Thought this was cool. Wyclef Jean is a fan of City Year. He's here in this video at a concert for City Year folk doing a Bob Marley Jam session. He breaks into freestyle about City Year. The lyrics he says are below the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEABRO5Q3bI
City Year, you’re doing a good job
I feel inspired, when I hear your stories
You’ve dedicated your lives so you can help others
Fulfill their possibilities, and don’t forget
To live for yourself is so selfish
But to live for others is your benediction
So City Year, here’s my benediction to you
Cause you have lived for others
The good Lord will bless you
May he guide you, like he guided Abraham
May he guide you, like he guided Moses
May he guide you, like he guided Isaac
There ain’t no wall, that you can’t break through
City Year, there ain’t no mountain too high, that you can’t climb
There ain’t no river wide, that you can’t cross
So let me tell you C-I-T-Y Y-E-A-R, you’re my superstar
C-I-T-Y Y-E-A-R, you’re my superstar
Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah
Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah
Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah
Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah, Oh-ah
And I ain’t have nothing written
This is just lyrics, that’s coming from my mind
But it’s inspired from he who is devine
And it’s taken an inspiration to your lives
So let the children come
For they are the blessing of the world
So that you keep teaching the kids
Cause they are the blessing of the world
I know Crips, and I know Bloods
And I know Esses, I know Latin Kings
And I know child soldiers
And every time I meet them
They say Wyclef things would be different
If they gave us a little love
So you keep spreading the love City Year
You keep spreading the love City Year
You keep spreading the love City Year
We gonna take it into the new year
You keep spreading the love City Year
You keep spreading the love City Year
You keep spreading the love City Year
It’s gonna be a new year.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
conflicting emotions
WRITTEN A COUPLE OF NIGHTS AGO:
They said it would happen and I didn’t believe them. Not for a minute. I was too surrounded by passion to get swept up in the stereotypical crash after the mountain top high. Don’t get me wrong, this week has still been phenomenal by my pre-City Year standards, but I definitely started to let things wear me down. It started Sunday night. I let petty high school gossiping get the best of me, it outright hurt my feelings. I originately typed a lot more about the subject, but I'll leave it at that.
This week was also rather stressful because I had quite a scare with Koda. I ended up taking her to the vet before work on Wednesday morning because she was obviously sick with bloody vomit (sorry…) Anyways. $114 later the vet chalked it up to the simple fact that something irritated her stomach. I stayed home with her the next day to keep an eye on her. She still wasn’t quite herself Thursday morning and I couldn’t bring myself to leave her alone for 11 hours, but by that evening she seemed pretty much back to her old self. And I got a much needed mental health day.
Earlier this week we were a bit bummed out at McAuliffe. There was a lot testing and lack of interaction and progress with the kids. But my team met with the principal to have all of our lunch clubs approved. So those are starting next week and we also get our tutees and mentees next Tuesday! This means two very detailed lesson plans by Monday morning… but it’s worth it! We also started our CPR training today and even though it was incredibly boring stuff on the computer we get to work with the dummies next week! I also figured out what I want to do for my Leadership Development Internship (this is a 4 hour block we have on Wednesday morning to participate in an internship or volunteer opportunity with any non-profit in San Antonio). I’m going to take Falkor to the State Hospital to work with an adolescent group there! I’m VERY EXCITED about this.
So I know that’s a lot. I’m sorry if I overwhelmed, but this week was rather overwhelming for me as well. It’s over tho and I can start the steady climb back to the top and beyond. Here are some really cool things that show just that:
The Young Heroes team gave their presentation to recruit us to help out next semester and be a Team Leader for the Young Heroes. I’m really excited about getting to work with their team. Young Heroes is a club that was started in City Year for middle schoolers. They give up 3 Saturdays a month to participate in service learning seminars and service projects. They complete 100 hours of service and earn the President’s Award for Service. I can’t wait to work with these inspiring kids!
There is a LiveGreen festival type thing tomorrow that’s being put on by CPS and Saturn (so of course our Saturn sponsored Civic Engagement team is required to help out). I was already interested in going to check it out so I’m going to get hours there by helping out for a bit. I’ll have to remember to post tomorrow about all the cool stuff I see.
