An interview and more importantly, a cause...

A quick update--my interview for school on Friday was interesting, to say the least. There were about 30 potential candidates there, and they divided us into three smaller groups to be interviewed by a professor, a current graduate student in the program, and a professional from the field. For about two hours, we were asked questions as a group and we each gave our individual responses. I don't usually get nervous about these sorts of things, and I wasn't, so hopefully I didn't come across as not caring or indifferent. I don't have as much experience in the area of counseling or education as most of the other candidates, but I answered the questions honestly and hopefully that will come across.

On a completely unrelated note, I wanted to talk about something that has taken the forefront in importance at our little home. Lindsay has been appointed, along with one other person, to head up a Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter of a global-wide event put on by the organization Invisible Children.




The organization was founded in order to bring awareness to the longest running war in Africa today, but more specifically, to encourage governmental action to bring an end to the use of child soldiers in that war. It was formed by three film students who traveled to the Sudan in 2003, and wound up in Northern Uganda as a woman informed them of the fact that thousands of children were marching into cities at night in order to escape being abducted and forced into an army formed by rebels against the Ugandan government.

These kids are being abducted at even the young age of 5 and brought into the jungle and forced to kill. The primary way to get this to stop is to bring attention to the issue--which is what the event is all about. If you go to the website (linked above), you can check out more information about the issue, as well as about the event--called The Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers--that takes place on April 25 of this year. If you want more information about being a part of the event, or on volunteering and getting involved, you can check out the Facebook event site or email seekersofpeace@gmail.com and I can forward the questions on to someone who can answer them more thouroughly.

It's a great cause! I encourage you to check it out!