After a night of utter intoxication to try to dull my anger concerning the doctor episode, I can’t say I was in such a social mood. But the drove the three of us Americorps 5 hours to attend the statewide Americorps SERVES Conference in Wenatchee, WA. I can’t say I was expecting all that much based on what I’d heard and a glance over the schedule, but it’s required, we get reimbursed for travel and hell, its free food!
It was frustrating as they did not really accommodate for the handicap, leaving me to navigate a buffet and highly crowed seating arrangements with over 700 people, but already frustrated, I used it to my advantage and just sat on the floor and used it as an excuse to be a bit antisocial and observe…which ended up being quite entertaining.
As the conference proceeded, I came to enjoy this loner status that my knee scooter afforded. It allowed me to really sit back and observe the social interactions and partake only when I wanted to. I liked it.
Surprisingly I got quite a bit out of several of the workshops. Divine Bradely is quite the inspiration and led a great workshop on “Being It NOW!” Just an entertaining guy that really has transformed his life through intention and planning. Another workshop on Humor in the workplace was surprisingly insightful and philosophical, not to mention the guy who gave it was quite entertaining. Also introduced to the Power of Hope organization and approach that is very open, accepting, hands-on, active, fun. Just good ways to approach getting people on board for participation, creativity, acceptance and productivity. Was completely entertained and learned some good stuff about grant writing and made some really good contacts with some select people.
Overall, a very positive experience that got me out of the funk I was in. We enjoyed our little visit to Leavenworth and the charming Beir Garden. Yum! Until we got stuck in Seattle traffic for more than two hours because some dumb ass got on the freeway the wrong direction, killing himself and someone else in process of jamming traffic for a lot of other folk! Grrr!
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