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A trip to Ecuador and Back

My trip to Ecuador with the volunteers from Park City was a wild success. We worked in two communities that we loved. We adopted a dog, worked on two school, had locals dare us to climb a 20ft greased pole and watched a little something called the Vaca Loca (crazy cow). We only had one near-death experience and only one of the crew came home with scabies (me--yuck). It was a wonderful trip. Tonight I am heading to the reunion. We're going to hear a band play, eat delicious food, watch a slide show and remember the good time we had.

Just in case you don't believe me that we had an excellent trip, here's a video to prove it (Video courtesy of Caleb Braley--one of our excellent Ecuadorian interns)

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I Tube, Youtube, We tube...

Summer at the Ascend office is always fun. People are getting in their vacations and it's our last relaxing moment before we swing into full-scale panic mode before our annual fundraiser. Summer is also a good time because the office is buzzing with interns. This year we decided not only to test the prowess of the interns in our work environment but we also created a special challenge. Interns could break into teams of 2 and make a youtube video about what we do to post online. They would have 2 weeks to get as many views as possible. The winners would get a killer prize (which I promised would not be from the dollar store as the majority of my prizes are)

3 sets of interns took the challenge. Watch the videos. You decide who wins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahFUTn_sFWA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX0G2Lslgxo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxx0yWMGl3o

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