U2Bama
Rock n' Roll Doggie
In elementary school, middle school, and high school, I always dreaded those "essay contests" that we had to write for every Citizenship Day or whenever the Civitans had some type of Geography Fair. But after I completed my writing assignment, I felt satisfaction not from being finished with it but from the things it had helped me discover about my views and values. In high school, I went all the way to the Regional Social Studies Fair and won an "Honorable Mention" for my research essay on "The Social Impact of Rock Music."
During the Christmas season, sulawesigirl4 offered to share her U2 collection with members of the web-based community known as www.interference.com who were willing to express in poetry, prose or essay what U2 means to them. In return, sulawesigirl4 would reward each of the winners with a custom-made gift from her U2 collection.
It is not so much the physical rewards of this contest that turned out to be meaningful, as it was sulawesigirl4's innovative contest of intereferencer's own self-discovery; I am sure it allowed all of the participants an experience unlike one they would find in school. And sharing the entries with the rest of us allowed all of us to remember why we all like U2 as well, and what we have in common with other U2 fans when it comes to our musical tastes, political views, and even spiritual values.
Sulawesigirl4, the world traveller herself, has also enlightened many of us to the joys, and terrors, of living in far reaches of the earth. While we see war on our news everyday, she shared with us the concerns of minorities in her childhood home of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and inspired many of us to pray and do something about it.
And now we have the opportunity to post topics of spirituality exclusively in "The Goal Is Soul" forum, an innovation of 4ulawesigirl4 herself, and where she can now be found as a "mod."
Congratulations, sulawesigirl4, and sorry for the lateness of this thread.
~U2Alabama
During the Christmas season, sulawesigirl4 offered to share her U2 collection with members of the web-based community known as www.interference.com who were willing to express in poetry, prose or essay what U2 means to them. In return, sulawesigirl4 would reward each of the winners with a custom-made gift from her U2 collection.
It is not so much the physical rewards of this contest that turned out to be meaningful, as it was sulawesigirl4's innovative contest of intereferencer's own self-discovery; I am sure it allowed all of the participants an experience unlike one they would find in school. And sharing the entries with the rest of us allowed all of us to remember why we all like U2 as well, and what we have in common with other U2 fans when it comes to our musical tastes, political views, and even spiritual values.
Sulawesigirl4, the world traveller herself, has also enlightened many of us to the joys, and terrors, of living in far reaches of the earth. While we see war on our news everyday, she shared with us the concerns of minorities in her childhood home of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and inspired many of us to pray and do something about it.
And now we have the opportunity to post topics of spirituality exclusively in "The Goal Is Soul" forum, an innovation of 4ulawesigirl4 herself, and where she can now be found as a "mod."
Congratulations, sulawesigirl4, and sorry for the lateness of this thread.
~U2Alabama
