Get Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready

Get ready as I will begin updating the blog from my last entry of going to France and what spiraled from there!

TwitterChat Part I

Join Jesse Andrews for a TwitterChat Friday, March 16 2012 at 6 pm as we discuss crucial issues about parenting today. Here's how to join me: --At 6 pm est visit Jesse's twitter at http://www.twitter.com/bjdandrews. --Follow along with this hashtag #ptchat --Participate by sharing your ideas, and asking questions as he moderates and posses questions discussion topics. Spread the news!

Merry Christmas

My Summer Voyage

Good Evening Family & Friends,
I hope this email find you being successful and purposeful in your endeavors to create a better today, tomorrow, and embrace the lessons of yesterday!
As many of you may know or are finding out for the first time. I will be in France this summer for my study abroad in Mathematics and French Courses. This was an opportunity that I have been blessed in planning and anticipating for a year. The time has come for me to embrace the swift summer transition and I wanted to ensure that you were abreast of the wonderful things that are taking place in my life, as many of you have invested so much into my life, and for that I am eternally grateful. Your hearts have been touched by the many advocacy projects and community engagement assignments that I have been blessed to work with you on so many occasions. All this information is posted as well on my blog. It will be through my blog that I will keep you informed as well through pictures and articles concerning the experience. In an effort to cut cost hear and there, my phone is inactive until my return, and the best way to reach and communicate effectively with me is through email, Facebook, Twitter, and Skype.
My username for all of it is: Bjdandrews
My Blog information is: www.jdcollegeexperience.blogspot.com
If you can not find me please do not hesitate to ask me and I will gladly assist you.
My summer is quite eventful as I will be:
College Tour
May 8-13
France
May 14-June 19
Washington D.C.~ United Health Conference
June 21-23
Hawaii~ Green Hawaii Youth Conference
June 27th-July 1st
California~ Fresno, Ca
July 3rd-29th
Atlanta ~ School Preparatory Period
August 30th
Whew! That is quite a lot! But its well worth it! As I endeavor to serve people and help change lives, I want to encourage you to pray, keep me in mind, and periodically contact me.
Lastly, I would love to share these awesome experiences with you all, please do not hesitate to ask me. The only thing I ask is that you do it in a timely manner.

Well, IM OFF!
Unto You Exceeding Great and Precious Promises,
Jesse DeMonte Andrews '13 
Community Youth Leader
Youth Journalist

830 Westview Dr., S.W.
PO Box 141983
Atlanta, Ga 30314
770.885.8881

The Exception Campaign

Join In Giving Today, Exception Campaign

Scholarship Campaign Coming To You

“A saving remnant continually survives and persists, continually aspires, continually shows itself in thrift and ability and character.” –W.E.B. DuBois

Dear Family, Friends & Supporters,

I want to inform you about an awesome campaign that you can help make a reality. This campaign will change lives, turn tides in history, and give meaning to the way philanthropic behavior presents itself in our modern day society. Entrepreneurship is a French derived word that means, according to the Princeton Word Dictionary, as someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it. This is nothing new to my spectrum of work and expertise, as I have challenged the wealth figures in the nation whom politics deemed intangible. I have spoken up against youth inequality and the right to voice their concerns on many of the pressing decisions made by the “grown up” generation. I have placed hope back into the hearts of more than one hundred school dropouts to continue their education. Taking risks is what I am quite familiar with.

I want to introduce you to an innovative idea that has never been charted by the young minds of society. This idea is simply the:

“The Exception Campaign”

We have all heard that, “It takes a Village to Raise A Child”, but what is expected of those children whose villages are corrupt with gang violence, racial discrimination, drug abuse, and hopelessness? This campaign is designed for just that reason and a little deeper. Many do succumb to the pressures of their environment, and yet many have become the exception to the game players of life. Those exceptions need our support and our help with educational expenses.

I want to personally invite you to support this awesome campaign with a $20 donation. When you donate, 10% of the proceeds will be given to the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Breast Cancer Association. Take this opportunity to Give Today!

Yours Truly,

Jesse DeMonte Andrews

Boy, Time Flies When You Are Having Fun!

This summer was an expedition that I will never forget as I had spent six weeks in the Blue Grass State herself, Kentucky! What a wonderful experience that was being able to meet 80 other interesting young people. Now, since the last time I left you, I left you with the impression that I was going to Ghana, Africa, things had changed as I couldn’t purchase my passport just yet. But just as sure as I writing you today, I will have a passport this year!

I want to make sure that you all are aware of my goals and objectives when it comes to studying abroad. It is imperative that I take advantage of the opportunity during the summers because the rigorous curriculum at Morehouse College would not permit the leisure of engaging in activities such as study abroad during the school semesters. When I do study abroad my desire and intent is to study abroad in China. I want to be able to understand and research the various methodological approaches to medicine in the Chinese cultures and traditions.

My journey started with Amtrak! I am an Amtrak Scholar, so I was given a voucher to ride Amtrak and what better way to experience the East Coast than going through the “Eastern Frontiers”. I witnessed the beautiful states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, DC, Chicago, Il, Ohio, Maryland, and Indiana.

I was a part of the AAMC’s Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) at the University of Louisville. This program is designed to expose pre-medical/dental students to the life of medical/dental school as future practicing physicians. This program in Louisville is one of the many sites that this program is held at. I chose Louisville because of the organized schedule, the stipend, and the opportunity to be in a place that I have never been before. I got just that and more! This 6 week program helped me understand calcium, insulin and cardiovascular diseases and a host of other things, that you would not have the time to sit here and read, but just know when I become a doctor and you step in my office you will walk out aware of these concepts and such. I had the opportunity to enjoy Kentucky cuisine such as Derby Pie! You have not had pie until you have had the pleasure of delighting yourself with Derby Pie. Also, I got to see awesome sites like the famous Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. People from all over the world flock every year to experience the Kentucky Derby and I got to see and learn how it all happens. I had the privilege to fellowship with the Bible Way Church of God in Christ Family, and befriend others from around the country, like Jonathan Davies, Norbert Rosario, Shanda Lewis and many others. The staff were very hospitable and excellent in the execution of leadership and knowledge. Lastly, I thank God for the hard, untiring work of Dr. James Railey, and Dr. Silvia Cole who made a big impact on my life as I was able to commit to the decision of achieving my MD in Internal Medicine.

As you can read I had an awesome summer and one I will hopefully never forget! As school starts I have also made some bigger decisions in the way of growth and development in my life. I have an apartment with two of the world’s best innovative leaders, I could not find anywhere else, Aaron M. Hargrove and Christopher M. Holloway Jr.

To be able to be who I am and to develop into such an awesome young man (yes, I made a conceited statement) I would be regretful not to thanks ALL who had made this possible. I want to thank the men and women who invested not only their time, but money, into the success and accomplishments that have allowed me to have such an experience. I humbly bow in gratitude to thank you!

Continue to stay encourage as I continue to become:

Well Balanced, Well Dressed, Well Read, Well Traveled, and Well Balanced!

Yours truly,

Jesse DeMonte Andrews