80 Days of Being a Niner (09 intern):
Spending hours figuring out low ropes at Camp Highland in the north GA mountains, sleeping in shacks without walls, Davis Harwell, 9 hour flights separated by 5 hour layovers in Amsterdam, White Chocolate, catching up on movies in flight on KLM, trekking through Kenya, walking through the Kibera slum, climbing up hills of boulders while carrying 40lb "Jerry" cans of water to get a taste (after they boil the water) of someone else's life, striving to end poverty through Compassion International and the 410 Bridge, getting stuck in the mud on safari, praising God under a blanket of thousands stars, coming within spitting distance of lions, watching hopelessness turn into hope, loading and unloading semi-trucks into the ballroom in PCB, Jenny England, running cables, using gaff tape, folding thousands of shirts, testing mics, registration, operating cameras, taking cues from Director Dixie, officiating rec games, filling water coolers, running the store, inspiring students and leaders to change the life of someone on the other side of the globe, throwing frisbees, answering questions, dancing to Bang Your Mullet during walk-in of the Big Room, running lights, assisting leaders, praying over chairs, security detail, making up code-names to go with the walkie-talkies we get to use on security detail, eating mind-blowing BBQ at Outlaws, staff volleyball games, Jackson Joyner, getting things airbrushed at the PCB Wal-Mart, coffee at Joey's, simon says shenanigans, after-hours Nerf wars in the ballroom, dancing with Daraja, sound-effect theater with the Skit Guys, watching as people walk into camp dead and walk out alive, hiding a surprise for the 2010 Interns in the ceiling of the BBR, jamming on the Death Star.
(read less)80 Days of Being a Niner (09 intern):
Spending hours figuring out low ropes at Camp Highland in the north GA mountains, sleeping in shacks without walls, Davis Harwell, 9 hour flights separated by 5 hour layovers in Amsterdam, White Chocolate, catching up on movies in flight on KLM, trekking through Kenya, walking through the Kibera slum, climbing up hills of boulders while carrying 40lb "Jerry" cans of water to get a taste (after they boil the water) of someone else's life, striving to end...
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