They said it would happen and I didn’t believe them. Not for a minute. I was too surrounded by passion to get swept up in the stereotypical crash after the mountain top high. Don’t get me wrong, this week has still been phenomenal by my pre-City Year standards, but I definitely started to let things wear me down. It started Sunday night. I let petty high school gossiping get the best of me, it outright hurt my feelings. I originately typed a lot more about the subject, but I'll leave it at that.
This week was also rather stressful because I had quite a scare with Koda. I ended up taking her to the vet before work on Wednesday morning because she was obviously sick with bloody vomit (sorry…) Anyways. $114 later the vet chalked it up to the simple fact that something irritated her stomach. I stayed home with her the next day to keep an eye on her. She still wasn’t quite herself Thursday morning and I couldn’t bring myself to leave her alone for 11 hours, but by that evening she seemed pretty much back to her old self. And I got a much needed mental health day.
Earlier this week we were a bit bummed out at McAuliffe. There was a lot testing and lack of interaction and progress with the kids. But my team met with the principal to have all of our lunch clubs approved. So those are starting next week and we also get our tutees and mentees next Tuesday! This means two very detailed lesson plans by Monday morning… but it’s worth it! We also started our CPR training today and even though it was incredibly boring stuff on the computer we get to work with the dummies next week! I also figured out what I want to do for my Leadership Development Internship (this is a 4 hour block we have on Wednesday morning to participate in an internship or volunteer opportunity with any non-profit in San Antonio). I’m going to take Falkor to the State Hospital to work with an adolescent group there! I’m VERY EXCITED about this.
So I know that’s a lot. I’m sorry if I overwhelmed, but this week was rather overwhelming for me as well. It’s over tho and I can start the steady climb back to the top and beyond. Here are some really cool things that show just that:
The Young Heroes team gave their presentation to recruit us to help out next semester and be a Team Leader for the Young Heroes. I’m really excited about getting to work with their team. Young Heroes is a club that was started in City Year for middle schoolers. They give up 3 Saturdays a month to participate in service learning seminars and service projects. They complete 100 hours of service and earn the President’s Award for Service. I can’t wait to work with these inspiring kids!
There is a LiveGreen festival type thing tomorrow that’s being put on by CPS and Saturn (so of course our Saturn sponsored Civic Engagement team is required to help out). I was already interested in going to check it out so I’m going to get hours there by helping out for a bit. I’ll have to remember to post tomorrow about all the cool stuff I see.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
So much to write. So little time.
This is a post I wrote last Friday:
I’ve been sick for over a week! I’m finally starting to feel like my old self again today. It’s glorious. We had a multitude of “coming out” events last week for the Corps that I feel I should expound upon. On Wednesday morning we were invited to a Rotary lunch (the biggest Rotary if I remember what Paul said correctly) I read the Invocation, Chrissy gave her testimonial (it made everyone cry, so inspiring). We lined up as a Corps and introduced ourselves (name, age and hometown) and then we recited the CityYear Pledge. We were all sexy in our uniforms, I’m not gonna lie. It made me ridiculously proud. Then we had opening day at City Hall on Friday. That was cool though I really wanted my dad to be there and my sisters. I read the Invocation again (which I had to recall from memory… apparently I’m the Corps Chaplin, not really) anyways, Sapphire and Matt Lugo gave their testimonials. Again, very inspiring. On Saturday we executed the Action Generation Service Summit. City Year spear-headed the coalition for that. I got to be a Project Coordinator for a project at Hemisfair Park. We painted park benches. The coolest part of the weekend was the fact that Layton came to visit! We watched the Dawgs lose on Saturday night… but had a great weekend overall. Jill and I visited the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday and we pretty much fell in love (except for the plethora of spam that’s been invading our inboxes because of the visitor card…) It seemed very much our speed and was a very welcoming place. We’re definitely planning on going back this Sunday and hopefully bringing along some more people who would love it.
