cell phone
while sitting on the BART station plaza bricks in the sun among the pigeons.
After the call, we ate lunch at a taqueria featuring a delightful mural of the Virgen
de Guadalupe on the wall, and took the train home. It was a good trip and I think
Jessica feels more sure of her way.
My own summer intern started on Monday. Shilpam will be supporting the SEED program
between her Harker high school graduation and starting as a Freshman at Cal Berkeley.
She was our intern last summer too and did a fine job.
KatysBlog 