Southeast Team

en·cour·age verb \in-ˈkər-ij, -ˈkə-rij, en-\ en·cour·aged...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:17:23 -0400

en·cour·age verb \in-ˈkər-ij, -ˈkə-rij, en-\

en·cour·aged en·cour·ag·ing

Definition of ENCOURAGE

transitive verb

a : to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope : hearten

2 : to spur on : stimulate

Thank you! Thank you Miller Grove HS and Thank you Ashley. As much as you guys feel like us Nomads (no matter what team or region) impact you, it is important that you know just how much you do the same for us. We’re all in this together.

Would a dryer explode if you kept it on too long?

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:24:45 -0400

As a team we are conducting an experiment. It’s rare that we get to do laundry. Sometimes we go weeks with no use of a washer or dryer. We wear dirty, baggy, ugly, smelly jeans. We shower in nice, hot, clean, bubbly, flowery smelling bathrooms and then go put on t-shirts with pit stains back onto our bodies. It’s great.
Even greater than that is that moment when someone looks at our raggedy, smelly team and says “Do you guys have any laundry you need to do?” We love that question. Probably even more than we love the question “Are you guys hungry?”

Cause we do. And we are. Always. :)

LAST NIGHT we got the opportunity to do laundry. So we put our dirty clothes in the washer and let it spin. Then we put it in the dryer. but something happened. so when we got up this morning at 7:30am to leave (to drive 7 hours to Knoxville, Tennessee from Richmond(ish), Virginia) THE CLOTHES WERE WET.

So we dried them again.
and again.
and again.
but they won’t dry?

So we’re asking ourselves “Would a dryer explode if you kept it on too long?”

We’ll let you know how it goes.
XOXO
The Southeast Team.

Jess’s 2nd motorcycle ride ever!

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:06:03 -0400

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Jess’s 2nd motorcycle ride ever!

HANNAH RYU! It’s always a treat to meet Nomad OG’s...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:30:10 -0400

HANNAH RYU!
It’s always a treat to meet Nomad OG’s and share stories from the road.
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handtohandnc: Here are photos from last Tuesday’s event! it was...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:24:53 -0400

handtohandnc:

Here are photos from last Tuesday’s event! it was SUCH a BLAST!

This Screening was really awesome. It’s so great to see a community come together like Greensboro did. THANKS GUYS.
XOXO

No sleep. Ever.

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:20:48 -0400

No sleep. Ever.

Visible School in Memphis! Jess, you rock! SOUTHBEAST!

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:02:53 -0400

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Visible School in Memphis! Jess, you rock! SOUTHBEAST!

handtohandnc: DO NOT FORGET! THIS TUESDAY THIS IS HAPPENING....

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:39:52 -0400

handtohandnc:

DO NOT FORGET! THIS TUESDAY THIS IS HAPPENING. YOUR HEART WILL EXPLODE. PIZZA. NORTH KOREA. LiNK. CRAFTING. BE THERE<3

This is our most exciting Screening yet.

Asheville, North Carolina. Today we woke up early and went...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:57:44 -0400

Asheville, North Carolina. Today we woke up early and went hiking around Looking Glass Falls. Thats us right up there. Freezing our butts off standing in the mist that came off the falls. Sean couldn’t climb some stuff because of his bum knee. Jessica almost fell into the water getting out to those there rocks. I tried to boulder this one rock but I fell off and twisted my ankle. We saw exactly two millipedes. It was awesome.

Now we’re gonna go explore downtown. It’s gonna be great.

XOXO
Jess Stephan

handtohandnc: OUR FIRST EVENT FOR THE SPRING IS THIS COMING...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:50:17 -0400

handtohandnc:

OUR FIRST EVENT FOR THE SPRING IS THIS COMING TUESDAY MARCH 20! WILL BE CO-HOSTING WITH CIVIC THREADS AND THE FIRST OF MANY COLLABORATIONS TO COME!

