I was recently elected to serve as their 2010-2011 Southern Region Vice President. I will oversee the twelve southern states that make up the Southern Region of Phi Beta Lambda. The Southern Region Vice President is one of the nine national officer positions that govern the nearly 11,000 student members of this organization.

We are now getting ready for our National Officer Training (N.O.T. as I like to call it!) and I found out that on my second flight I get to travel with out National Secretary. It is kind of cool that we can come from two different parts of the US and happen to end up on the same flight coming from Atlanta to Reston and be sitting next to each other. Now I know they most likely set that up, but it is awesome. Now we can plot how to take over everything as we travel.

Anyways thats my short update!

Dr. Reed and Dr. Denman got shot and killed.

• Reed to the head surprise shot. Dead right away.. found by April after she tripped over her into all the blood.
• Denman an abdominal shot. Dr. Baily wasn’t able to get him to an OR to be able to operate or anything. Was kind of sad to see him pass away in Baily’s lab after confessing his love for Dr. Reed and telling Baily that she was his favorite doctor.

Dr.s Sheppard, Hunt , Karev all got shot.

• Sheppard a chest with the bullet lodged in his chest. Dr. Yang was the only doctor that was around to do the surgery. It was very scary thing. Pig or Cow? That is the question.
• Hunt got a shoulder wound trying to stop the shooter from shooting Dr. Grey
• Karev got shot when walking in on the shooters first shot.
• Dr Grey (big) was pregnant and ended up having a miscarriage due to the stress of the whole situation.

Overall it was a GREAT episode. I can’t believe that its over for the summer. Mostly the worst thing is waiting till next fall for it to start back up!

Every baby has their own story. This story can be great, “I was born healthy to a great family,” or it can be bad, “I was born premature, and passed away.”

Everyone has their own reasons for supporting the March of Dimes and their mission to help prevent birth defects, prematurity, and infant mortality. I have heard stories from the way people’s lives are effected because a brother or sister was born premature, someones kids were born premature, or even someones grandchildren were born premature.

This is why I implore you, beg you, and plead with you to make a donation to this cause! I have worked with the March of Dimes for four years now and I find out need information all the time.

Currently 1 out of every 8 babies in Arkansas are born premature
Currently 101 babies are born premature EVERY week in the state of Arkansas

This is why I fight for them. This is why I care about supporting the March of Dimes. It is through the dedication and efforts of millions of Volunteers that this mission will come true.

Check out: http://www.marchforbabies.org for more information or go to http://www.marchforbabies.org/AaronCarroll to make a donation!

I got to first go to the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) which falls in with my March of Dimes volunteering. It is sooooo touching to see these little guys and girls fighting to stay alive.

The second thing I got to do was sit in on a Surgery. This has to be the best thing I have done and help me make the final call for what I want to be. I loved watching the surgery and knowing what was going on. It was very interesting to see the Dr’s doing their work, and no I wasn’t behind a glass wall. I was in the room with the Drs.. looking over their shoulders.

And before all that we had a GREAT speech that told you that a Dr’s true job is to remove the fear in medicine and sickness. Its not the healing its the removing fear. To be able to tell someone, I can fix that you take away the fear that something could kill you.

So I am now going to be a General Surgeon… now to just get my BA in Chem, then my MD so I can go and do Surg Residency.

Okay so I am on 3/214 of the SG-1 Episodes = 1.40% of them watched.

Thus far Major Charles Kawalsky has been having one heck of a time. He got his own command, and then he gets infected with a Goa’uld, now he is currently up for death

So I think its kind of interesting. I like the show thus far. Little slow and then a little fast. I think I will keep watching these and see how they go. I mean hey its at least something to keep me going for a while. I mean 214 episodes is just crazy!

Well see you on the other side of the Stargate!

You show the world exactly what you want to show. Besides being good at reading people, you also know how you’re being read.
You know when you’re being manipulated, and you know how to manipulate someone if you have to. You usually don’t resort to it though!

