This week I though I would abandon the traditional PR format for my blog for one more appropriate.
Concern… 
Even though I live in Boca Raton Florida where the weather is nice and the sun shines 300 days a year I am concerned about the residents of North Dakota.
For the last year I have attend Valley City State University in North Dakota. My classes are online and yet I still have a lot of interaction with students who live in Valley City and the surrounding areas.
Through my course work I have had a lot of interaction with students, professors and staff. These last weeks the emails, calls for help and personal note from professors regarding the flooding in the area have given me cause for alarm.
I was thankful wh
en I heard the National Guard was being sent in to help with the community disaster and I must say I am quite impressed with the students who were lining up to volunteer to get on a bus and head out to help with sandbagging.
It was heartwarming to hear about the community pulling together!
I have been tracking the progress from the local paper (thank goodness for the internet) the Valley Ci
ty Times Record. It has been distressing and informative and helps me to understand more about what my fellow students are going through.
I view the email traffic of the class, dance, and lecture cancellations. I see students organizing there own sandbagging sessions and I have seen a student body, faculty and staff pull together to do what is right during this natural disaster and I am impressed.
I wish a safe and happy holiday for everyone who resides in Valley City, ND and the surrounding areas this Easter (or Passover) and hope that soon this trying time will be behind you.
Happy Easter!
Even though I live in Boca Raton Florida where the weather is nice and the sun shines 300 days a year I am concerned about the residents of North Dakota.
For the last year I have attend Valley City State University in North Dakota. My classes are online and yet I still have a lot of interaction with students who live in Valley City and the surrounding areas.
Through my course work I have had a lot of interaction with students, professors and staff. These last weeks the emails, calls for help and personal note from professors regarding the flooding in the area have given me cause for alarm.
I was thankful wh
en I heard the National Guard was being sent in to help with the community disaster and I must say I am quite impressed with the students who were lining up to volunteer to get on a bus and head out to help with sandbagging.It was heartwarming to hear about the community pulling together!
I have been tracking the progress from the local paper (thank goodness for the internet) the Valley Ci
ty Times Record. It has been distressing and informative and helps me to understand more about what my fellow students are going through.I view the email traffic of the class, dance, and lecture cancellations. I see students organizing there own sandbagging sessions and I have seen a student body, faculty and staff pull together to do what is right during this natural disaster and I am impressed.
I wish a safe and happy holiday for everyone who resides in Valley City, ND and the surrounding areas this Easter (or Passover) and hope that soon this trying time will be behind you.
Happy Easter!
The flood has definitely been crazy! It is wonderful to know that the community can come together in disasters like this. Having so many classes be cancelled within the last month is almost getting out of control. There is nothing to do about it,and it was fun at first with no class, but now it's getting old.
ReplyDeleteLike you, I am also a 100% online student. However, I live in Fargo, where we are also dealing with flooding and flood relief efforts. It has been heartwarming to see the way our communities have joined together to keep our cities safe.
ReplyDeleteThere was an article about the flood in the Boston Globe recently, and there was a blog attached to it for readers to share their comments. One of the readers wanted to point out to everyone what the world WAS NOT seeing throughout this disaster: no looting, no burning down of property, no murders, no gang activity, etc.
Even though we were not trying to promote the Red River Valley, we certainly did throughout the last couple of weeks. Talk about a friendly place to live!!
Even I, living in Valley City, am impressed with how this community is sticking together and working together. Its great to see how many people are making time to help this town. Even college students that are not from these parts exactly go up to sandbag central and help out. I think that is way cool of them (but what else could one do when they cancel classes?). I am just thoroughly impressed by this town. Hopefully we'll make it through it with flying colors.
ReplyDelete