We just found out that the St. Louis school dropped out of missions because of the hightened boarder warning that the U.S. Gov has put out recently. Cartel against Cartel violence made some news papers in the United States so the government issued a warning meant for teens on senior trips thats says pretty much just be carefull and the St. Louis school board tells the kids that they can no longer participate. We are not even going through the cities the watch was put out for. Its just parents not being rational and it makes things much harder on the people still going. In most cases, there will only be one american in each village instead of the three that we had last year... And all because parents dont want to behave like adults.

I am a little annoyed about this.

The Jefferson City trip was a success. Not as fun for us as last year but it was still a good time to get to know the other people going on mission with us this year. It doesnt quite feel the same as last year's retreat but that is more because we did not stay with host families this time. We stayed at the retreat house across the street that reminds me of the brother's residence except that its not attached to the school.

Around thrity guys attended the retreat and of those, only three were really weird or awkward people. Minus that it seems like a its going to be a fun trip and the expirence of getting twenty nine other guys all to do one thing was an eye opener. I dont see how teachers do it everyday. It would drive me insane.

We got alot of papers and posters out of the retreat day though so that should be something to show to the senior project board.

Poster:

So Brother is bugging us so much we decided to get to work on our poster for the presentation thats coming up. To be honest it crept up on me, I had completely forgotten about even needing one but I guess thats why we have mentors.

We are using stincils and probably spray paint to make our poster with a photoshop background. The idea is to print the poster we make in photoshop and spray paint over it so it should look pretty good.