Tuesday, September 23, 2008

...just on tour.

Thats my friend Cynthia, the beastliest team leader I know. 
Girl is rad. 
She inspires me.

I'm stoked to be home from Africa, I am stoked to be on tour.
I will write about Africa soon. 
I have like a million things to say and even a spoken word piece to transcribe. 
The trip was refreshing and inspiring.
It brought meaning to what I'm doing right now.

This job is so hard but so rewarding.
Unfortunately Beast Coast is on edge right now, only time will tell.
... regardless of the outcome, I love this team.

If life weren't running at 1000 miles an hour I might be able to write more. 




Thursday, September 4, 2008

3 hours until I leave for Uganda.

Had you asked me one year ago if I thought I would be going to Uganda I never would have believed you.  This whole internship has absolutely rocked my world, I am feeling things that I haven't felt before. My East Coast team is amazing, they are my family, we will lean on each other everyday for the next 3 months. The team that is going to Uganda is one of the strongest groups of people I have ever met. I don't even know what to expect. I guess I know that I will go to Uganda and have my heart shaken but how do you prepare for that. 

Today we finally got to see the new documentary, its called GO and it was a super powerful piece of media, I'm honored to share it with students all over the country. After we saw it we had do a mock screening in front of Jason Russell, one of the original filmmakers. That was a bit intimidating. Lucky for us IC is all about your personal story so even though Jason has a very good idea of what he wants we all will gather something else from it. We survived training. I will fly back from Uganda and join the rest of my team while we are in pittsburgh. I'm excited to do so. 

I need to try to grab an hour of sleep before I go. 

Perhaps my next post will have pictures. 

Godspeed.