This past weekend was YAC (Young Adult Conference). It’s a weekend event for adult 4-Hers held at Jackson’s Mill. I had a blast! I always do when I’m at the Mill. I love having a winter camp. After aging out, YAC is my last camp as a camper. It’s really fun connecting to all my friends that I haven’t seen since last YAC, and even the friends I see during the year.
The best part about YAC is the magical snow that comes to the Mill. At least it seems magical…it’s so different from my usual experiences at the Mill, in the summertime that the snow adds something special to my YAC experience. Usually we’re still able to have Council Circle outside, but unfortunately the temperatures were too cold this year and we had it in the West Virginia Building.
We had three classes and I went to Irish Cuisine, Line/Folk Dancing, and YAC Planning 2015. I had a great time in all of my classes. I learned a new bread recipe, a line dance to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”, and got to throw out ideas for the next YAC. Oh, we also got to eat a lot of bread and have some tea in Irish Cuisine class, best time ever!
Saturday night was the camp dance and I got on the floor and grooved to a lot of different songs, probably my biggest amount of exercise in a good few weeks….maybe months haha. I took stuff to donate to the Silent Auction this year, but there wasn’t a lot of exciting things to bid on. Probably the most exciting item was a hand-crafted wooden canoe/kayak/some type of boat paddle, it had the clover and YAC wood burned in it.
Sunday’s announcements were fun. Even though I graduated college in May, I’m still interested in helping out Fairmont’s Collegiate Club and there were numerous updates and things to look forward to on the collegiate level. We also have officially hired a new Global Education Specialist, which means that someone is going to focus on the IFYE applications. Hopefully they’ll be out before I get hired somewhere else for next year, but I can always apply for the trip after this one.
On another note it was so cold that it took my car forever to start, even with someone jumping it. After we got it started I didn’t shut it off until I parked at my apartment. The ride home took almost twice as long as usual because the roads in Morgantown were so scary; I saw someone drive sideways, luckily not into me.
I had a fantastic time this weekend and can’t wait to make my world a better place.
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