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The day of... and I am just keeping it real!

Right now, I am sitting at the airport freaking out because I didn't prepare myself well enough for these blog entries. This is the honest truth. Gigi and I are singing Christmas carols, so now I feel a little better.

Sunday's activities were amazing! We had some minor issues with being locked in Kingdom Camp! To defeat our problems, we decided to drive our SUV's over some hills ... as you can imagine, this was pretty intense. Nonetheless, we made it to church (Temple of Deliverance Church of God). This was an absolutely great experience. You had to be there. But there was a lot of toe tappin' and hand slappin' going on, and the people were "high" in the spirit!

Well, what can I say about Monday? It required a lot of community service. We finally broke out into our sites and my group went to Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) - a huge organization dealing with people with real-life issues. We participated in meals on wheels. We were able to see the good and the bad areas of Memphis. We were able to ride through extremely nice areas of Memphis into extremely poor areas of Memphis. In the poorer areas, we delivered food.

On Wednesday, we went to Oxford, Mississippi! (By the way, down south, they don't say Mississippi, they say Mis-Sippi. I just thought that would be a great short "geography" lesson.) Anyway, visiting Ole Miss University was yet another powerful experience.

Overall, my experience this year was absolutely, hands down, amazing! I would go to Memphis with this learning assignment every year.