Im excited the days has come!

Hi Jack - I hope to get to meet you at the conference. I've been to a bunch and here's some things I enjoyed and gained: - feeling free to ask people around me to explain terms I didn't understand, or aksing the presenter to slow down if they are going too fast! - leaving a session if it's a sleepy afternoon and I'm falling asleep during a slide show, and hanging out in the hallways and lobby where people are still sharing information and scheming what to do as activists - putting faces to names I've just seen on email - going home with an expanded set of contacts I can turn to for help and support - feeling inspired about what we can do when we work together

Julie Davids

COMMUNITY HIV/AIDS MOBLIZATION PROJECT (CHAMP)

www.champwork.org

Thanks Julie I really appreciate your kind words of encouragement and advice as to how to gain valuable knowledge and experiences while attending conferences and forums such as this one here in Baltimore. I heard of your name numerous times in the HIV Feild and in NYC area but I never met you and I will track you down and take a picture for my blog since you have taken my blog virginity you were my first!!!! thanks and I look forward in the walk of HIV/AIDS treatment, advocacy and research road to a cure!!!

Thanks Julie I really appreciate your kind words of encouragement and advice as to how to gain valuable knowledge and experiences while attending conferences and forums such as this one here in Baltimore. I heard of your name numerous times in the HIV Feild and in NYC area but I never met you and I will track you down and take a picture for my blog since you have taken my blog virginity you were my first!!!! thanks and I look forward in the walk of HIV/AIDS treatment, advocacy and research road to a cure!!!