Tonight Jarett and I attended the BHM info session for their upcoming snowboard season. As mentioned in my 2008 recap blog, this past summer I volunteered my time on Sunday's teaching inner city kids how to surf. And this winter, we'll be taking them snowboarding.
After attending tonight's info session, I'm more pumped than ever on this program. Basically we spend an entire weekend with these kids. We pick them up on Friday evening, and each volunteer is assigned 2-3 teens. They are your group for the whole weekend. You drive to the mountain together, teach them how to snowboard, and participate in activities together. I love the surfing program, but one thing I felt was missing was a deep connection with the kids. Every time I taught, I had a different kid. Hard to build a relationship when you only spend a few hours with a kid and then move onto the next. I can already tell this is going to be a really amazing experience.
One thing that was interesting tonight was how the president of the mentoring group was telling us how most people don't want to work with teens. They want to work with the younger kids, the ones that are still impressionable and think they need to listen to you when you tell them to do something. But teens are at the point where they realize they DON'T have to listen to you, and they cause trouble. Serious, life threatening trouble. And that is scary so people shy away from that. But teens are really the ones who need the mentoring the most, and they also benefit deeply from it. This is why the program targets teens 14-18 years old.
The program will be two weekends this winter. If anyone is interested in learning more, let me know and I'm happy to pass along more info.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009
Goals For 2009
As mentioned in my last post, there are many things I am proud to have accomplished in 2008. In fact, so many good things happened to me in 2008 that I feel that 2009 will be tough to live up to. So I'm going to post a couple of my goals here:
1) Cook more meals at home / Learn to cook better: I am the worst when it comes to cooking. If I am not going out to eat, then I usually just grab something quick and already prepared from the grocery store or heat something up that's frozen. But I want to get better at cooking and have a handful of recipes that are easy to make and delicious. When I was up in Mammoth my friend Pam gave me 2 new recipes to try out: red chicken curry and chicken enchiladas. I'm excited to make them.
2) Write Cards: I bought holiday cards to send to people this year and never got around to doing them. I think sending cards to people for birthdays and holidays is a nice gesture. It's important for me to let the people in my life know I appreciate them, and I want to get better at doing that.
3) Get Better at Making Phone Calls - I have many friends who live in different cities. And even though I feel like we stay in touch, it's not as often as I'd like and I could be WAY better at it. Many of you who are reading this blog right now will agree with me on this, so props to Collin for putting this goal on my radar.
4) Be More Organized - I need to get better at organizing my personal paperwork. I have lots of loose papers all over my room and desk. I want to get more tidy about this.
That's it for now. I have more personal goals but those are the ones I feel like sharing for now. Also - I know many people call these resolutions. But not me. I'm not resolving to do anything, I'm setting a goal and giving myself a year to accomplish it. Like the quote on my business card says, "A Goal Is Just A Dream With A Deadline."
-LT
1) Cook more meals at home / Learn to cook better: I am the worst when it comes to cooking. If I am not going out to eat, then I usually just grab something quick and already prepared from the grocery store or heat something up that's frozen. But I want to get better at cooking and have a handful of recipes that are easy to make and delicious. When I was up in Mammoth my friend Pam gave me 2 new recipes to try out: red chicken curry and chicken enchiladas. I'm excited to make them.
2) Write Cards: I bought holiday cards to send to people this year and never got around to doing them. I think sending cards to people for birthdays and holidays is a nice gesture. It's important for me to let the people in my life know I appreciate them, and I want to get better at doing that.
3) Get Better at Making Phone Calls - I have many friends who live in different cities. And even though I feel like we stay in touch, it's not as often as I'd like and I could be WAY better at it. Many of you who are reading this blog right now will agree with me on this, so props to Collin for putting this goal on my radar.
4) Be More Organized - I need to get better at organizing my personal paperwork. I have lots of loose papers all over my room and desk. I want to get more tidy about this.
That's it for now. I have more personal goals but those are the ones I feel like sharing for now. Also - I know many people call these resolutions. But not me. I'm not resolving to do anything, I'm setting a goal and giving myself a year to accomplish it. Like the quote on my business card says, "A Goal Is Just A Dream With A Deadline."
-LT
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