http://students.absolute.org Absolute's Student Zone Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:14:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is September 2th and normally around this time I would be counting down the days until school starts again. I would probably be stressing about getting my parking pass and buying all my textbooks which we all know is extremely enjoyable! But instead I am sitting ... http://absolute.org/blog/2011/09/02/full-of-anticipation/ Our days start at 9am with an open-aired, windblown truck ride to our work site where we’ve spent the last two days. What started as three skeleton buildings are transforming before our eyes into homes for our new friends. Each home is no bigger than 250 sq.ft., but ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/08/11/boston-pizza-day-3-cinderblocks-gringos-and-kung-fu-panda/ An awesome group of scouts and leaders from Manitoba joined Hero Holiday in Mexico this summer for their ‘Build a Home Challenge’! While they’ve been keeping their own blog on www.scoutchallenge.ca we wanted to highlight some of their stories here, but make sure to check out their own site for ... http://absolute.org/blog/2011/07/15/scout-canadas-build-a-home-challenge/ Hero Holiday Dominican Republic July 10 2011 As I sit writing this blog at 9:50pm I am sweating, nursing bug bites, and convincing my flip-flopping stomach to return to some semblance of normalcy. Despite my ailments, I feel happier and more together than I ever have. For the ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/07/11/dominican-republic-july-2-12-2011/ With another full week under my belt, I’m getting fuller & fuller of reasons why I love Mexico. Some tidbits? Sure, I can share a few=) The UCM Hero Holiday team =  amazing. Great people, great conversations, great hugs, great love. It felt good to feel such love. ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/05/17/reasons-why-i-love-mexico/ It feels like months have gone by since we arrived here at Baja Mexico when actually its just been a few days. In just these few days we’ve built two little but amazing homes that will impact lives of two families for a lifetime.  Yesterday was day four of construction, ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/05/07/friday-may-6th-a-busy-day/ Today we continued our building project. Returning to the work site after a nice restful sleep, we admired the progress that was made long after we left on the prier day. So we started where help was needed, we reformed some assembly lines and got to work. We started by ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/05/06/day-4-playtime/ Written by trip participant - Mark Rosvold 4:12 am, Saturday night, or Sunday morning. In the hotel lobby I see my cohorts standing around, bleary eyed, but filled with a undeniable energy, a silent excitement, and a bewildered look that can only come from the exhaustion of travel coupled with a ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/05/03/the-beginnings-of-another-cmu-group-nice-to-have-them-back-on-the-baja/ Thursday was our last day of building and consisted mainly of spreading and smoothing skim-coat on the walls. We had a late start and then spent the day filling all the corners and cracks with cement, of course there wasn’t much to do so we got ... http://heroholiday.absolute.org/2011/05/03/friends-final-thought-from-school-of-leadership-community-build-in-mexico/ After a 7 week tour, the thought of going back home is an amazing feeling. But for a lot of us on tour visiting home isn’t really an option because of how far away it actually is. For us, improvising home has become a reality. For this four month adventure ... http://absolute.org/blog/2011/04/25/home-sweet-home/