we really need to update this more often

what to say...
This week I have participated in a teen camp for my job. The goal of the camp was to promote leadership, team building, and promote volunteering in the community. Did it work? I don't know. I had an amazing time though.
My boss let me do a 5 minute recycling presentation each of the five days we had camp. I started out with this landfill activity, where the kids through away anything they had in their pockets, along with some plastic bottles, cans, paper, etc. I told them that this is what a landfill looked like (except it wasn't really round) and said that at the end of the week we would see what decomposed, and what didn't.
I talked to them more about what actually happens when you recycle (my mom had some really cool broken up glass, because Lubbock has it's own glass break down machine. You guys know the glass broken up in front of the underwood center? That's right. Recycled glass. She also had some spongy recycling cardboard that is really cool looking) and what the recycled products are turned into. Recycled plastic is used for surfboards! Surfboards! And Tennis balls! I also told them about what it saved when people recycled. Basically, a lot of oil. Isn't that cool? When you recycle you save oil, which means gas. Though gas is really bad for the environment, I know that could be an incentive for people to recycle.
At the end of the week, one of the girls stood up and said, "I was thinking of it, and there is really no good reason for people not to recycle."
A 7th grader said this! I am so inspired.
I also told them about how to get started recycling at home, and in the community, and had several talk about going to their principals to start a recycling program at their own schools! Isn't that cool! I know that some may not, but I believe that some will! And it's a change! And it will help the environment! I'm just so excited, because the majority cared! we recycled all week long, and they would hold up their gum wrappers and Styrofoam cups and be like "can we recycle this? What about this?"
THERE IS HOPE! I don't think generations go down hill. I think they just change and we don't like change, so we label them as bad, instead of different.
I also know that I was with the "leaders" of the different schools, which probably don't represent the mentality of the majority, but I don't care, because if I got even one person to recycle, that made a difference in the world.
In July, I get to go to another camp and make a 30 minute presentation about recycling.
Everyone, we are going to make Lubbock green.

I wish I was writing now. I haven't written for awhile.

In other news, though, I recently finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It was good. I hadn't read a fiction book in a while, and it was nice to sink into something well written and deep. He had a really complex vocabulary, and I had to read with a dictionary close by. It was good. The jist of the book dealt with waiting for love, and wasting your life staying "devoted" to a person who isn't going to love you back. (I say devoted because even though one of the characters loved this girl for all of his life, he had a lot of affairs)
I don't want to ruin the ending, but it was powerful, and worth the read.
I don't really understand much of what cholera had to do with anything. Just Oregon trail. Always frapping died of Cholera in Oregon trail.