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08/30/2009 10:14:40 AM
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My senior year has officially begun. Fall semester began yesterday and our sleepy summer campus is now buzzing.
This semester I am taking:
* Digital Imaging (basically digital photography)
* Professional Writing
* Technical Writing
* The Forum (the school newspaper)
* Directed Study: Religious Rhetoric
This year I am an RA (Resident Advisor) in Stock Hall. I have three roommates who I adore and my room is finally all decorated.
I love the first few weeks of school. All of my friends are back on campus and everyone is excited for school again. ASWC has already had lots of fun events and there is actually at least one event planned every day until mid September!
Well, I am off to hang with my little sis (through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah) and then help with the upperclassmen BBQ hosted by the RAs!
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07/06/2009 4:36:25 PM
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I started my Development/Event Planning internship at the Girl Scouts of Utah in early June and each day I am there confirms that I am, in fact, in the right place.
A couple weeks ago as I sat at my desk editing a letter for a donor and organizing table tents and name tags for our big golf tournament, one of my supervisors came running out yelling, "Where's my team!?" (meaning all of us in development). I turned around and she and the grant writer were dancing. Dancing. A lot. Then I learned why - they had just received a $60,000 donation, which will be able to purchase half of the cost of a cabin for the girl scout summer campers.
But what brought a smile on my face was the fact that they were excited not just about getting money, but about the use of it - the possibilities of it for the girls they work so hard for each and every day. They were thrilled for the girls.
Nonprofit is the only way to go for me if I ever have a career with any sort of business or organization. What a blessing to be immersed in such a giving-oriented atmosphere every day of the week.
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07/06/2009 4:33:15 PM
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These words by Maya pretty much describe my heart in regards to travel and the world. I read lots of Maya on my way to Europe, and these words in particular resonated most. And then, on my way back to the US - after almost three weeks of immersion into a vast array of cultures - I read these great words again. And the second time there were so many more layers of understanding that came along with it...
"Passports to Understanding" by Maya Angelou
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
It is necessary, especially for Americans, to see other lands and experience other cultures. The American, living in this vast country and able to traverse three thousand miles east to west using the same language, needs to hear languages as they collide in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
A tourist, browsing in a Paris shop, eating in an Italian ristorante, or idling along a Hong Kong street, will encounter three or four languages as she negotiates the buying of a blouse, the paying of a check, or the choosing of a trinket. I do not mean to suggest that simply overhearing a foreign tongue adds to one's understanding of that language. I do know, however, that being exposed to the existence of other languages increases the perception that the world is populated by people who not only speak differently from oneself but whose cultures and philosophies are other than one's own.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.
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