My friend came out to visit. Well, actually she didn't really come to visit me - she came to do a puzzle hunt. But she nicely squeezed me into her schedule before heading home. Not that it mattered too much: I just saw her about two weeks ago. We have a remarkably geographically unspecific relationship. We've seen each other in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Washington, London, the Bay Area... sometimes all in the same month (well, at least a subset of those places).
So I took her to school with me. I showed her around a bit. I showed her the view from the 12th floor, I showed her the elevators, I showed her my locker... She then showed me that my locker didn't actually lock upon being closed unless the combination was turned. I find myself wishing someone had shown that to me when I'd begun using it a year ago... (How did I never notice this?)
Then I took her to my class on European Union law. She has EU citizenship so she thought it would be interesting. My professor has been going over a lot of introductory material though, making sure that we understand the governmental institutions and the political realities they result from and reciprocally affect. Knowing all that up front gives context to the cases that we will study subsequently. But the consequence of this preparation was that my friend didn't quite get to see a typical law school course. It was more overview lecture than normal, and it wasn't until about 20 minutes left that we started turning to case analysis, which is more emblematic of an American legal education. Of course, American law is more embematic of the typical legal education so there was that difference too.
But I think my friend found it interesting. She's getting a Master's in education, and is apparently studying educational technology right now. She was thus particularly fascinated by my professor's prodigious use of the chalkboard.