In an attempt to make a final posting last night, I fell asleep over my laptop... Sucks.
I had something written that was all too perfect for the given situation, describing my jumbled thoughts in a way that satisfied me and I fell into a collage of subconcious imagery instead... Let's try this again though...
Team Delta... Thank you guys for being there with me, for putting in the work, and for driving forward with me - even though we got split up during the journey! I had an amazing time working with you guys... Me: "What's the cat's names?" Leon: "...Kitties..." LOL!!!!!!!
To everyone else that came along, you all have something in you that makes you all good, and it's been noticed and appreciated by me... Thank you for just wanting to help - the World needs more people with mentalities just like yours!
To the SSC's, thank you both for the planning, preparation, and contribution to this service trip... You both were great, hope NOLA goes great when it's my turn! :)
To the chaperones, Thank you two for being that watchful eye, and for looking out for our basic safety! Cuz we all know there were times that it may not have been th most ideal of situations... You guys are appreciated...
To Heidi............ You decided to take the reigns over a project that had every right in the world to just slip through the cracks and fall apart, and you didn't. Instead, you yanked 16 college kids in the opposite direction and started a movement that has made its way even through Nashville now! You're the light at the front of this train, and really - what would we do without you?! Hahahaha..... "Chicken Thigh" ......LOL!!!
To NOVA, thank you for affording us the opportunity to continually take these trips... It's honestly journeys like this that immensely contribute to the most genuinely remembered and revered college experiences... Please, please, please... never divert your focus from the student body, and all that WE need to continue to be successful in every aspect of LIFE... be it on campus, or off. GO SHARKS!!!
Somewhere in a Nashville valley there are Japanese trees that never belonged, with a man with a green thumb and a heart underneath his stone-like exterior... I salute you, soldier... Mr. Bowman... You never gave up after everything... Been working alone to get back to normalcy, and I'm so infathomably proud to say that I've been blessed to be a part of that undertaking.
I hope he'll remember us, even as just a bunch of kids who showed up, made a mess, and cleaned it up - leaving him with something more than what was left before... I hope they'll all remember us...
From Fort Lauderdale (area) to Nashville, Tennessee - with undoubted and newfound Love...
--Stephen Roberts
