How I see it

I am constantly amazed. Im traveling all across the pacific northwest and I have a perspective I've never had before. Every night someone in any given city opens their house to us to stay in. Every day we go to a school where people have put in valuable time to empower youth to make a change in our world. Every screening we witness excited people see their hard work come to fruition, marked by an Invisible Children van pulling up. What is this massive network I'm a part of? This extended family that I never knew existed. I never cease to be amazed at peoples love and openness towards people they've just met. I love being a part of this. I can't believe I'm privileged to be a part of it. I am so blessed to be able to participate in this revolution of people who care about others before themselves. I love what I do and I can't wait to see where it'll take me!

Moses Lake, Washington

We drove overnight from Boise to Moses Lake, Wa. A 6 hour drive in the middle of the night, over a mountain pass, and at one point slid across two lanes because of ice, but we didn't crash and made it to our screening on time! We met an amazing contact-Miles Hanson (and family). They were so nice and Miles was a ton of fun. Over the weekend we dressed up in a Nacho Libre costume, drove around the sand dunes, and went ice skating for FREE! Our time in Moses Lake was amazing and I'll never forget it! Video

Boise

We spent a week in Boise, Idaho. We had some amazing screenings. One of which was a screening to an alternative schools where kids came who had been kicked out of regular school or had trouble with drugs, problems at home etc. It was a screening I was really looking forward to. The school was maybe 150 and it was a low income area and we knew that we wouldn't make a lot of money. But that's not what Invisible Children is all about. We want people to see what's going on in other parts of the world and just see what conditions other people have to face every day too. A teacher came up to us after we had screened to the school. He wouldn't stop telling us what an impact we had on the school. He said how the film "subdued" them and how it completely got their attention. How it kicked down barriers and kids shared in class how they feel and what they thought-a rarity for that school. Hearing that made my day. It made me happier than having a record day in sales. We met these kids through the film and then I got to talk to so many. I feel so privileged and honored to be a part of this incredible organization.

We also had a little free time and it just so happened all our host homes had trampolines...video.

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Montanna

We screened to two colleges in Montana-both of which put us up in hotels! It was really nice and all of us took three showers just because we could! At University of Montana it was snowing while we were unloading but once we got inside it had stopped snowing. One highlight is that I took my first legit freight elevator and I figured it out by myself! I promptly got lost in a maze of hallways shortly afterwards though. Anyway-Montana makes you crazy. Video

Location:Missoula, MT