From Panama.
From Boston.
From Colorado.
I now have two weeks to be a bum.
My summer has really been an amazing one. I got to spend a lot of time with a wonderful group of kids in Panama. It was all worth that minor accident in the doctor's office. It rained everyday, which was just awesome. Some kids from my church even SHOWERED in the rain .. soap and all. We played a bunch of pato, pato, ganzo, also. One night, we stayed in a village, and slept in their huts. (No walls. Just a roof.) They gave us tattoos that were specific to the village.
It took 20 hours of flying to get from Panama, to Newark, to LAX, to PHX, to Boston. Don't ask why I flew that way, because it made no sense. But Boston was pretty neat. We watched some pretty lame (but brave) street performers, and ate really good food (which we had to eat standing up) Also, as is shown in our most recent Neek Talk, we went to a few colleges along the way. :)
NYC was pretty awesome. It was held at CSU, so we had to walk a billion miles every day - back and forth between our dorms and Moby. With over 3,600 youth, it was difficult to find friends among the crowds. NYC held a "Regnuh" Walk. (Turning hunger around) which was 5k. My friends and I walked it, and a lot of people ran it. After the walk was walked, and offering for The Food Crisis Fund was collected, we raised a total of over $84,000. There were also Service Projects we could participate in. The group I signed up for went to a nursing home and talked to the people there.
Every morning and evening, we had different speakers talk about different things. Also, we had Ken Medema write a song / sing for us. The comedy pair, Ted and Lee put on a performance for us, which left me laughing so hard, I cried.
I also met a ton of people at NYC .. partly because I knew NOBODY before I went. Nobody at all. Even the people I would be spending 22 hours on a bus with (there, and back). But 44 hours of a bus later, I have a lot of good friends. :)
I've also been reading a book called "The Irresistable Revolution" by Shane Claiborne. It went perfectly with NYC's theme: "Come and See."
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