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The Louisville Winter Family Weekend is well-known among United Church of God teens for its wide variety of activities. Young people who attend often play sports such as basketball, volleyball and football. There are also seminars to attend and dances and other social events for meeting others. The variety of things to do is amazing.
Never in a million years would I have guessed that Dumpster diving would become one such activity for me.
And yet, there I was, hurriedly digging through the Dumpster behind the Clarion Hotel. I suppose such a scene requires a bit of an explanation, so here goes:
I like to draw. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, though it wasn't until recently that I've gotten any good at it. At any rate, I have this binder where I put all the drawings I'm really proud of—a portfolio, I guess you could call it.
Lost forever?
I took this binder to Louisville, Kentucky, for the annual winter weekend and made the mistake of forgetting it at the Family Fun Fair. The next day, after realizing it was missing, I started frantically searching for it, but had no luck. It held five years' worth of my artistic work, and, despite my prayers, I was sure that I'd lost it forever.
Thankfully, my story doesn't end there. One of my friends had the bright idea of actually asking the hotel staff if they'd seen my binder, and it quickly became "good news, bad news" time. The good news? They definitely remembered seeing a black binder. The bad news? They definitely remembered throwing that binder into the trash.
So with my binder currently making its residence in our hotel's Dumpster, I set out with a band of friends to retrieve it. It was by no means an easy task. The binder had been thrown out early that morning, and it was now mid-afternoon. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say it was one of the grossest undertakings I'd ever been involved in.
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