Spring Break 2009!!!

This past spring break I traveled to Oklahoma. Why Oklahoma, you may ask. I went on Alternative Spring Break, or ASB, with people from Illinois State University. ASB is an organization in which college students go places where they believe that people may need help. This is an organization that takes place around colleges across the country. At ISU we have 180 college students and some faculty staff travel to Boston, Florida, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. Each location that we travel to has a different issue: Mississippi dealt with Hurricane relief, Boston dealt with hunger and homelessness, Florida dealt with environment issues, and Oklahoma dealt with Native American issues.
In Oklahoma my team got to go to a program called Head Start. Here we help children the youngest being 4 months old and the oldest probably being around 5 years old. In the classroom we help the teachers with whatever they may need to get done, but we also got to play with the children and we hung out with them. I was in a room that was full of infants, the youngest being 4 months and the oldest being 8 months. They were adorable children and even though they could not talk we still made a strong connection with all of them. They were so cute, just like most infants are. But I did not just make connections with them, but the people that I went to Oklahoma with. I was the site facilitator, so that kind of meant that I was in charge of a group. I did have a co leader as well and I think that we clicked so well and got along very well. I went with a bunch of people that I did not know at all in the beginning of the trip, but at the end I can call them my friends and I know that when I see them on the quad I can just go up to any of them and have a random conversation with them. This spring break was one I will never forget. I had so much fun with everything that we did and I will most definitely do it again, no doubt.