Tomorrow's the day!

We leave for Louisville at 9:00 sharp tomorrow morning!! I'm going to try to Tweet as much as possible throughout the trip, and maybe blog a little since I'll be bringing my laptop. Everyone on the trip will take turns contributing to the MizzouASB blog starting tomorrow night.

MizzouASB Blog
My Twitter Feed


I'm so excited! We're having a pizza party tonight (a special thank you to the Frisco Dominos) and we'll be writing our thank you notes. Then, my suite mate and I will be seeing the new Bradley Cooper movie. A perfect end to the week!

ASB Itinerary

This has been the longest week of my life... But that's not important! What's important is I received my ASB itinerary last week. Here's a rundown of what we'll being doing starting THIS SATURDAY!

Saturday, March 26th
9am: Depart
1pm: Stop at Mt. Vernon, IL for food
6pm: Arrive in Louisville

Sunday, March 27th
Sleep in!
1pm: Tour of Smoketown
4pm: Open dialogue with all volunteers and coordinators (business casual)
6:30: Go out to eat

Monday, March 28th
8am: pack lunch and leave for sites (Oxmoor Farms)
12pm: Lunch
2pm: Paint mural with middle schoolers
6:30pm: Pizza and a movie
(This will be my day to blog)

Tuesday, March 29th
8am: Wake up, leave for sites
12pm: Lunch
3:30pm: Gilda's Club (cook and spread merriment)
6:30pm: Dinner with kids
7:30pm: Head back

Wednesday, March 30th
8am: Wake up, go to sites
12pm: Lunch, get ready for Slugger Museum
2:45pm: Go to Slugger Museum, get free baseball bat
5:15pm: Dinner

Thursday, March 31st
8am: Wake up, go to sites
12pm: Lunch
3:30pm: Kids Cafe (eat, visit, help with homework, play, etc)
7:30pm: Head back

Friday, April 1st
8am: Wake up, go to sites
12pm: Lunch
2pm: Middle Schoolers arrive at mural site
5pm: Head back
6pm: Dinner and movie

Saturday, April 2nd
7:30am: Meet in lobby for Lexington field trip!
9am: Arrive in Lexington for a tour of Keeneland race tracks
12pm: Find cute, local place for lunch
4pm: Closing dialogue with volunteers and coordinator
6pm: Final dinner (somewhere nice)

Sunday, April 3rd
8am: Back in the vans for CoMO!
4pm: Hopefully arrive home

Every night, someone on the trip will write a blog post on the Mizzou ASB website. I believe it's asb.missouri.edu... There's also a Twitter feed @MUASBLouisville

Update March 3-10

I realize it's been a while since I've posted. I've had a lot going on lately, so I'm going to do a recap of the last week. I see this on Twitter all the time where someone will Tweet all of what's been going on all at once. So here's Sam's News Dump:

Thursday Mar. 3: First Committee on Healthy Lifestyles Meeting; went well, people who attended came with some really great ideas for events; established a mission statement, provided a fruit plate
Found out I raised over $500 for ASB!

Friday Mar. 4: Longest day of my life. Got up early for the Student Nurses Week Pancake breakfast; enjoyed breakfast with the nursing school dean
Physiology exam
Nutrition test: kicked my butt and apparently everyone else; my first C in college

Saturday Mar. 5: CALEB Club event at the nursing school; big turnout, got to play with the $89,000 dummy and kept kids from rupturing each others eardrums
Tutoring at the library

Sunday Mar. 6: Relaxed!

Tuesday Mar. 8: Watched "Interactive Theater" in my nursing class

Wednesday Mar. 9: Became an official resident of Missouri!
Nursing Student Council Meeting: suggested the idea for a forum where pre-nursing students could submit question and an advisory group of clinical students could respond; anonymous and easily accesible
Student Nurses Assoc Meeting
Submitted application to be the SNA Historian

Thursday Mar. 10: went to listen to a guest speaker at the nursing school named Easy Stilson. She was really hilarious and talked about the differences between being a nurse in the 80's and being a nurse today; it was very enlightening and I couldn't be more excited to be a nurse after hearing her speak


ASB meeting tonight! Will be receiving our official itineraries outlining what we'll be doing specifically on each day of the break. I'm so excited!! I will post about it either tonight or tomorrow.

THANK YOU!

I have raised over $500 for Alternative Spring Break! I'm so ecstatic! I feel so lucky to have such supportive friends and family! When I sent out my letters, I would have felt lucky to raise $100. I couldn't even imagine raising over $500. I'm suppose to have a complete breakdown of who donated at the next meeting. We will then begin our thank you letters. I have so much gratitude, I can barely put it into words.  

We will also have detailed itineraries of what we'll be doing on each day of the trip. I will post it once I receive it.

I would also like to say that one of my fellow Spring Breakers applied for the nursing school and was accepted! I'm very excited for her.