Sunday, April 30, 2006

Weekend Warrior

Guillermo and I by the "Squeeze Inn"
The past 40 hrs have been crazy. Friday night the backpacking class fit ourselves into the school van and drove to Potter Country. After being lost in a State Forest for a while the ever-confident Hibb found the trail head. The hours that followed made me feel like I was living a Backpacker Magazine article: first timers setting up a tent, the “oh, I forgot my toothbrush”, and the scary stories around the fire. We couldn’t have asked for a nicer trail to hike. It was a slight downgrade that followed a mountain creek for miles on end. No wonder they call it “God’s country.”



The "Global Night Commute"

We got back just in time for me to leave for Rochester. I’ve never gone to any kind of political activism event. I’m not sure how much Invisible Children is into activism, but camping with 200 other people in downtown Rochester was cool. By “cool” I mean that the night was a swirl of people talking, cars going by, city lights glaring, and strangers offering to buy donuts and coffee. I took my prayer shift at 5:30 am and we started the 3 mile commute to our van by 6:30.

At the moment I’m pretty worn out, but the weekend was just the break I needed from assignments.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ok listen up. making fun a scared, tired, cold, uncomfortable for hours, girl about not accepting donuts from a strange man off the street at 3 in the morning for her friends that were sleeoing anyway is just wrong.

Anonymous said...

um. that's supposed to say sleeping. not sleeoing. ok. goodnight.

Anonymous said...

That's cool you guys prayed. Obvious, but a good idea our group somehow didn't realize. I had pick-a-date that evening, so some of us came late, after the march and, presumably, letter writing. So we just 'slept' on the concrete under a ledge to avoid the scattered showers.