Last Day in the States

Tomorrow we leave for Guatemala! It's been a pretty normal day outside of buying a fanny pack (they're safer to carry). I'm trying to tell myself that it's not as lame as I think, but man, I think it might be.

Anyway,

Back in November I went into Kelly McPhee's office and started the conversation off with, "I have this kind of ridiculous, outrageous idea." I proceeded to tell her that I wanted to take a group of students to Bolivia to serve for the summer. She told me that it wasn't ridiculous at all, and that I should write the proposal for it. I did, she loved it and we began meeting to see what this kind of trip might look.

To make a long story short the trip looks like this: Kelly and I are going to Guatemala to serve with the organization Global Vision International for eight days.

When I graduate from UB (Valedictorian or Summa Cum Laude, please Jesus!) I would like to leave a program behind in which students give a week or two of their breaks to serve domestically and globally. I truly believe that through hardcore, radical service student's perspectives will change for the absolute better! 

This is a limited edition blog. I'm going to chronicle this serve-abroad trip everyday while I'm gone. It's going to be hard and fun and scary and exciting and exhausting, but I know that this is going to be a trip that I remember for the rest of my life (for the good reasons not the scary ones).  Let's go to Guatemala!

P.S. I'm totally going to find the coolest place to plank while I'm gone! Volcano Picaya anyone?!