Against the Grain…

November 26th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

So I’m going to be very honest…I have been disheartened. I have been making a real effort on campus to get people interested and yet it seems like the odds are against me and everyone who has taken any sort of interest has sort of faded from the picture.

But, in light of the fact that we have all these other schools to look after I think its been a sort of encouragement and even inspiration. I have a girl from Lake Forest whose dreaming big and she’s working hard towards it. There’s another girl who recently got engaged and a to become  stepmother taking the initiative to become a campus challenge leader.

And its making me ask myself whether I’m giving up too easily, so despite the odds think its possible to go against the grain of indifference or skepticism and just kind of work harder. So this week I decided to keep trying different organizations on campus even though I’ve been turned down by so many (really nicely and oh so subtley) and finally got through to one for World AIDS Week. So this week we’ve planned some events like human chains and the orphan t-shirts from Acting on AIDS. So, I’m actually excited and looking forward to really getting the word out there this week and hopefully breaking the nonchalance -  one by one!