After a month of separation....

So, Don asked all of us who worked at 3.0 to write another testimony about the experience this past week, and I just turned mine into him today. These testimonies will be shared with the Quad W Foundation so that we can secure funding for the program for the next three years. I decided to post mine on here, since everything else I've written for 3.0 wound up on here as well.

"The 3.0 internship had a tremendous impact on my life. Even now, after being separated from the program for about a month, I still feel its impact and realize each day a new lesson I learned over the summer that has stuck with me. I'm a second-year Resident Assistant in one of the residence halls on my college campus, and I was asked to write a morning inspiration one day during training. I thought long and hard, and I ended up showing my fellow RAs some pictures of the kids with whom I worked, and I told them particularly heartbreaking stories about those beautiful angels of God. Then I related it to our job, and how we cannot ever judge anybody by first glance, but realize that we do not know what has happened in their lives and that it's our job to love them and accept them no matter what. 3.0 forced me out of my comfort zone, and the kids at the Whistler site, where I worked, taught me how to love with an unconditional, unbiased heart, and how to realize that the truly important aspects of life are not "things," but love, acceptance, kindness, humbleness, and, most importantly, molding our lives so that we can live life to its fullest potential in a way that makes Jesus proud. I've heard residents complaining about their rooms being too small, but I think we should all be so thankful if we have a roof over our heads. I've seen people around campus who other people think are weird, but I see them as another child of God. That way of thinking would not have existed in my mind last year. 3.0 changed me forever, and I will always thank God so much for providing me the opportunity to let my life be shaken out of the comfort zone it was contained in before, and letting me realize how amazing life can be once we see the world for what it is through the eyes of God."