Wednesday August 20, 2008

It has been far too long of a time for not posting. I feel absolutely horrible and apologize for not keeping this up to date. With the amount of things we are doing, it is hard to find time to keep this updated. So I will sum up the first two weeks in one paragraph and then touch upon a few of the key and exciting things that have occurred along the way. SO here goes nothing.....

I have one word to describe the past two weeks. CHAOS. It has been such a roller coaster the past few weeks. We had training daily for the first week and a half. This meant that everyday we went into the office at 9 am, then having training sessions related to anything from email etiquette to the breakdown of Schools for Schools. and this went on until roughly 6 or 7 everyday with random sporadic 10-15 minute breaks here and there. The first day on the job, IC upheld their expectations by bringing in Jolly Grace Okot to give us the history of the war lesson with Jason and Laren. John Chu, the director of Step Up 2: The Streets also came in for an inspirational talk which ended in a dance off between him, jason, and his friend versus Eugene and Timmy. Many other past roadies have stipped by periodically to see how things have changed, as well as drop on on the new meat.

This past weekend we went to the San Bernadino Mountains to the Thousand Pines Christian Camp and Conference Center for the annual Roadie retreat. It basically went down without a hitch. The Movement Staff came with us which was pretty cool. The icebreakers were pretty fun games of running charades, who knows their RM's the best and which RM's know their roadies the best. It was a pretty interesting time and a great way to get to know the staff a little better. The downside occurred Monday afternoon when we were playing basketball. I landed on Trigg's foot after dunking and sprained my ankle. Margie and Chris ended up taking me to the hospital later on that night to get X-Rays and such. I am in quite a bit of pain because of it and will be in an air cast for 2 weeks with a can to help me get around.

Sooo. I guess you can say we have been busy. On top of all of this training and such, We have been dealing with contacts and booking screenings in our designated regions. I find it quite interesting to be dealing with students who are in the same postion i was in just a year ago or less.