First Snow Day in College

So, today March 26, 2009 was my first snow day of college!!

It was exciting but lame at the same time, because it was not announced until noon today, and all my classes end before noon. I also lost about 5 hours of pay from work, because I work for CSU, so if CSU is closed, then I am out of work. :( it was nice not to have to worry about anything though. 

We are expected to get another 2-3 feet tonight, but i am uncertain as it has stopped snowing as of 5 minutes ago. Who knows, but i liked all of the snow, the first big exciting lots of snow storm this season!!! The one over Thanksgiving break doesn't count because it wasn't lots of snow, just lots of ice. 

Here are four photos I took from my bedroom window. There was a reported 7 to 8 inches. 

Bushes outside the window.... the big white blob, is a bush covered in snow

Bush outside the window.... 

Parking Lot

Parking Lot

Whitney Hendrickson 4-13-1990 to 3-17-2009

Marina, Whitney, and Wesley Hendrickson

So, as you all may or may not know Whitney Hendrickson was a 2008 IB Graduate from Palmer High School. She passed away Tuesday March 17, 2009 through a horrific and tragic accident because of a careless driver. A car crashed into a truck which then hit the gas pump, where Whitney was filling up her van. She was then pinned in between her van and the pump and a spark from the accident lit the gas on fire and she burned to death. Her passenger tried to push the van out of the way and others tried to get her out, but the flames were just too hot. She screamed for help and ended up dying in the flames. 

Whitney was one of the most amazing girls i have met and she will be dearly missed! We lost contact after graduation, but still, after four years of being together, she had a great impact on me and I cannot believe she is gone. 

She was only 18 years old and had so much left in her life to do. 

I am still in shock about the whole idea of her gone, so this post really isn't much more then a ramble, and I am sorry, but felt I needed to post something. 

Alternative Break Weekend--Trip 2 of 3

Well Saturday the 14th of March, I left with my group to head to Colorado Springs and work with the Veterans. We stayed at Christmas Unlimited because it was free and a safe place to stay. When we arrived we ended up walking downtown, which was a good 3 miles from where we were staying, so that was a nice walk. We then went back to Christmas Unlimited and had dinner and watched Stop-Loss. We headed to bed around midnight, where around 2 or 3am it got so cold none of us could really sleep but we didn't say anything until morning because we didn't realize no one else wasn't sleeping--so we turned the heater on the next night. 

Sunday we went to the Crawford house which is a place for veterans to stay when they are homeless. There are 15 people on the waiting list to get into the place, which is hard to think about. Here are these veterans serving our country and now they are homeless for many different reasons. We arrived there to find no one there, so that was disappointing, but we had lunch there without any veterans, and then headed back to CU and decided to put the care packages that we were going to send overseas together. That was fun. We made cookies again, just like last trip, and they came out sooooo much better, which was very exciting! lol!

Then we went and met with a person that works with homeless veterans and he talked about the rights of the homeless and all of that, so that was exciting. He talked a lot which was nice, and told lots of stories. 

We then went to Audrey's House to have dinner and meet with her brother-in-law who is heading to Iraq for the first time in May. He told us some interesting things about the Army and why he chose to join and I believe after college I will be joining the Airforce. I have always had it on my mind and after talking to her brother-in-law about the Army and then her father about the Airforce, I believe I really do want to stick to what I had always thought I was going to do. So, that is now my added plan. 

On Monday we then went and did some work at the Crawford house by painting and cleaning so that was a fun experience. Elliott and I were painting buddies and well, the owner Vikkie didn't really like out painting? haha, so i covered up so fast and saved our butts by saying "ooh, yeah we just need to do the second coat, so we have to wait for it to dry" which was bologna!! We thought it looked fine! lol ooh well!

We then went to the Airforce Academy and met with a guy who was in Vietnam and talked to him for like an hour. It was very short and he could have said so much more, but ran out of time. We then all departed and some went back to fort collins and i headed home. 

This experience really wasn't that fun. I am hoping the next and final trip is much better! We are headed to South Dakota to work on an Indian reservation, so that should hopefully be exciting! 

Well, i hope all is well and everyone is doing okay!!