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it’s 9:56am, do you know where your howard is?

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worst.morning.ever

so i went to a flyers game on thursday night with meghan. despite the bad weather, it was a super fun time. my first time in the wachovia center, and it was an impressive arena. the flyers won with an impressive 5-1 victory over the ottawa senators, but enough about hockey. ‘
i made it home [...]

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1st written reflection

How has your first few months of being a VISTA been as you expected?

Since this is my second year serving at Millersville, I pretty much knew what I was getting into when I started in August. I have the same office, live in the same apartment and have been working with the same staff [...]

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VOLUNTEER FAIR

so much of my life has been taken up by the volunteer fair this fall. we started working on it in June with the help of a PR 4 class. Together, we were able to put together a really amazing event that attracted almost 200 students and 40 community and campus partnernships searching for volunteers.
We [...]

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john herrs’ food drive

We collected 36 boxes of food and $160 in donations at the John Herrs’ food drive on September 28th! All proceeds went to the LCCC Food Bank in Lancaster. We had a total of 23 volunteers throughout the day
Thanks so much to all the volunteers who helped make this happen & John Herrs’ Village Market!!!

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What is your favorite movie line and why?

The Salton Sea: Oh, shit, what is this? Am I dead? Linoleum? This must be hell. Oh no, what a cliché. I’ve had some time to think about it and it’s pretty simple after all. I think it’s like the man said, “Man is the measure of all things.” I should know. I ran the [...]

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What animal, food, or inanimate object would you like to be?

I would like to be something that doesn’t have to think too hard. Something that is generally happy and not too complex. Perhaps a Labrador. I would definitely not want to be a food (who would want to be eaten?!?) nor an inanimate object—that just seems scary- trapped in an unmoving, incommunicable body??? Yikes.
 

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day of caring

i am so proud of how well this event went. after all of the planning and coordinating we had 250 students visit 11 project sites in Lancaster county. although the weather was not quite on our side, it was nothing like the monsoon of last year and most of the projects were able to go [...]

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What do you believe your strengths to be?

I think that many of my strengths lie within my personality. I have the ability to be (or at least appear to be) very friendly and outgoing most of the time. I don’t have a problem accepting others’ ideas and criticisms and I appreciate input on my ideas. I like to work in groups as [...]

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the life of a vista is always crazy

yikes i haven’t written in AGES. lots of things have happened and i will try to fill you in on most of them
after school corps- we started a partnership with the school district of lancaster to try to get more students in to tutor elem, middle and high school. we started small with summer school [...]

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