These past two weeks have been crazy, to say the least.
I returned to school at Mount Saint Mary's University for my final year. Uh oh. The first week of classes were absolute chaos and consisted of me running around simply trying to get signatures for adds and drops.
However, at the end of the week I had a meeting with President Powell in which we spoke of the trip to Uganda and shared stories. The meeting went as good as it could have. I showed Dr. Powell the video which I created in memory of our trip and he seemed to thoroughly enjoy seeing the pictures and videos of the connections we made while on our trip.
We also spoke of the future and my possible trip back to Kkidnu and Uganda next summer. He was fully supportive of the trip and is willing to work with me on fund-raising and whatnot to make it happen.
After riding such a high from President Powell's meeting, I received an email from Kevin Dugan sharing the news of the new assistant women's lacrosse coach here at the Mount being thoroughly interested in helping with Fields Of Growth (www.fieldsofgrowth.org). This brought my excitement to yet another high. Next week I hope to meet with her and discuss possible plans.
Feel free to email me about the project at jthowell89@gmail.com
Peace