it will stay in my life forever.

One of the Chinese volunteers that helped the MU kids in Beijing wrote a blog about Beijing a year after the Olympics and how it has changed. I thought I would grow on that and explain how it has changed my life. I have never been that immersed in another culture — especially another culture so different from my own. And China was just the beginning. Fifty or so of us got to take part in one of the largest worldwide events ever. There were people from all corners of the earth, that spoke numerous languages and that all came for the same reason. I knew that being in Beijing for the games would be amazing, but I didn't quite know as it was happening. As I spend my 2009 summer in Columbia, Mo., working for the Missourian, I can't help but compare the magnitude of the two. It's ridiculous. The summer of 2008 was the summer of my lifetime so far and I am so thankful I got to do the things I did!