Spring Break 2013
Students Today Leaders Forever - Pay It Forward Tour
Denver Mystery Bus
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This spring break I have the wonderful opportunity to go on the Pay It Forward tour with the organization called Students Today Leaders Forever! During this trip 45 college students will be visiting 7 cities in 9 days!! This is my second tour and I'm even more excited to go than I was the first time!
The bus I am traveling with has the final destination of Denver, Colorado. The interesting thing about my bus is that it is a mystery bus, so I do not know any of the other cities that we will be traveling to. Each day our bus core will surprise us and tell us where our next destination is!! Talk about living on the edge! Haha!
Friday morning all the members of my bus got to our meeting place at the early 8 am hour to see our chariot for the week, a green Cavallo bus, waiting for us. Although it was still fairly early, everyone was SUPER pumped to be serving across the country for a week! Before the trip I knew a few people that were going on my trip, but I was really excited to make lots of new friends!
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| We made it to Memphis! AKA Siphmem |
The bus departed promptly on time and after driving for a few hours we STILL didn't know where the heck we were going! All during this time, I was being resourceful and was looking at my phones map trying to figure out where we could possibly be going. We passed through St. Louis and for a moment I was pretty convinced that we were going to Kansas City Missouri. Instead of heading west however we headed south and eventually ended up in Memphis Tennessee!!!!
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| Beale Street!!! |
Our first activity of the night was to explore Beale Street! This was my 3rd or 4th time being in Memphis, but you can still always find something fun to do! We wandered around in downtown Memphis and found a lot of cute little streets along with some very interesting people. For dinner a group of my friends and I ate at this BBQ place. It was quite yummy!!
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| Fast facts about Beale Street! |
After a few hours of exploring time, we loaded the bus once again to head to our housing site. We stayed in this really nice church. During the whole week we are sleeping on the floor, but I think it builds character. Haha. Night activities took place and surprisingly we all still had a bunch of energy. I'm not really sure how. Haha. Nevertheless, there were still constant giggles and smiles from everyone from the bus.
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| Elvis? Yep :) |
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| Some of the girls exploring downtown Memphis! |
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| Macy & I enjoying the atmosphere and nightlife of Beale Street. |
Night activities concluded the night and then we were off to bed. I anticipated that I wouldn't get much sleep the rest of the trip, so I decided to catch some Zz's while I could. The next morning we would wake up early to do a service project in the Memphis area. Then in the afternoon it would be off to our next destination!
[Peace. Love. Service.]
- Jenny
