Go Blue.

I thought Michigan's big win tonight against the Fightin' Illini was worthy of a post. This win breaks an 11 game losing streak versus the Illini with the last win coming in the first month that I lived in Chicago. Hopefully this win will be enough to lock up a bid to the big dance for the Wolverines for the first time in since they stopped paying their players many years ago. I think we are in for sure if we can win one of our last 3 games. It would be nice to see them do some damage in the Big Ten tourney too.

Kristen and I had a meeting today with a little cutie at the Boys and Girls Club down the street regarding our "Community Developement Project." The CDP is a requirement of all HFHI Americorps members across the country. Apparently devoting 1700 hours isn't enough so we have to due this project as well, which doesn't count toward our 1700 hours. The idea of the CDP is to find a project in the neighborhood in which you live or work, round up volunteers, educate them as to why the project is important, complete the project, and write up a silly summary on how it went, what you learned, yada, yada, yada. So Kristen and I decided to stop at the local Boys and Girls club to see if they had anything for us. I'll be damned if they don't have an old, beaten up putt putt course in need of repair. Based on the meeting today, it looks like they will have a few projects for us so we are going to split into 3 groups of 3 Americorps and each take a project. Our volunteers for the projects will be the kids at the Boys and Girls Club. Now we'll get to see who are the better workers, the kids or their parents that we work with at Habijax. I have to tell you now that we will probably be soliciting funds for this project so look forward to an email or fundraising post in the future. Kristen and I will likely start volunteering at the club once or twice a week after work to run the gameroom so the kids can have pool or fooseball tourneys and lead them in any other games. Maybe we will have karate and I can dominate the dojo.

Dragan complained that I didn't put an aligator picture up from Gatorland so now he got his wish.