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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