And this is what I have to say today. We had another great week at McAuliffe. We got lots of planning accomplished. We hammered out the plans for our first meeting with all our tutees and mentees. We also did a lot of lesson writing for our lunch clubs. On Friday we filled out all the information for our Food Stamps so it’s good to know that the ball is rolling on that one. Saturday was the first big service event that our CE team planned on their own and it was a HUGE success. They did a great job. It was at Avance which is a center for lower-income families, especially with children under 3 years-old. We brought in about 80 students from KIPP Aspire Academy. They worked on painting the fence. We also had volunteers from First Mark and they worked with Matt Lugo, Charles and me on building some benches and picnic tables for the center. It was a lot of fun to have the opportunity to PC a group again like I did last week at Hemisfair Park. Lauren’s boyfriend, Justin, is in town. It’s been great to get to know him. We all hung our at the “commune” last night and watched the Holiday and What About Bob. Today Jill and I attempted to make it to church again, but after missing our exit on the highway we decided to stop at a diner and just have brunch instead. We met Sasha at the River Center Mall and watched Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. It was cute. Then we went window shopping for a while. I was very tempted to buy these amazing cowboy boots. They were way too expensive so I didn’t, but I did decide that a trip to an outlet store to get some is definitely in order.
That’s the quick update on the past two weeks… I won’t procrastinate next time.
I’ve been sick for over a week! I’m finally starting to feel like my old self again today. It’s glorious. We had a multitude of “coming out” events last week for the Corps that I feel I should expound upon. On Wednesday morning we were invited to a Rotary lunch (the biggest Rotary if I remember what Paul said correctly) I read the Invocation, Chrissy gave her testimonial (it made everyone cry, so inspiring). We lined up as a Corps and introduced ourselves (name, age and hometown) and then we recited the CityYear Pledge. We were all sexy in our uniforms, I’m not gonna lie. It made me ridiculously proud. Then we had opening day at City Hall on Friday. That was cool though I really wanted my dad to be there and my sisters. I read the Invocation again (which I had to recall from memory… apparently I’m the Corps Chaplin, not really) anyways, Sapphire and Matt Lugo gave their testimonials. Again, very inspiring. On Saturday we executed the Action Generation Service Summit. City Year spear-headed the coalition for that. I got to be a Project Coordinator for a project at Hemisfair Park. We painted park benches. The coolest part of the weekend was the fact that Layton came to visit! We watched the Dawgs lose on Saturday night… but had a great weekend overall. Jill and I visited the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday and we pretty much fell in love (except for the plethora of spam that’s been invading our inboxes because of the visitor card…) It seemed very much our speed and was a very welcoming place. We’re definitely planning on going back this Sunday and hopefully bringing along some more people who would love it.
And this is what I have to say today. We had another great week at McAuliffe. We got lots of planning accomplished. We hammered out the plans for our first meeting with all our tutees and mentees. We also did a lot of lesson writing for our lunch clubs. On Friday we filled out all the information for our Food Stamps so it’s good to know that the ball is rolling on that one. Saturday was the first big service event that our CE team planned on their own and it was a HUGE success. They did a great job. It was at Avance which is a center for lower-income families, especially with children under 3 years-old. We brought in about 80 students from KIPP Aspire Academy. They worked on painting the fence. We also had volunteers from First Mark and they worked with Matt Lugo, Charles and me on building some benches and picnic tables for the center. It was a lot of fun to have the opportunity to PC a group again like I did last week at Hemisfair Park. Lauren’s boyfriend, Justin, is in town. It’s been great to get to know him. We all hung our at the “commune” last night and watched the Holiday and What About Bob. Today Jill and I attempted to make it to church again, but after missing our exit on the highway we decided to stop at a diner and just have brunch instead. We met Sasha at the River Center Mall and watched Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. It was cute. Then we went window shopping for a while. I was very tempted to buy these amazing cowboy boots. They were way too expensive so I didn’t, but I did decide that a trip to an outlet store to get some is definitely in order.
That’s the quick update on the past two weeks… I won’t procrastinate next time.
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