Last class was not an easy class for me. We split into our separate classrooms and shared our topics, so half of the scholars don't know what one of us is going through. Kelsey shared her topic, then veered into another, more relevant one.
Kelsey is from Colorado. Specifically, she is from the part of Colorado that has been in the news this last week for catastrophic flooding. Our classroom discussion focused on what is happening in her home town, and it was so very hard to keep from crying the entire time that she was presenting.
The week after I graduated from high school, my home town was hit with storm after storm after storm. My grandparents had a farm that has been in our family for one hundred and fifty years, and recently the area around that farm has been restructured so that, when those storms hit, the creek near their house left its banks. In the past, the creek has risen to the point that it has been around their house, but this year, it rose above the 100 year floodplain by three feet and flooded their house. Then, it flooded their house at least three more times within the two weeks after the initial flood.
I know from this summer how hard it is to clean up after something like that. This weekend, I went home and spent parts of Saturday and Sunday cleaning the furniture that we salvaged and helping my grandparents move into their new home. Because of this summer, I feel very passionate about helping the victims of the Colorado flooding. I feel that we have an obligation to help them in any way that we can, and the fall service trip seems like an excellent way to do so.
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