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Storm Corps stories - along with stories of other alternative spring break experiences - will be told through MTV News' "The Amazing Break". The program will air and re-air on the following dates/times:
The American Psychological Association Practice Directorate in Washington D.C. has kindly sent us 2 tip sheets for hurricane volunteers and parents of hurricane volunteers. Please share these tip sheets with your friends that might be traveling to the Gulf Coast in the coming weeks and months. Also, we know that many Storm Corps participants will be traveling back to the Gulf Coast to volunteer this summer, so please bring these tips sheets with you.
Storm Corps participants - please post up your Top 10 Storm Corp moments from the trip by clicking on the "Comments" link below!
10-Getting accepted
9-Arriving on the Hands On camp to convince my eyes that I was chosen.
8-Tasting american coffe for breackfast and missing my puertorican one.
7-Being transfered to team SLEADGEHAMMMMA!
6-Working to help not to get paid.
5-Having all the Strom Corps people help me deal with Puerto Rico lossing the World Baseball Clasic to Venezuela and Cuba.
4-Learning a couple of new words, games and american traditions.
3-Finding in my interior peace and respect for the word "need".
2-Having the TSA agent at the airport ask me why my T-shirt was written on.
1-Being part of something that may happen to me and my people and knowing that I will not be alone.
-Alex from Puerto Rico
Now that the Storm Corps participants are all back in our local communities, now is a good time to share with you a great resource to find volunteer opportunities in your own community through United Way. Type in your zip code at this link below for volunteer opps near you: http://national.unitedway.org/volunteer/
Also, check out great information about your local United Way by typing in your zip code at this link: http://national.unitedway.org/myuw/index.cfm
Last, but not least, you can find volunteer centers in your state at this link: http://www.pointsoflight.org/centers/find_center.cfm
Life changing. That's all I can say about the trip. I could try to tell all of the stories and experiences I had, but it's almost something you had to be there for. What I wanted to write to you all about is the aftermath of this experience we shared this week. As far as I know, many of you want to go back already, and many of you want to serve your own communities.
To tell you the truth, I've been on 2 trips like this before. Everyone gets an emotional high when they're at the camp for a week, working with fun people, hanging out with kids their age. It's easy to get caught up in it. We're all ready to go out and do something to change the world.
Fact is...most of the time, that high wears off after a few weeks.
This is a personal challenge to all of you. Don't let this emotion wear off just because you're back to your normal lives. There's so many way you can get involved in your own community. You don't even have to start your own group. There are tons of organizations that have already been established. Not all the service projects are going to be the same as what we did. They could include serving food to homeless people, raising money for a charity, collecting cans of food or clothes, ringing a bell in front of a store during the holidays, going to your local United Way and asking how you can help, stuffing envelopes for mass mailings for non-profit organizations, and donating blood.
Anything you can do will help.
So basically...don't just talk...actually do something.
In closing, I'd like to quote a song from a band called "Thrice". It goes like this:
Rhetoric can't raise the dead
I'm sick of always talking when there's no change
Rhetoric can't raise the dead
I'm sick of empty words
Let's LEAD, not follow
It'd be sweet to try to get a network together of all of us, so we can keep each other updated on what we're doing, and also to help each other with ideas for what we could do. There's a group on Myspace.com called "Storm Corps 2006". Go join it, and post some topics and stuff.
Peace out,
Cameron, Storm Corps participant
p.s. Please click on the "Comments" link immediately below to read reflections on the trip from Storm Corps participants.
Storm Corps participants - please post up links to your online photo album from the trip in the "Comments" below! (Please make sure all photos you link to are appropriate for the general public to view or we'll have to take your link off the Comments. Thanks.)
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