Goodbye HSI 2008

As we say goodbye to the 2008 Hansen fellows I wanted to share some memories of the past three weeks. We started this year with a reception at President Weber's University House. We got to meet the some of the people who help make the program work.



However once the niceties were over it was time to get to "work". The anticipation before we ever got t Challange U had everyone on edge. The idea of climbing a pole and walking across a wire sounds pretty scary but this day set the tone for the 3 weeks to come.

It's all about teamwork!

This lesson was reinforced in the classroom…

and on the beach.

In addition to a lot of fun, the HSI experience was very eye opening for many of us. We learned a lot about places we have read about in the news….

and others that we rarely ever hear about…

We learned new ideas and concepts which hopefully will inspire change in individual communities and around the world.

Overall we the time passed way too quickly in a blur of classes, activities and excursions and suddenly we were had to say goodbye to lifelong friends that we met only three weeks before.