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Day Eight – 3/10/2012

03.11.2012

Here we are, our last day together as a group…for now! We got up at 4am to head to the airport with all our luggage. After a bit of confusion and frustration with the buses, we finally made it to the SFO Airport, and through security JUST IN TIME. I’m pretty certain we all fell



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Day Seven – 3/9/2012

03.11.2012

Today is our last full day in San Francisco! Boo We began our morning splitting in  to three groups in order to recreate our Raleigh retreat, which is where we walked in groups around Raleigh trying to find various services for the homeless and GLBTQ population. In Raleigh, we had noticed that there were limited



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Days Five & Six – 3/7/2012 & 3/8/2012

03.11.2012

These two days are combined in our posts because we worked at the same two service organizations for both days. In the morning we served at Project Open Hand, which is a nonprofit organization down the street from us, that serves the community with nutritious foods that they can either receive through the grocery store



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Day Four – 3/6/2012

03.08.2012

Today was our first service day! We served at Larkin Street Youth Services which works with over 3,000 homeless youth a year for health, education, housing, clothing, food, counseling, and even more programs. We were asked to sort through the clothing drop-off area of the Center, in terms of all of the donations they’ve received



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Day Three – 3/5/2012

03.06.2012

Hello everyone, Today’s blog will consist of a quote from each of our team members about today’s activities! We used this day to go to the National Center for Lesbian Rights to meet director Kate Kendell and her staff. We also toured the Castro district of San Francisco which is historically know as an area



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Day Two – 3/4/2012

03.05.2012

Today was an absolutely busy, sightseeing-packed, introduction to the city day! Started the day off with some breakfast at the hostel and walked to the cable car we needed to get to Fisherman’s Wharf through the neighborhood we’ll be serving in the next few days. No matter what time of the day, we always seem



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Day One – 3/3/2012

03.04.2012

Hello everyone, Welcome to the ASB San Francisco 2012 team’s blog! We have a truly energetic and service driven team this year, and are happy to say we survived our first day! Nothing starts off an ASB trip like a 3am meeting time at Talley Student Center during a thunderstorm! Luckily we made it to



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San Francisco: Day Two

03.07.2011

Our arrival to San Francisco yesterday was fairly smooth. After unpacking we navigated our way to Chinatown for dinner. As the multiple time zones and long day of commuting left the team exhausted most of the team went straight to bed after dinner. However, the morning of day two had a different energy – despite



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Counting Down to San Francisco

02.25.2011

It would seem my life has recently have been structured to remind me that fate is a tricky thing.  As a Team Leader for the ASB San Francisco trip focusing on the epidemic of homelessness and its intersection with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community, this week has been pretty busy. Although the



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