THERE WILL BE FREE PIZZA FROM MELLOW MUSHROOM AND CRAFTIVISM! COME OUT COME OUT AND SUPPORT A GOOD CAUSE!

This is happening on Tuesday night and Jessica, Sean and I are SUPER PUMPED. We got to listen to the radio interview the LOVELY William Hudson Clayton and Tristin Miller/hang out with Tristan at The Green Bean (a swanky lil’ coffee shop in Greensboro). They’re makin’ moves here in North Carolina, and we’re glad LiNK gets to be a part of it.

I don’t even know. People ask us what city we’re...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:59:29 -0500

Wendy's Monster.

Flagler College!

GO TEAM!

The Fort @ St. Augustine!

#Disney World #Swag

We me Mulan! #China #EPCOT

Beach TRIP #Miami

I don’t even know. People ask us what city we’re coming from and where we’re going next and every time we look at each other and go “Where were we just at? What city were we just in? Where do we have to be in a few hours?” Tour has been going by HELLA fast. We’re almost a third of the way through. CRAZY.

So far the big things that have happened were Chrissy almost broke down. We had to take her to the mechanic and get a coil changed?! INSANE. We got to go to Disney fo’ free! (one Nomad’s family is from the Orlando area and used to work at the Parks). We had some BOSS screenings too. People say pictures are worth a thousand words. So what I’m gonna do is post some pictures and throw a lil’ caption up under them. From here on out I’ll be better at updating this. I promise.

XOXO,
Jess Stephan

SIGN THE PETITION. SAVE MY FRIEND!

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:12:25 -0500

SIGN THE PETITION. SAVE MY FRIEND!

Thank You, Troy University!

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:12:22 -0500

Last night we booked it from Thompson High School in Alabaster, Alabama and just barely made it to Troy University in Troy, Alabama. It was their 125 year anniversary, and they celebrated with a tornado warning. A tornado warning!!

It was a friday night. The weather was dangerous. And people still came out. One Hundred of them. How amazing.

After the documentary there were great questions from the audience. We met one student, called Constantine, who had an incredible story about growing up in the Northeastern part of China, a town which many NK refugees would stumble into after escaping. After crossing the river. He told us about how even though he was close enough to the North Korean people to see them waving to him from the opposite bank, he never knew about the suffering they endured. He was inspired by “The People’s Crisis” and we were inspired by his stories and by his willingness to get involved.
You guys are what keep us Nomads going. To see your reactions to the issue and you’re willingness to DO SOMETHING reminds us why we’re in a van. driving through the night. sleeping on floors. eating whatever is given to us. not sleeping. and working hard. When we see how each person is impacted by the stories of North Korean refugees we are reminded just how important Awareness and Involvement is. We remember that even though we’re exhausted and stressed at times and might even want to kill each other, this tour is not about us and this tour is how we are coming alongside the North Korean people in their struggle toward liberty.

Thank you for being that for us.
xoxo The Southeast Team.

Save North Korean Refugees #SaveMyFriend - Sign the...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:44:14 -0500

Save North Korean Refugees #SaveMyFriend - Sign the Petition!

FRIENDS, Take a minute or two to sign this petition.
30 North Korean Refugees are at risk of being repatriated by the Chinese Government.
#Do Something.

Nelson Mandela said, “To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:18:24 -0500

Twelve years ago today Nelson Mandela was released after twenty-seven years in a South African prison for standing in direct opposition of the institutionalization of Apartheid. He became and influential leader and an icon for non-violence.

Something I found today on one of my favorite blogs read:
“Not many of us could sustain hope in the midst of such horrors as Apartheid South Africa. [Let us be thankful] for the witness of people like Nelson Mandela, who remind us that hope is a lifeline for those who hang by the threads of injustice. As long as there are people held in captivity, oppressed, and denied basic human rights, help us all to consider ourselves to be hanging by the same frail threads.”

From Portland, Oregon by way of Philadelphia,...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:06:06 -0500

From Portland, Oregon by way of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What excites me most about heading out on The People’s Tour is my anticipation of seeing people’s reaction to the truth of the North Korea Crisis. Excited for the chance to incite passion and share knowledge; for passion and knowledge are the things needed to sustain change.

