CI Day!

Exhaustion and altitude has finally taken its toll on me. Last night I was out at 8pm and officially in bed at 9pm. Needless to say I was a bit under the weather. By mid day yesterday I had no voice, so I stopped singing. I have a cough that won't let me be and I think it's from my asthma and the altitude and my need to use my inhaler A LOT more. And then I've had a bit of a headache for the last several days. So last night, my host mom gave me some meds and I was out really early. Unfortunately, I was up this morning at 4:30am to write my internship application- which I finished and hope I am accepted for one of my choices. The day yesterday overall was a blur because of the way I was feeling but it consisted of the cast photo and headshots, presentations and blocking for the show. Our presentation was about how to spark us into action for not only community impact days but outside of UWP. We had a local leader from Colorado speak yesterday about his actions during hurricane Katrina. His story about the Rocky Mountain Relief was amazing and it was nice to hear the process he went through t accomplish what he did. Anyways that was yesterday.

Today was our very first community impact day. I with about 25 other students went to volunteer at the World Vision warehouse. World Vision's mission is to provide support to those communities in need around the world. They have a three goal system that they work with while working with each community. These three things are Social, Physical, and Spiritual Transformation. World vision is a Christain based network, but strives to help anyone in need. We broke up into two different groups. One group worked with packaging up school and office supplies to send to needy communities while our group of about 12 worked with sorting and repackaging medical supplies. Our project today was very humbling overall and for me, once again put me in my place of how easily we take things for granted. I know that I strive to be a good person but I also know that I don't think about those less fortunate everyday but today was not one of those days. I got a lot of opportunity today to think about what we were doing will eventually help others survive when they have a medical emergency- all the way down to the bandaids we packaged up. After our CI (community impact)we went back to the college to talk about our days and how we can use this expereince in our own lives and communities.

That was about it for the day. Dad made an awesome dinner tonight and I tried a grilled PB and J sandwich for the first time ever. It was soo good! We also had tomato soup with sausage and gnocci pasta. Mmmm!

Tomorrow we are staying late to watch Al Gore's movie the Inconvenient Truth so it is likely I won't be posting anything tomorrow. I will talk to you all soon!

Have a great night and stay healthy!!!