Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Connecticut and Carolina

After finishing our mad dash around Philadelphia (Villanova, St. Joeseph's, and Messiah), we headed back to our home base at Connecticut College to spend some time with Adam and office work. Working in a place with a foundation was a nice change for us.

In Connectiicut, we tackled numerous projects from working on the newsletter to cold-calling schools. We learned that Frank has a gift for cold-calling, and so we let him take on that project. Also, we got a chance to present to the Peer Educators at Conn College in an effort to hype up the students about starting a One in Four Chapter. Of course, they were a great audience and seemed really interested in potentially starting a chapter, which is always exciting. A Conn College chapter would surely be a really strong group!

New London is fairly spread out, so we don't often venture out. However, Frank and I decided to take a walk to Chili's one night because he had a hankering for steak. After about forty-five minutes on the dark roads on Connecticut, we arrived at Chili's. Well, having been poor judges of distance and personal energy, wee called Adam for a ride home after our meal. Luckily, Adam was more than happy to pick us up.

After Conn College, we headed down to do a little maintenance on the RV in Virginia. We then drove down to Greenville, N.C. for our presentation at East Carolina. I think we'll all agree, this was an interesting presentation. First, we helped Sue with Victim Services distribute flyers about our presentation and the Take Back the Night march preceding our presentation. There was a twist- she asked us to pass out flyers wearing high heels. Yeah. One component of the Take Back the Night march was "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" for guys to make a statement by marching in heels. So, Sue wanted us to help promote that. But, the heel-wearing didn't stop there- Chad an Frank actually did march during Take Back the Night in heels! Carter and I led the parade in our RV. Our presentation went very well and we left thankful for all the momentum being created on the ECU campus to stop sexual assault.

Now, we are changing some tires and driving back up to New England for our next presentation at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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