My name is Ben Flower and I’m a British dude from...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:58:46 -0500

My name is Ben Flower and I’m a British dude from Washington State.

My favorite inspirational quote would have to be, “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved, except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance”.

What excites me most about LiNK and the upcoming trip is that ill have the opportunity to see brand new places I’ve never been before and present to people I’ve never met, although these things are also a little intimidating too.

REPPIN’ FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA!What excites Jessica...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:56:52 -0500

REPPIN’ FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA!

What excites Jessica most about tour is the chance to raise awareness of the North Korea crisis, raise the funds to rescue refugees and to get people involved in the cause!

Favorite Quote: “If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

LovedTheRoad

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:55:00 -0500

It seems just like yesterday when we were driving out with the Northeast Team on I-40 but it wasn’t that was 11 weeks ago and my, we have made so memories, met so many people, seen many places, and have changed.

11 weeks ago we were driving out of California to our first screening in Clarkville, AK

10 weeks ago we were in Memphis, TN

9 weeks ago we were in Nashville, TN

8 weeks ago we were in Lynchburg, VA

7 weeks ago we were in Raleigh, NC

6 weeks ago we were in Ashville, NC

5 weeks ago we were in Rockhill, SC

4 weeks ago we were in Atlanta, GA

3 weeks ago we were in still in Atlanta, GA

2 weeks ago we were in Pembroke Pines, FL

1 week ago we were in Tallahassee, FL

3 days ago we were in Mobile, AL

2 days ago we were in Huntsville, AL

1 day ago we were in Jackson, MS

Yesterday we’re in New Mexico driving back

This morning we woke up in the Grand Canyon

At this moment we have arrived where we first started.

California!

It seems so surreal that we are heading back to California. After 11 weeks of being on the road. 11 weeks full of driving from place to place, stopping at many gas stations, eating so much junk food, eating yummy southern food, sleeping on floors, sofas, and sometimes beds, meeting up with people we knew on the road, meeting total strangers who later became our friends, trying new things, talking about North Korea and our passions, listening to the radio, hearing “moves like Jagger” by Maroon 5 more than we can count on one hand, singing our hearts out, eating tons of sour patch kids, not showering, sleeping very little, doing crazy fun stuff with people we met at the screening, telling stories, being inspired by people, crying, praying, team meetings, calls, emails, taking pictures, using dirty restrooms in lonely gas stations, drinking coffee and tea like no other, asking/encouraging people to join the Reliance. 11 weeks full of growth and getting to know each other better. 11 weeks of traveling with two other friends sharing with the world about North Korea and the change needed. 11 weeks of doing what we love and for people we love.

If you could describe tour in a few words, what would they be?

Zane: “Life changing”

Paloma “wild and growing”

Jenna “exciting, exhausting, worth it”

We want to see an end to this human rights crisis!

We want to thank every single soul that we met, talked with, and stayed with. You all made every sacrifice worth it. Thank for hearing us out. Thank you for giving us a place to sleep. Thank you for coming to our screening. Thank you for hosting a screening. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for the positive vibes sent our way. Thank you for the laughs and smiles. Thank you for the food. Thank you for letting us use your internet. Thank you for coffee. Thank you for your encouraging words. Thank you for asking questions. Thank you for giving us tea. Thank you being part of our memorable journey. Thank you for talking with us. Thank you for joining the Reliance. Thank you for wanting to get involved. Thank you for caring for NK refugees. Thank you for your soul. It was a pleasure to meet you all. The southeast route, the people we met there, and this experience will forever have a special place in our hearts. Foreva!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Southeast last weekend in the EAST COAST

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:27:00 -0500

Saw the gulf of Mexico

Spotted a couple alligators!

St. Marks light house

And we got to hang out with Alison (and Macy)!! She’s so amazing. Thank you for letting us stay with you. You rock!