I hate technology
Okay. After many hours of battling the forces of my WAY out-of-date computer and dial-up internet, I bring you a presentation - which I really hope you watch after all this - of the process of fixing up our youth center.
For those of you who haven't been reading my blog this past year, we (myself, my NGO partner, and our local youth council) fixed up an old, unused book deposit -- left unopened since the USSR (and having the dust to prove it) -- into a youth resource center. Many of you donated funds for this project - including Returned Peace Corps Volunteers - New Jersey, Holy Angels and St. Andrew's.
Last Friday was the opening, and it was FABULOUS. The center is amazing - and completely done by the kids, every last detail from the sign over the door (the girl who wrote it wrote "Peace to all who enter HERE" and put the emphasis on the word here not on the word peace), to the pencil holders (old coffee cans that they decorated). The opening was a really happy and very warm day. Yes, government officials and important people (peace corps included) came. But my favorite part was talking to the parents of the kids from our youth council.
Anyway, I hope to put up pictures of how the final center looks this week - and pictures of the opening ceremony! But for now, you will have to deal with this video - it is of the process of creating this center. We showed it at the opening because we wanted people to know two things: 1) how horrible the building was when we began and 2) how much work the youth actually did.
There is actually a more up-to-date version of this power point - converted-into-a-film, that includes all the last minute scrambling around we did the last day before we opened the center. We finished all the work with 16 minutes to go before the opening. That's how we do it... :) However, I failed to save the up-to-date version, so you have to settle for this version. Don't worry though, I will put up the pictures of the center opening and the work we did the last day some time this week.
I hope you enjoy. (you don' t need popcorn, it's only 6 minutes).
For those of you who haven't been reading my blog this past year, we (myself, my NGO partner, and our local youth council) fixed up an old, unused book deposit -- left unopened since the USSR (and having the dust to prove it) -- into a youth resource center. Many of you donated funds for this project - including Returned Peace Corps Volunteers - New Jersey, Holy Angels and St. Andrew's.
Last Friday was the opening, and it was FABULOUS. The center is amazing - and completely done by the kids, every last detail from the sign over the door (the girl who wrote it wrote "Peace to all who enter HERE" and put the emphasis on the word here not on the word peace), to the pencil holders (old coffee cans that they decorated). The opening was a really happy and very warm day. Yes, government officials and important people (peace corps included) came. But my favorite part was talking to the parents of the kids from our youth council.
Anyway, I hope to put up pictures of how the final center looks this week - and pictures of the opening ceremony! But for now, you will have to deal with this video - it is of the process of creating this center. We showed it at the opening because we wanted people to know two things: 1) how horrible the building was when we began and 2) how much work the youth actually did.
There is actually a more up-to-date version of this power point - converted-into-a-film, that includes all the last minute scrambling around we did the last day before we opened the center. We finished all the work with 16 minutes to go before the opening. That's how we do it... :) However, I failed to save the up-to-date version, so you have to settle for this version. Don't worry though, I will put up the pictures of the center opening and the work we did the last day some time this week.
I hope you enjoy. (you don' t need popcorn, it's only 6 minutes).
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on Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 8:11 PM.