Fight for Preemies
Take the time to go by the National Website and learn more about the March of Dimes and their Fight for Preemies

Fight for Preemies // Bloggers Unite
Take the chance to sign up and support the March of Dimes and their Fight for Preemies! So far many people have signed up to blog about the March of Dimes and their efforts in saving the lives of babies.

Fight for Preemies

You have just watched a very touching video. It talks about how many, many people go through their everyday lives with problems such as having a premature baby. It is the way things happen even for those that do EVERYTHING right sometimes.

Many times we take for granted the healthy lives that we live and forget that many people don’t get the chance to have the same lives that we do.

Prematurity is a serious health problem. A preterm birth is considered to happen to any baby that is born prior to the 37 week of gestation. Any child born before the 37 weeks is premature. To put this in perspective: 500,000+ babies are born premature in the United State a year.

How Prematurity Affects Us

Many people today look around and say “Why should I care? How does it affect me?”

I have to answer that question with the fact that at least one person in your family or your close friends have been born or know someone that has been born premature. If you happen to not, then you either live in a shoebox and have very few friends and family, have never asked about it, or you are just very lucky.

Some day many of us will grow up and take on lives and roles as productive citizens. Part of that role is looked at as becoming parents. Parents of babies. Babies that may, or may not, be born premature. So how does this affect you? It is an emotional, mental, and physical stress. It is an economical, spiritual, and relentlessness stress.

So why not stand up against this now, while you still have time to help save the lives of others? Why not take the time to possibly help save the life of your own child?

Take the Time

Take the time to give the slightest chance to a baby. Use your Facebook status, Tweets, E-mail Signatures, or anything else you use to spread the word about this mission. Tell the very core of your friends why you take the time to save the lives of babies by helping fund the mission of the March of Dimes, by becoming an advocate for those without a voice, by helping improve upon the education for teens and young adults about Pregnacy.

Find your Local or State Chapter by going to: http://www.marchofdimes.com/chapter_view_all.asp

Find your State and then take some time to get out there and find out how you can help save those lives!

“Like branches of a tree we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other’s.”
—Unknown

Life, it is the unknown that shall always confuse us. However, the time has come in everyone’s life when they know it is time to let go of some things. The quote above tells us that even though we have moved apart during this current times we have effected others lives with what we have done while together.

In 22 days I turn 20 years old. Times have come that I change who I am, and become a better person for that. Time has come that I take a stance against the errors of the world and make my own self known.

Today, I talked to a friend, that is so close I used to consider a Brother, for the first time in about a week, and honestly I didn’t care for what he spoke. It was like we were strained to be able to say hello to each other and ask how things where going. Life put us together during High School, but in College it has torn us apart. He is the college drop out that is happy with being in a factory for the rest of his life. I am in College striving to make myself better than that. Better than my father that is a factory worker and better than my mother that is a nurse.

In many ways I don’t know why i strive so hard, but I do.

This week has marked myself as trying to come to terms with whats going on in my life and making some changes to better myself. I shall strive to study harder and prepare myself for the classes that lay ahead.

So its just a matter of days before the new crazy days of classes start up.

Just to give you an idea of what it all is going to be like the first week here is a PDF version of what I will be doing. I hope you all love it..

aaronsamerica.com/fwc-aug24.pdf

Phi Beta Lambda

Okay so its starting back up again. I am honestly pumped about it. I know I only have a few months left as a state officer, but I feel this year will be a turning point for ASU PBL! We have a great new co-advisor and an awesome officer team for ASU.

On the state level the team is ready for everything and anything. We are all kind of on the same wave length. We all had a great time planning out our POW/A and loved the changes that we made to it.

I think the Fall Conference will be a blast! Atleast it will be something big for Harrison when you have around 100 students from all over the state in one small place. Lucky for us.. we are just 30 minutes or so away from Branson!

March of Dimes

Okay so this is also a busy time for the March of Dimes! We are getting together and working on several new ideas and projects! One of them is working on a Pagent for awerness and a fundraiser.

The other is working on the Chef’s Auction. It is going to be awesome we have all sorts planned out.

Also Little Rock is getting a group together and I have been asked to go down there and help interview members for their youth council. I am pretty pumped about everything that is going on int he March of Dimes work!

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