Well, JSB and Displace Me were last weekend. Good times I must say. Everyone looked splendid at JSB... The food was good, the program ran a little late so there was less dancing time but it was fun. Interesting mix of music this year. It's weird to think it's our last dance of high school, but still cool.
Displace Me was also very amazing. We had a lot of speakers... Dan Helder's mom, Clinton's advisor on international affairs, an actress from the West Wing. And Laura Bush made us a video. The IC guys also had dinner with the president a couple days before the event. It was really awesome to see so many people come together to make a difference. There were about 7000 to 8000 people in the LA displacement camp and about 60,000 or more total. I think what really hit me was in one of the videos the people in Uganda made for us when a man said "I will tell everyone in our camp that the people of America are good and really do love us." That in and of itself made what we were doing worth it. The simulation was far from accurate, but it gave us just a glimpse of what they go through, and with that, their hope grew. 
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JSB WAS SUPERRR FUN. But we dont have ANY pictures together on the last dance of our high school lives. What the gay is that! BTW, those cardboard shelters look tigghttttt. I wish I went now, despite the spider critters.
twas a fun weekend!
i wouldn't want to share a cardboard hut with anyone else, shiloh... except maybe andy roddick... or spider man
haha
Woot! Displace Me sounded awesome. I'm glad you didn't get bitten by some HUGE spider. :)
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