So this week was Thanksgiving week and it was really sad to be away from my family on Thanksgiving day. All my family gathered together in Stratford, Texas and I celebrated thousands of miles away. It was difficult being so far away, but we celebrated in our own way on the base! First, I made a Thanksgiving Video for our base, we learned adobe premiere and adobe after effects and it was really great for me to learn more about video editing...you can check it out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYyIArG2ti8
The next thing we did was we had a huge thanksgiving feast and then hid about 600 paper turkeys around the entire building and had a race to see who could find the most turkeys in 5 minutes...It was a mad house around here and people were using some great basketball blocking out moves! It was crazy! Afterwards there was a down pour of snow, so we all went out and started what I will say is the greatest snowball fight I have ever been apart of! Each side had strategy and tactics and plans of attacks, so it was so much fun! Today we woke up and went to a print shop and communication museum in the capital of Switzerland. It was an awesome day and we ended with coffee at a small village that looked like a christmas north pole. It was the coolest town I have ever seen, covered with snow and had a castle. No words can describe how beautiful it was! Tomorrow we are going skiing to complete an amazing Thanksgiving week! I have not been out of the base these 3 months because we spend about 12 hours a day in the classroom designing and learning, so it will be nice to take a break before we start our final project. For our final project we will be researching and making a print project, web project, and video project over one current event subject in Switzerland. Our team is doing a project over suicide in Switzerland, because it has one of the highest rates in the world. It will be interesting to interview people on this issue and find out why one of the prettiest and richest places in the world feels so hopeless. I am excited about going deep, but it will be a crazy crazy 2 weeks, and then that means I am going to be home for Christmas!!
Something else, I have been officially accepted to Staff for Ywam Harpenden, England! I will be co-leader of the olympic sports outreach team. We are planning on having 10,000 people to direct and place and house around England for 2012. I am also helping with the design team and creating graphics, print projects and videos, so I'm excited about that! YAY! Well, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you guys all know how thankful I am for you and your support, it really means EVERYTHING to me!
