Greetings!!!  Once again, it has been a while since I posted anything.  I promise, I have not been procrastinating too much in the down time.  As I posted in December, I have moved web hosting companies.  The move is now complete and I am enjoying the new services a lot.  Not only has this space changed but BeamerFoto.com has undergone a massive facelift.  I now have over 700 pictures for your viewing enjoyment!  In fact, you are getting a small preview on this page.  Check out the header picture, the majority of those pictures (a new one every time you refresh the page) is from BeamerFoto.com (go ahead, try it… there are 24 to choose from currently).

Life in general has been a whorl-wind lately.  I began graduate school last month and have been doing that thing.  I recently realized the difference between 400-level and 600-level classes in terms of the thought required.  I remember when 400 was hard, now it is the norm haha.  What is helping right now is I am remembering back to my sophomore year, specifically the fall semester, and how I did not think I would make it through dynamics.  Somehow or another I passed the class, even with a C (really have no idea how it happened because I had an F) and now here I am.  So we shall see how it goes.

On top of starting up the grad school stuff, Nuru is really taking off.  Right now we are concentrating our efforts into making a nationwide even happen on April 23rd.  It is called BH2O+ – Be Hope to Her (the O+ is the women’s sign sideways).  It is an event designed to bring awareness to the need for clean drinking water in Africa and to educate people on the plight of women in Africa created by the lack of accessible clean drinking water.  You might ask yourself about now, “What is the plight of African women and this whole clean drinking water thing?”  Well… many African communities only have access to natural water sources.  Usually women take on the role to walk, to walk, the long distances to these water sources, which can be as much as six hours a day – which does not allow enough hours in the day for African girls to attend school.  The lack of this education helps to bolster the cycle of extreme poverty.  Furthermore, there is undue strain placed on the body every day doing this.  You may not realize that a gallon of water weighs in around 8.3 pounds (3.75 kg).  Now take that number and multiply it by 5 because they often use 5 gallon buckets.  That ends up being 41.5 pounds (18.75 kg).  I do not know about you but I would not want to carry that much weight several times a day… plus the time it takes to boil and cool the water in order to drink it.  My role in this is to be the WVU event photographer, WVU graphic design guy, and to help coordinate the videography.  I’m also helping to determine how many of these people are needed for the other campuses around the country and I will be coordinating what we are going to do with all the data that is generated.  So… that is Nuru Grassroots Movement’s focus right now and we are making a lot of progress on it given our extremely short timeline.

As usual, I am impressed that you have read this far and I am clapping for you.  These ramblings probably seem they go on forever and ever and to some extend they do but they are coming to a close.  I am going to try to continue the trend of having some sort of picture or video for you to enjoy while reading but this time around I invite you to explore the headers by refreshing the page.  I am also going to try to write more often but I cannot make any promises.

Until next time, Ciao! Ciao!