2014 Service Study Break to Guatemala
Center for Civic Engagement
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06/30/2016
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students traveled to Guatemala to build concrete block houses for rural families.
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- [00:00:05.448]♫ It's a really old city
- [00:00:07.956]♫ Split between the dead and the living
- [00:00:11.052]♫ So I thought to myself
- [00:00:13.668]♫ Sitting on a graveyard shelf
- [00:00:17.347]♫ As the echo of heartbeats
- [00:00:19.606]♫ From the ground below my feet
- [00:00:22.865]♫ Filled a cemetery
- [00:00:25.495]♫ In the center of Queens
- [00:00:28.561]♫ I started running the maze of
- [00:00:31.553]♫ The names and the dates
- [00:00:33.410]♫ Some older than others
- [00:00:36.615]♫ The skyscrapers, little tombstone brothers
- [00:00:40.184]♫ With Manhattan behind her
- [00:00:42.788]♫ Three million stunning reminders
- [00:00:45.832]♫ Built a cemetery
- [00:00:48.931]♫ In the center of Queens
- [00:00:50.828]♫ You said
- [00:00:52.823]♫ Remember that life is
- [00:00:55.487]♫ Not meant to be wasted
- [00:00:58.871]♫ We can always be chasing the sun
- [00:01:03.222]♫ So fill up your lungs and just run
- [00:01:11.094]♫ We'll always be chasing the sun
- [00:01:15.365]♫ So how do you do it
- [00:01:17.743]♫ With just words and just music
- [00:01:21.120]♫ Capture the feeling
- [00:01:23.246]♫ That my earth is somebody's ceiling
- [00:01:26.738]♫ Can I deliver in sound
- [00:01:29.925]♫ The weight of the ground
- [00:01:32.702]♫ Of a cemetery
- [00:01:35.528]♫ In the center of Queens
- [00:01:38.422]♫ There's a history through her
- [00:01:40.488]♫ Sent to us as a gift from the future
- [00:01:44.178]♫ To show us the proof
- [00:01:46.458]♫ More than that, it's to dare us to move
- [00:01:50.059]♫ And to open our eyes
- [00:01:52.984]♫ And to learn from the sky
- [00:01:55.939]♫ From a cemetery
- [00:01:58.926]♫ In the center of Queens
- [00:02:00.672]♫ You said
- [00:02:02.649]♫ Remember that life is
- [00:02:05.332]♫ Not meant to be wasted
- [00:02:08.816]♫ We can always be chasing the sun
- [00:02:12.831]♫ So fill up your lungs and just run
- [00:02:20.811]♫ We'll always be chasing the sun
- [00:02:25.341]♫ All we can do is try
- [00:02:36.794]♫ And live like we're still alive
- [00:02:48.137]♫ It's a really old city
- [00:02:50.796]♫ Split between the dead and the living
- [00:02:53.923]♫ So I thought to myself
- [00:02:56.498]♫ Sitting on a graveyard shelf
- [00:02:59.900]♫ And the gift of my heartbeat
- [00:03:02.460]♫ Sounds like a symphony
- [00:03:05.356]♫ Played by a cemetery
- [00:03:08.576]♫ In the center of Queens
- [00:03:13.189]♫ You said
- [00:03:15.167]♫ Remember that life is
- [00:03:17.966]♫ Not meant to be wasted
- [00:03:21.305]♫ We can always be chasing the sun
- [00:03:25.513]♫ So fill up your lungs and just run
- [00:03:33.523]♫ We'll always be chasing the sun
- [00:03:37.944]♫ All we can do is try
- [00:03:49.374]♫ And live like we're still alive
- [00:04:01.326]♫ All we can do is try
- [00:04:12.653]♫ And live like we're still alive ♫
- [00:04:30.552]("The Sophomore" by Ben Rector)
- [00:04:43.850]♫ I don't have too much to say
- [00:04:47.052]♫ Except for a change in weather
- [00:04:49.941]♫ Today is the same as yesterday
- [00:04:53.201]♫ Stuck in a sophomore effort
- [00:04:55.590]♫ So much I don't know
- [00:05:02.481]♫ Don't know why we fear the change
- [00:05:05.993]♫ When we've only just begun
- [00:05:08.836]♫ Because with fear comes hope the same
- [00:05:11.912]♫ And tomorrow's gonna come
- [00:05:14.490]♫ So much I don't know
- [00:05:20.080]♫ There's so much I don't know
- [00:05:33.593]♫ And you find you're holding on
- [00:05:37.333]♫ To everything you know
- [00:05:39.927]♫ But the strength to move beyond
- [00:05:43.422]♫ Is found in letting go
- [00:05:45.533]♫ So much I don't know
- [00:05:51.250]♫ There's so much I don't know
- [00:05:57.492]♫ There's so much I don't know
- [00:06:03.773]♫ There's so much I don't know
- [00:06:11.675]♫ It's like learning how to drive
- [00:06:14.649]♫ On a crowded highway
- [00:06:17.515]♫ Whether this dies or stays alive
- [00:06:20.979]♫ I did it my way
- [00:06:22.974]♫ I know that the adventure's gone
- [00:06:27.254]♫ It's the second time I
- [00:06:30.120]♫ Find that what is lost
- [00:06:32.510]♫ Is replaced by grace that I find
- [00:06:35.456]♫ So much I don't know
- [00:06:41.352]♫ There's so much I don't know
- [00:06:47.353]♫ There's so much I don't know
- [00:06:53.620]♫ There's so much I don't know ♫
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