Kindness is not dead!

All I can say is that kindness is alive and well, and mom has it in spades!

We had gone the the Lowes home improvement store to pick up some energy efficient light bulbs.  As we are walking in my mom says "good luck" to a couple trying to figure out how to fit a mirrored door into their little tiny car.  We went in and took all of 10 minutes to find, choose, and purchase the light bulbs.  When we came out, the couple had put the door on the roof of the car and were going to drive while holding it down.  My mom and I tried to look for bungee cords in the trunk or something to help them tie it down with, but we couldn't find anything.  So what does my mom do... she asks them "how far are you going?"  and then says, "do you want one of us to help you hold that while you drive it there?"  So I rode in the backseat with the window down reaching out and holding on to this mirrored door of about a ten minute drive away.  Sometimes I get voluntold (instead of being volunteered) to do things, but usually I am happy I did, and this time was no exception!  Helping people is nice and not too many people do it these days, but it was comforting to know that my mom was following behind in her car!  And the best part of all, their license plate was "100 VAL" so they had a vanity plate without evening knowing it!

70 Year On After Normandy

Earlier this month was the 70th anniversary of D-day.  Fort Douglas Military Museum and the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs put on program at the Old Post Theater.  Two D-day Veterans and others spoke, it was very nice.  Then after there was a historical background on the landing and then the showing of The Longest Day. 

Operation Overlord 6 June 1944

"Imagine, What If Your Next Job Description Said - 

'Go and Save the World.'"

~Adventures in Anything & Everything

Working for Women

Last month I went to Mozambique for a humanitarian project.  I spent a total of three weeks in Africa, just over two in Mozambique and just under one in South Africa.  Weber State University faculty and students worked together with an NPO, No Poor Among Us, to build a Women's Center.  It was hard work, but well worth all the effort that was put into it!  These are pictures of the near finished product.

 Women's Center

 Entrance to Women's Center

 Sign posted next to the entrance

Weber State Logo with all the participants

Mural above the entrance

~Adventures in Anything & Everything

Presenting a paper!

Today I presented a paper at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference.  This year it was held at BYU in Provo, Utah.
There were a total of three sessions and four to five panels for each session.  I was in session 2, panel 3.  There were a total of three people on my panel, and we each had fifteen minutes to present with twenty minutes for questions at the end.
It was my first time presenting a paper at this type of conference, I think it went well.  My friend Chrissee won second place for the undergraduates that presented papers!  Next year I think it will be held at Weber State University in Ogden.  Maybe I should start preparing now!