you can never truly know someone, or know them anymore than what they decide to let you see. yet, we are so quick to judge and so slow to trust. you see the beautiful woman walk by, perfect hair, beautiful clothing, so well put together, yet deep inside she's trying to hold it all together. you see the guy walk by with the perfect smile, great ( Read more... )

What is it about life -- my life -- that makes everything so complicated. I finally found a love that surpasses any other, but I'm not sure finding it has made anything better. Change is inevitable. Life, as we know it, is certain to end. It's about the way we live it, the journey, that leads to the destination. My bestfriend, my soulmate. I'm ( Read more... )

I planned on writing out everyday of the trip, but I haven't gotten around to it...so, in case I don't get to it, I'll write out the highlights. Eh team is AWESOME. Some of the best people I have met in my life. We met Dwayne White and toured Ford Field. We ate at Cyprus in Greektown. The girls at Vista Maria taught us to step. We finished the ( Read more... )

We had to wake up around 6:30am! Panera donated breakfast for us (bagels, donuts/sweet stuff, coffee). After breakfast, we broke off into our teams (yay Eh team!) and left for our sites. Today was our first day at Vista Maria!!! The place was beautiful, it looks like a really nice gated school. We met Wendy (the head of the volunteer program at ( Read more... )

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Woke up at 6:30am (the normal wake-up time for the whole trip), had breakfast, and started OPERATION ADVENTURE. Operation adventure is this really cool event UMD does. We were split into groups and had different activities to do at each station. The first station we did, we learned a bunch of random games (that don't require anything but people to ( Read more... )

Friday afternoon I left for Detroit, MI on a bus at about 4:00pm. The total time for the trip was to be 25 hours! I was expecting the bus to be empty since I thought it would be pretty random to ride a bus up to MI from FL. BUT when I got on there, the bus was packed. So I ended up sitting next to this Bob Marley- wannabe. He was asleep for the ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for Detroit today and I won't be back until March 2. This trip couldn't have come at a better time. I need a break from EVERYTHING and mostly, everyone I've been hanging around with lately. I'm most excited to not have any form of communication with anyone but the people that will be working with me up in Detroit.

went to Chris Tomlin yesterday (Jan 31st).....most AMAZING concert of my life! went with Jessie & Kelly :)

-Jan 31...Chris Tomlin Concert ( Read more... )