Spring Class Schedule

I just registered for Spring classes. I am most excited about the tax clinic. Only 8 students per semester get selected for this course! My spring classes:

Personal Income Tax
Will Estates & Trust II
Tax Clinic
Modern Remedies
First Amendment

Music Videos of home

These are some of my favorite Music videos filmed in San Diego. They are consoling when I'm bummed out by the North East freeze fest out here. The Dashboard video is filmed at the Hotel del Coronado and the Switchfoot videos is at a SoCal beach, I'm not sure which one, but definately reminds me of Oceanside Pier. SD, I'll see you at Christmas!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epHN4uSHox0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_E7xS7AtQ

Fall Happenings

I am convinced that Fall is the best season to be in Boston. The weather has been more moderate, sunny and generally more pleasant than any other season this year so far. The past couple weekend Brittany and I have spent showing visiting friends/family around boston, apple picking in Harvard, MA and visiting Salem.

Brittany and I at the Paul Revere Mall in the North End

Me, Brittany, Parker and Kate at Acorn Street on Beacon Hill

Harvard, MA

Brittany and I walking towards the Old North Church in the North End

Kate, Parker, Brittany and I sitting in a pew in the Old North Church

Surf & Turf

My good friend and violin teacher David Truscott hosted a Surf & Turf dinner last night. We had Steak, Lobster, Sweet Potatoes and cheesecake and icecream and watched the Office and SNL Thursday up-date. It was an awesome night!

Last week I began a new internship at the Suffolk County District Attorney's office (Boston). I will be working for the appellate division assisting ADA's (Assistant District Attorney) with appellate briefs. The position gives me the opportunity to develop my legal research, writing and analytical skills with a focus on criminal law. I'll be arguing for the State in opposition of convicted person's appeal to set asside judgment. I'm currently starting out on drug possession cases. I'm really looking forward to working there and getting a perspective of law in the public sector.

School Starts Again!

After a long summer in Boston, I have officially begun my 3rd year of law school. Since I failed to post anything on my blog this summer, I thought I'd make a "Top 10" list of the most noteworthy things I did, or things that happened this summer.

10. Got to visit my former mission companion, Nathan King, in Connecticut where he now lives. 45 mins away!
9. Went on a day trip to Hampton Beach, New Hampshire with Brittany, Spencer, Emily and Christian. Got to go swimming, skim boarding and went to Portsmith for dinner. An awesome day!
8. Got my spring semester grade - Straight B+'s and Deans list!
7. Having my mom visit Boston for the Forth of July week. We did numerous tours and museums and watched the Boston Pops concert with Rascall Flatts at the Hatchshell, surviving a torrential rain storm.
6. Trip to Washington DC to visit David Truscott. We got to see all the monuments, including the Holocaust Museum and a trip to the DC temple.
5. Portland, Maine with the Ian & Whitany Dawson and Brittany. The lighthouse there was amazing!
4. Seeing the Red Sox at Fenway park on Labor Day Weekend with my friend Aaron Birch
3. Trip to Montreal with Ian and Whitney Dawson, my Mom and Brittany. On the way back we came down through NY and got to see the old Fort Ticonderoga. It was amazing!
2. Going to New York City with Brittany and her friends and sisters and staying at the New York Plaza Hotel. Luxury!
1. White-Trash road trip to North Carolina. A group of us left Boston to visit Trisha Cheney's family and got to enjoy Southern Living for a weekend, including getting to see a NASCAR event.

Easter & First Weekend of Spring

Easter weekend was great! On Saturday Brittany & I met up with my San Diego friends Ian and Whitney Dawson and went to Concord to tour the Louisa May Alcott house. The Alcotts lived in this house during the Civil War and is the home where the novel "Little Women" was written and based on.



Later Ian took us to a great sushi resturaunt in Lexington. At one point I got carried away bragging about how much I liked wasabi and got peer pressured into eating a roll with a huge glob of the green stuff. I had fire coming out of my eye sockets! Besides that, though, the food was really good and we all had a fun time hanging out together.



For Easter Gina Paulino invited Brittany, David, me and some other friends from Boston to spend the day with her family down at Cape Cod. Gina's mom made a huge dinner, her dad hid a bunch of easter eggs, and everyone had a really fun and relaxing day.