As required by my English II class, I've chosen a nonprofit organization to become involved with for material and experience to write about.

Today I attended the American Red Cross orientation in Virginia Beach. Unfortunately I had to skip all my classes today because of scheduling conflicts — not that that was a big deal. Apparently, according to another student in the class, our art history professor confused us with another class and showed a movie instead of lecturing — sweet.

The orientation was fairly brief and informative but left me with more questions than answers. I have some idea of what I'm getting myself into but wish I could work in areas I'm actually interested in. I'll expand on that later. We are now waiting for the results of my background check. I hope they don't find out about the dead bodies under the house.