You know that Urbana thing...

Well Urbana is over and we are starting to see signs of post Urbana life. Hadn’t even thought about what that would be like.

During Urbana it felt a lot like being stuck in a crazy whirlwind. Non stop go, go, go. But the type that is fun to get up to, although harder each consecutive morning due to growing aching and back pains.

I had the fun job of lugging a heavy video camera around and capturing the general feel and look of Urbana. The most interesting time was interviewing students. After one “dinner opportunity” where students were invited to partake in a meal that World Vision put together to show students what people dieing of HIV eat to regain their strength, a group of us went out to talk to the students. Even the ones that couldn’t eat the entire bowl of corn and soy mush stated that this was an experience they would do again and that it had changed their view about the poor. You can see the summary video for that day at http://www.urbana.org/u2006.session.info.cfm?session=8 until they take these videos down. There are also several other videos on that site, take a look, you can see more than just daily summary videos that 2100 put together.