Time with my sister!

Hi All,

I am so sorry I got so busy last week that I did not get a chance to blog. This has been a fun weekend so far and I thought I would take some time to blog before I get to my homework (aka I am procrastinating a little bit longer). I was so lucky my sister Hannah decided to come and visit me this weekend (she is a senior in high school and deciding on here where should go to college). It was really some great bonding time for us that she decided to come and visit me for the weekend. Last night was SAB’s annual spring concert last night. Jared Nemon and Love & Theft came to play, two country artists for those of you who are not educated on country music. Rockhurst concerts are a lot of fun, normally spring concerts vary on the genre of music that they have for them. The fall concerts are normally the country ones. This year it was reversed. It is a fun way to start and end every school year with a concert! The concert was a little cold with the rain (I am not quite sure why they did not have it inside to be honest but oh well…) So that is the main reason (besides seeing her brother of course that my sister came in).

Then today we went to go volunteer at the Warrior Dash along with others from the honors program. If anyone has not heard of the Warrior Dash you should check it out. It is crazy, not necessarily for everyone but it was fun. Groups can volunteer at the Warrior Dash and they Warrior Dash makes a donation to the organization they are with. It is a certainly a unique volunteer experience.

Yesterday I went to my internship in the morning at Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. I have been there about a month now and I am really enjoying it! It will be nice to still be able to be home this summer while having an awesome internship. I am planning a conference in Chicago that will take place in January of 2014.

 

Well that is the update for now. One more week of classes then finals! Finals week should not be too bad so that is good. I just want it to feel like spring/summer we are so overdue it gets warm then it gets cold again and then warm. Spring temps us so often but has not been here to stay yet. We have also gotten a ton of rain lately.

Oh when I get more time this weekend or sometime this week I will blog about the two honor society inductions I have had this past week and the Nonprofit Senior Lunch I went to on Thursday.

Here is a really good prayer I found:

Lord Give Me Your Strength

Give us your strength, Lord. Because sometimes things get tough, and we are ready to quit.

Give us your love, Lord. Because sometimes people reject us, and we are tempted to hate.

Give us your eyes, Lord. Because sometimes life gets dark, and we lose our way.

Give us your courage, Lord. Because often we are put under pressure, and it’s hard to do what is right.

Give us yourself, Lord. Because our hearts are made for you, and we will not rest until we rest in you.

By Fr. Mark Link, S.J.

Volunteer Management Class...Badges Rock Program

Hi All,

Hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather has been almost perfect here in Kansas City! Believe it or not another week has pasted and we are one week closer to the end of the year! This past weekend has flown bye. I had a fantastic run with a friend of mine this afternoon it was nice to catch up with her. Since we do not really see each other during the week our about weekly runs give us time to catch up. Today we went 6.5 miles. (it was super super windy outside I am not joking either, I come from the windy city so I know what wind is). Anyway, it was like a perfect temp outside to run.

Along the way one thing we discussed was what this type of tree that was budding was that has a "fishy" smell to them. Once I got back and googled "trees that smell bad" I came across it. It is called a Bradford Pear Tree http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/callery-pear-bradford-pear. There seems to be an abundance of these trees around this area. I am still not quite sure why so many of these trees would be planted around here with the smell they admit.

We had a fantastic Volunteer Management Project with the Girl Scouts that will be my next blog entry. It is a busy start to this week but later this week I will post about it. It was an amazing experience.

Below are a few pictures from the weekend. We did a secession on safety for the Girls. These are girls coming from the inner city troops. We has three groups of 60 girls. For this project we planned the program recruited the volunteers and executed the event.

Here are a few pictures below:

The Girl wanted to pin her SWATCH on me instead of pinning 

The Girls are working on making first aid kit to take home with them. They got a badge for going through this.

We made a poster for this activity which we are presenting at the Rockhurst Festival of Student Achievement this week. 

Hope every one has a good week. This weekend a staff member said, "Every girl has the right to safety". Just take a minute to think about it. 

Running and Spring!

               As you can see in my picture below signs of spring are starting to appear on Rockhurst’s campus (the little green things are tulips coming up). Which is exciting for multiple reasons one of those is that spring is a sign of warmer weather. I do not talk about running much in this blog considering how much I love running (I run about 6 days a week for about 4 or more miles per day). For me running is a great stress relief. I started running when I was in 6^th grade and joined the cross country team in 7^th grade. I love being able to run outside.  Going to Rockhurst puts runners like me in a great location because we have the trolley train and loose park so close to campus. The trolley trial is like .75 miles from campus and Loose Park is like 1.5 miles from campus. Running this time of year outside is so enjoyable you do not have to worry about being too hot or too cold.

                While I am on the topic of running my friend and I have taken it upon ourselves to restart running club. I was surprised when I came to Rockhurst my freshman year how many people liked to run. Running club existed for a while my freshman year but then the people running it just got too busy. We had decent attendance at running club my freshman year. So my friend Amy and I are restarting running club we already have over twenty people who have signed up which is really exciting!! We are going to start doing group runs next week. It was really encouraging that we already have people volunteering to lead the runs. As I am sure I have blogged about before there is a 5k on campus that a lot of students participate in. 

Also if you are ever just needing some encouragement and a friendly reminder of how good we have it watch this video. It is the Cancer floor of a children's hospital singing the song stronger. This past week I was talking with a friend about how fortunate we are in life. After that conversation I could not get this video out of my mind.                             

Quote for the Week  

"It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 2 Corinthians 3:5"