RELAY FOR LIFE
Just got back from the Relay For Life Kick-off Meeting, organized by this group of young energetic seniors, passionate about saving lives. It's a nationwide fund-raising event, jointly org by the American Cancer Society to raise funds for of course, cancer research and supporting cancer patients. This is the third year UPenn's holding the relay, and its on 1st and 2nd of April, from 7pm-7am, that's 12 hours. Basically, teams (10-15 members) are formed beforehand and they fund-raise with the aim of raising $100 each team member. On the actual event day(s), each team has a little campsite on Franklin Field, and there must be at least 1 team member walking around the track at all times, to symbolize that cancer never sleeps. There are other games and fun activities, not to mentioned food planned for the evening too.
The meeting started off with a great video - showing last year's event, the amount raised nationwide ($10 million!) and the on-the-spot interviews with participants, cancer survivors and teams who came in different themes. The 2 most touching moments of the video were when the survivors walked the first lap around the track and when this girl (chairperson maybe) gave a very touching speech in the form of a poem afterwhich the participants lit candles of hope for the cancer patients who were unable to survive the disease.
Teams cheered by the sidelines as they watched the cancer survivors, wearing sashes that spelt SURVIVORS, walk the laply proudly as a contingent. This lap serves to remind the survivors of the pain and suffering they went through, and the eventual triumph of outwitting, outplaying and outlasting the fatal disease. The second moment that had me almost, just almost sniffling was when this girl gave a beautiful speech in the form of a poem that was almost reaching to past patients who could not survive cancer, telling them that as the people continue to light candles of hope to remember them by, the light symbolizes hope and with the amount of research and personnel effort dedicated to cancer, the future's looking bright. This is our warcry: No one should ever lose their life to cancer again.
People can participate by forming teams of 10-15 people, but we (exchange students from NUS and SMU) have planned a long time to go to chicago on the same weekend. sigh. I'm just so touched by this event, and so excited about Chicago that I wish I could be there for both! I suppose I can't be there physically on the 1st and 2nd, so i'll sign up to be a sub-comm member. Hopefully one of the subcomms wouldn't mind an extra helping hand! The few that looked pretty interesting were Activities, Survivalship and Accounts&Registration. It's been so long since I've joined a committee and months since I've organized anything I can truly call my own. I really love organizing stuff.. and if it's something i truly care about, there's this passion burning within me to make it the best that i possibly can.
I really hope I can firstly, get into the subcomm, and secondly contributeandcontributeandcontribute.
Yay for wendy and sharon who are both interested to join as well! =D
Okays.. enough gushing about cancer. That's just wrong.
I hope this turns out to be a fabulous extra curricular activity that I can learn alot from! =)
The meeting started off with a great video - showing last year's event, the amount raised nationwide ($10 million!) and the on-the-spot interviews with participants, cancer survivors and teams who came in different themes. The 2 most touching moments of the video were when the survivors walked the first lap around the track and when this girl (chairperson maybe) gave a very touching speech in the form of a poem afterwhich the participants lit candles of hope for the cancer patients who were unable to survive the disease.
Teams cheered by the sidelines as they watched the cancer survivors, wearing sashes that spelt SURVIVORS, walk the laply proudly as a contingent. This lap serves to remind the survivors of the pain and suffering they went through, and the eventual triumph of outwitting, outplaying and outlasting the fatal disease. The second moment that had me almost, just almost sniffling was when this girl gave a beautiful speech in the form of a poem that was almost reaching to past patients who could not survive cancer, telling them that as the people continue to light candles of hope to remember them by, the light symbolizes hope and with the amount of research and personnel effort dedicated to cancer, the future's looking bright. This is our warcry: No one should ever lose their life to cancer again.
People can participate by forming teams of 10-15 people, but we (exchange students from NUS and SMU) have planned a long time to go to chicago on the same weekend. sigh. I'm just so touched by this event, and so excited about Chicago that I wish I could be there for both! I suppose I can't be there physically on the 1st and 2nd, so i'll sign up to be a sub-comm member. Hopefully one of the subcomms wouldn't mind an extra helping hand! The few that looked pretty interesting were Activities, Survivalship and Accounts&Registration. It's been so long since I've joined a committee and months since I've organized anything I can truly call my own. I really love organizing stuff.. and if it's something i truly care about, there's this passion burning within me to make it the best that i possibly can.
I really hope I can firstly, get into the subcomm, and secondly contributeandcontributeandcontribute.
Yay for wendy and sharon who are both interested to join as well! =D
Okays.. enough gushing about cancer. That's just wrong.
I hope this turns out to be a fabulous extra curricular activity that I can learn alot from! =)
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