Newsletter #1-The Beginning

Hello All,
I can’t believe it’s been five weeks since I first came to Texas. It feels I’ve been here for months already. Where do I begin to explain all the things that have occurred on my journey thus far. To help you gain a clearer perspective of where I am I shall paint it out for you. I am living in the middle of nowhere East Texas. I go to the Center for Creative Media. I am an intern at a production company. Which is part of a big organization called Teen Mania. Teen Mania also had an internship called the Honor Academy and there are approximately 400 interns who have ministry placements there. I attend one or two classes a day. On Leadership, Character Development, Foundations, Habitudes, etc.
So far my duties at CCM as included being an Assistant Producer to one of the staff members, basically what that entails is doing research, location scouting, phone calls, casting, going on shoots, etc. I have also done transcribing and logging. Been an extra in some shoots.. Which reminds me. If you live within a five hour radius of Hamilton, Ontario you need to be going to Acquire the Fire. It’s a two day event. With bands, speakers, and a drama. It’s at the Copps Coliseum. I will be there on the production crew and it will be amazing. I have gone for the past several years and have always been so inspired. One of my favourite speakers Ron Luce, who is also the president and founder of Teen Mania will be there. If you want to make a difference. If you want to be an influencer. If you are sick of just wasting time and not knowing what to do. ATF will help you out so much. AND CCM has been working on this for MONTHS. And the past several weeks many have been pulling all-nighters. We are doing all the graphics, producing the videos, basically everything you see on screen is made by us. And I’ll be in some of the videos too : ) so you should definitely go. Tickets are available at www.battlecry.com just go to ATF tour dates and find Hamilton. Shoot me an email if you’ll be going. Maybe we’ll be able to go out for coffee after one of the nights.
Anyways, I do apologize for my lack of updates on my blog. I didn’t realize how busy my life would get.
In other news. TM has something called Life Transforming Events (LTEs) and last week I participated in once called ESOAL (Emotional Stretching Opportunity of a Lifetime). This LTE will show someone how far they can go physically, mentally, and emotionally. If you finish you can be darn proud of yourself. I’m not going to go into too many details because you may decide to come here next year and I would love for you to experience this life changing event and the less you know the better ☺
I hope all of you are well. Feel free to email me and tell me how you are doing. I’d love to hear from you.
Joelle
The future is bright.

Newsletter will hopefully be emailed by the end of next week.

Weekend is over

(written a few days ago)
Hey,
So I don't really have too much to say today. I've been doing my AP (Assistant Producer for those who have not read my previous blog) duties and helping out at shoots.
I do have a funny story. For some odd reason my clock was set ahead by two hours last night and so when my alarm went off at 4:30am and I got up to go to the bathroom I saw no one in the hallway, which is strange. So I tell me roommates to get up, and then I ask why no one is in the hallway? Was corporate (workout) cancelled? My roommate pops out from underneath her domain and tells me that it's 2:30am. And I say, "No it's not." I ask my other roommate that was awakened and she said it was 2:30am as well. So I went back to bed. It was a little embarrassing but I didn't really care.

(written today)
I had a wonderful weekend. Saturday I slept for most of the day and read a book. At night I played soccer with some of the guys. Me and Danielle did our laundry and watched soccer with some of the guys and went to Sonic's. On Sunday, we went to church and went shopping. That was fun. I have been going to Eisley's church since I got here and I really enjoy it so I'm staying. It's cool cause a lot of CCMers go there too. So it's been fun. Anyways, nothing too exciting has been happening today. I didn't have corporate this morning so I got to sleep in till 8:15. That was wonderful. Laboring on Labor Day. Life is good.
Peace.

David Goggins

My new hero. This is who I will be thinking of at 4:30 every morning.