Friday morning I woke up at 5am. By 6am I had grabbed my stuff and left for the weekend. A coworker and myself took five of your youth to the first annual International Young Environmentalist Youth Summit in Buford, GA. After an extremely long ride we arrived at the summit at 6:30. We spent the weekend learning about threats to our environment and the many problems that our consumer lifestyle has made for the planet. We also got to hear from young people who have already started their own nonprofit. It was really cool to see what youth can do.
Today we had to leave early in order to make it back to DC in time to return our rental van before the metro closed. I am very glad to be back and out of that van for good. I had a lot of fun with the youth and learned a lot about nonprofits and our environment. I also did not get much sleep and feel like I need a long weekend to rest. It will be very hard to get out of bed tomorrow (though I have been given the day off).
To see pictures of our trip check out Kid Power's twitter and Facebook accounts.
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