Hi All,
Today Palm Sunday marks the start of holy week. This evening we had a nice student mass to observe the start of this holy week for Catholics all over the globe.
This past week was super crazy. Which started off with Lisa Ballantine, the founder of the organization called FilterPure came to campus. On Monday night some of us that went to Haiti last year got to go out to dinner with her and that was great to her more about her organizations work and where she sees her organization going in the future. Then after a very delicious dinner at Brio (I must say there mini desserts are really good :) I had this strawberry cheesecake one) Lisa went to give a presentation to the student body at Rockhurst. We had about 60 people come to talk which was a really good turn out for an SAB (Student Activities Board) event! SAB was even nice even to provide snacks at the event. The talk was really well received She spoke about following your passion and being open to where ever God might take you in life. She told the story of how she re engineered the filter design and has been able to distribute over 60,000 filters to date (pretty amazing if I must say so myself). If you want to learn more about the Rockhurst efforts with FilterPure I invite you to check out www.filterpurefilters.org/ru.htm. If you click on the FilterPure logo on that page you will be taken to their main site where you can learn more about FilterPure as well.
Lisa stayed through Tuesday when we had Karokee for a Cause which is sponsored by Voices for Justice. The event features various organization on campus singing, all for a good cause. This year Filter Pure was the beneficiary of the event. We raised like $900+ at that event. Considering the water filters produced by filter pure cost only $35 per one that is a lot of water filters that will be able to be distributed to the region in Haiti we are working in.
On Friday I got an internship offer for this summer which is super exciting I will post more details about that down the road.
Ohh by the way Rockhurst just got dumped in with snow. We got about 6 inches of snow over night. It is a little crazy to get a snow storm this last in the year. In Chicago it is normal but in Kansas City I do not think it is quite as normal.
Well I have to get up bright and early tomorrow morning as I register for classes for the fall semester tomorrow at 7am! Being in the honors program a perk is that honors students get to register for classes before all the other undergraduate students. :)
Hope you have a blessed holy week.
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