It's for the Kids.

This past weekend I stood up for 24 hours. It was Dance Marathon weekend, number 11. Dance Marathon is a year-long fundraiser for the For the Kids Foundation, associated with the NC Children's Hospital right here in Chapel Hill. The money we raise goes to help the families of children in the hospital, from anything to phone cards, to parking, to meals, to things as big as monthly rents. From Friday at 7pm to Saturday at 7pm 2,000 people stood (and danced!) in a symbolic stand for those families. It was so hard but it was so worth it. It definitely was one of the most awesome weekends of my life, despite the fact that I am still sore and not caught up on sleep. Not only did we stand, but we danced and played games and had awesome times with each other. We seriously danced for over 12 hours throughout the time. Talk about not needing exercise! I'm not exercising for the rest of the month (which does only happen to be a week, but whatever).

The hardest part was during the middle of the night, when WE HAD NO CAFFEINE!!!!!!! What were they thinking? I have no idea. This is my friend Nicki, who made a sign saying "Will dance for caffeine." The first thing with ANY caffeine we got was around 4am and it was just Coke. Finally, coffee after we went to Kenan Stadium for the sunrise.









We did get coffee then, but it was only black with no sugar or creamer and it wasn't good quality coffee. That's okay, because my friend Lindsay brought us some Starbucks (around 11:30am!!!!).
She is awesome. In any case, we had an awesome time, I'm still walking around dancing, and we ended up raising almost $400,000!!!

One more thing - I have to do a debate for my New Testament class, and I've been assigned to the topic of homosexuality in the New Testament. I'm on the side that is arguing that the New Testament condemns modern practices of homosexuality. So if anyone has any suggestions or passages I can look at, or any good books to scan through, or any advice or opinions whatsoever on the topic that would be sooooo helpful! Thanks dudes. :)