Sunday, May 20, 2012

Gay Charlotte - Natalie - Day 6

 So we ran out of bananas today. In happier news, today we headed over to the LGBT Center to work with Campus Pride!

Campus Pride is an organization that works with college campuses around the country to assist with programming and social events, and is a place where people can go for a number of LGBTQ resources related to college. We worked with Matt, the Web Master of the Campus Pride website, to transfer data to their new website. He explained that they were creating a single platform for Campus Pride resources instead of what they have in right now - multiple websites for their data. I had a lot of fun using the love of my life, Wordpress, and I think others enjoyed getting to know the platform as well.
Some of us bought friendship bracelets at Target.

Later on we had a picnic in a park near the church, went to Target two more times and played Telephone Pictionary. Ashley and I cooked a delicious dinner of pancakes and sausage. Mitch would like me to tell you that he also flipped a few pancakes, and they were abundantly adequate. We also may or may not have blown flour into Blake’s face. After consuming our delicious meal, the group headed uptown. We had frozen yogurt while discussing conspiracy theories, politics and being stuck in the friend zone.

Right after fro-yo we had one of the most interesting experiences thus far. Leah began talking to a nicer looking older man at a hot dog stand. He asked why we were here in Charlotte, we explained, and he then proceeded to rant about the horrors of homosexuality. Leah handled the situation superbly and attempted to educate him. Sometimes though, there is no leeway to be had. This lead us to form our trip’s motto: Never meet someone at a hot dog stand.

Have an enlightening day!

-Natalie Parker

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