Last week, a group of students and faculty traveled to Cumberland, Kentucky on the border of West Virginia and Tennessee. The town is run down; there are no jobs, no money, and only a few youth left. It is a place surrounded by a great sadness, but it is still home for the residents of Cumberland. We received the task to make their home a little ( Read more... )

Really good link directing people towards different opportunities to serve!

http://serve.gov/

WARNING: a week from today I am leaving R.I for the year. I will be in Colorado and Georgia for two weeks before I start my Americorp position in North Carolina. Therefore if you want to see me before I go do something about it. The end

 I'm in Charlotte visiting and I feel quite overwhelmed. The downtown area of the city is full of nice buildings and homeless people. I still have not found a house and/or a car therefore I am petrified. I wish I were going back to Hawaii instead. I know this is a horrible horrible attitude to enter this situation with but with recent developements ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how I save my URI e-mail address just for the duration of this summer? Has anyone gotten emails that do not look legitimate about losing your email address if you dont send your account info to some e-mail address that is not a URI address?

I'm moving to North Carolina (downtown Charlotte) in mid July. I will be volunteering for Americorps Vista Campus Compact program. This experience will hopefully be really good for me. This position will set me up for a graduate school acceptance into a college affairs program...or show me that I should not go into college affairs. Yes I'm nervous ( Read more... )

Oh homework........................please GO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I miss swinging on the swings. And really random fun. And Julie. And not having to make really big choices. And Hawaii. 

I was accepted into the Monterey Bay program in Monterey Bay California for Americorps! Im not sure if im going to accept yet or not but as of now I am leaning towards a yes. Anyone want to visit me in california?????

This is a really informative quiz if you are interested in figuring out which canidate supports your beliefs!
vhttp://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html