Auf Wiedersehen!

1. In just a sentence describe your Summit Experience this past year?
This past year has been a really interesting, learning experience.

2. What aspects of Summit do you feel will be beneficial to you as you continue your Drury experience?
Time management, and definitely the friends and people I met.

3. What was the greatest thing you learned from living in Summit Park?
Other people cannot always be depended on, this holds true in both personal and professional settings.

4. What impact do you feel you have made on the community along with your agency and why?
I definitely feel I am a unique person and have brought a light-hearted sense of recognition to Planned Parenthood, and always made it my goal to make Summit a fun experience for everyone.

5. If you would have not had the chance to live in Summit, how would have this changed your experience at Drury?
I wouldn't have gotten as familiar with the organization (Planned Parenthood), I wouldn't have had a dishwasher OR a washer/dryer in my apartment on campus.

6. Looking back at the Summit Experience over the past year what would you have changed and why?
I don't believe in these "look back and change" questions because I believe they aim to make one focus on his/her failures. I made every decision on a case-by-case basis and I am proud and stand behind every one of them.

7. What is some advice you would give to future Summit groups?
HAVE FUN with your organization, advertise to the student body, and never forget you're there to build/maintain a great relationship with a wonderful organization. AND enjoy the dishwasher and laundry facilities! Bake lots of brownies late at night with your wonderful roommates. Enjoy free dinner one Friday per month!

Viel Spass!

Austin

Juicy Juicy Naked

What accomplishments have happened with your project over the course of this spring semester?
- With all the crazy radical republicans ruining Washington, DC at the moment, Planned Parenthood has been a wreck trying to keep funding. Crystal has been MIA and so that put a damper on some of our plans. But, we still have a couple of weeks to try to put something together.

What has been the greatest experience this past month volunteering with the agency?
- We haven't really had an opportunity to volunteer with the agency as much as we would like, but we have been talking to several groups on campus about Planned Parenthood and trying to educate as many people as possible. Also, we are beginning to work with VOX to bring a chapter to Drury, this is successful.

What has been your greatest challenge this past month volunteering with the agency?
- Contacting Crystal.

What projects or activities do you still have planned to finish out the year?
"Taking Back the Night", Selling NAKED juices with condoms. We're kings and queens (but mainly queens) of coming up with catchy titles, aren't we?! :)


Schönen Tag!

Austin

ho ho ho.

hey everyone! hope you had a fantastic month. :)

it's christmas time!!

so for my last blog of the year, i will continue the little tradition of "q&a with wiemer"

1. What events have taken place at the agency you have volunteered and how have you assisted this month?
we have made condom reindeer that we put on a christmas tree in the commons, this was a huge success people (including myself) loved them :) i am currently working on a huge project that will help transition us into a new semester (more details later).

2. As we end the semester what have been your best experiences and toughest experiences with your partnership agency?
best experiences- getting to spend time doing fun projects with my friends/housemates, condom reindeer :)
worst experiences- the lack of communication that i felt for part of the semester with planned parenthood, people not showing up for some events.

3. How do you see your group project evolving into the Spring Semester now that you have one semester under your belt?
i am working on getting business support for our roe v. wade event in the spring. that is a big undertaking. i am working with rachel, who is the representative from msu to contact 66 businesses. it'll be a great event!

4. What skills have you gained or improved this semester that came directly out of being part of the Summit Leadership Experience?
i've learned how important teamwork is. i am so busy that i can't make every event. so it's important to work with my team to make sure all of our events are successful.

5. As we end the Wellness Program and Stress Free Now Component what have been the highlights (low and high) of this program and what would you suggest for the future if this is continued?
the wellness program was a great experience. i loved yoga especially. getting to dabble in things i wouldn't normally do was really a great opportunity. i think it should be continued!

What are you looking forward to over the winter break?
spending a week with my family at home. then going to europe for 3 weeks to spend time with my friends in germany and check out german universities.

ich wünsche euch ein fröhliche weihnachten und ein glückliches neues jahr!

austin :)

october, where art thou.

hello everyone,

october flew by. i can't believe it's almost the end of the semester. during the month of october our summit group really focused our attention on planning great events for november. we have a juno movie night coming up and i'd really appreciate all of your support in attending our event.

we have begun a wellness class in summit and i really enjoy it, october was yoga month, and november will be tai-chi. it's really interesting to get to see how these exercises help keep stress levels down in the wake of term tests.

i am really excited to finish this semester on a strong note. i just attended a law school conference in chicago, and am really looking forward to spend as much time as possible working with planned parenthood to promote it's purpose (wearing fun sweaters and boots, of course!)

best,

austin

to whom it may concern:

hello everyone,

i know that i've been negligent in my blog posts, thus far, but i'm trying to make it up to you somehow.

my name is austin seaborn, and i am a sophomore here at drury university. i am a double major in international political studies and german. i am very excited to be working with planned parenthood this year in summit park leadership community, because i feel like it is an organization that has the potential to be a great resource to all of us in the drury community. the seven others and i are working to eliminate stereotypes and really introduce our friends and classmates to all of the wonderful services planned parenthood offers. but i'm going to be totally selfish and make this blog post all about me.

as previously stated, i am a double major in international polisci and german. with this i plan on moving to germany after school to pursue my dream in foreign diplomacy. i want to go to law school or to john's hopkins school of advanced international studies. my dream job is to be the united states ambassador to germany. i am extremely outgoing (too outgoing sometimes) but i am really passionate about meeting new people, and i love what i do. i am extremely involved on campus is several organizations. my pride and joy being student government association. i was recently elected by my peers to the position of vice president of student affairs. this position affords me many opportunities to serve my friends and peers and help shape a better future for all of us here at drury.

i chose to take part in summit park mainly because it's an excellent opportunity to get to know not only all of the other houses here in summit, but to build a great relationship with a local non-profit organization, like planned parenthood. these types of relationships are what will benefit me not necessarily today, but as i mature into an independent adult. it's opportunities like this that truly create a leader. i firmly believe in starting at the bottom and working your way up. i hope to get to know not only the people of planned parenthood, the springfield community, and my fellow summit partners; i also hope to learn more about myself. i want to find something i'm passionate about and go at it 200% this is a personal goal.

thank you for your support in every way.

best wishes,

austin