WHOA!!!

May 13, 2009 - 8:25 PM

This has probably been one of the craziest weeks I have had since starting college. I have had meetings like crazy with starting this internship, but it was nothing because I have basically no homework. Well now I'm VP for Planning for College Success for the NSCS group I'm involved with. Now I have training meetings and meetings for that so I can learn how to do that for next year. I'm super excited about it and it's great to be busy, but it is a little bit of an adjustment after having hardly anything to do. I don't know the last time I watched a movie. I have thought about it often, but I just have not watched one. I guess it's because I have been reading a lot lately. I love reading. It relieves stress for me and I feel like I get to escape the real world and jump into a more favorable one. Anyway, it's nice to be busy. I feel like I'm doing good work too. Being VP means I'll be helping get tutors for the schools, mainly middle school, around Eugene and Springfield. I am a very big advocate of going to college and school in general so I will feel like I am making some sort of contribution in making sure that kids continue. The schools around here, especially the ones I'll work with in Springfield, pull from a wide area of the poorer community. My middle school was the same way so I feel like I'll be able to connect with the kids on some level or other. I will, of course, make as much time in my schedule as I can to help the kids. I'm not sure how great I am at tutoring, but middle school was pretty easy for me. I think it is just as important to have someone, other than family, that believes in you. Sometimes that is all someone needs to feel like they can do anything they put their minds too. I honestly can't wait to help in any way I can. I think it might fill some void within me. I have always tried to do what I can to help kids, especially when it comes to school. If I can touch or help just one student I will feel so awesome. Ah, I need to move on, I'm starting to feel all teary eyed.

Well a short little update. I know I mentioned the walk and knock that a group of people from the internship I'm involved with did. Well I didn't know exact numbers, but I knew they were high. We got a nice update last week at our meeting. We collected 983 pounds of food. Food for Lane County said that would feed 756 people! I really feel good about doing that. I went out and spent two measly hours walking around and helped feed people. It is an amazing feeling. They said it was one of the biggest donations they have got. They asked how we did it. They were amazed that just about 20 people collected all this. Normally donations that large come from drives led by churches or schools or some other large organization. We were just students here that were willing to get up a little earlier than normal on a Saturday and spend two hours walking around Eugene for food for others. There is a certain satisfaction that comes from this, but I can't put it into words. I would say that everyone should do stuff like that. It is something you will never regret and something that will make you feel so amazing. Well homework calls. So until next time...