End of Week 3 by the numbers

944 Screenings booked out of 1,700 (56%)

Team Pacific Northwest – 50 screenings (50%)

Total estimated attendance: 316,403

PNW estimated attendance: 18,590

Day left to book: 11 business day!

Wow. We launch on Feb. 16 and there still remains an epic amount of work to be finished. But, don’t be alarmed. I still am optimistic and have a positive attitude.

For your enjoyment: Spencer putting a screening "On the map."

Great Contacts

A high-schooler booked a 1,000 person all-school assembly today at a 1st time school. Amazing.

Responsibility

I thought that representing the US as a Peace Corps Volunteer was a lot of weight on my shoulders. Being a roadie with Invisible Children makes me feel like I need to train for the world's strongest man competition. If we don't meet our goals, our programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo don't happen. Time to get down to business. Thank you team PNW for being so awesome!

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1/25

Booked 2 screenings today! One is at a church and the other at a Paul Mitchell Institute. Seriously. Who would have guessed? Also, I received my new phone, so send me a message?

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1/24

I'm so impressed by High School Students in Greater Washington State. If I was as mature as some of them are at the age of 17, I could be Obama right now.

Enrique is very optimistic/hopeful tonight.

Yay or Nay on my potential bio:

Eric Murphy grew up on the barrier island of Long Beach, New York. He was quite the fish until he volunteered with the Peace Corps in Paraguay, a land-locked country. He quickly lost his sea legs and became quite the Jungle Cat. Eric is now headed to the Pacific Northwest where he is looking forward to Steve Prefontaine, the Puget Sound, and Black Bears.

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Buenas Noches

1/21-1/23

1. Mount Soledad left me speechless. See previous picture

2. Broke my cellphone. Will have a new one on Wednesday

3. Played Monopoly. Spencer hustled us

4. Played an amazing game of running charades. Can't wait to teach all of you

5. Found out that Team Pacific Northwest is premiering TONY in San Francisco

6. Shaved off my beard. I look 18 again

Off to bed, must book some screenings tomorrow!

Mount Soledad

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Back to the future

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my teammate

Let's make this go viral!

I HIT THE GONG!

*This means I booked my first screening! Congratulate me :)

A hopeful case of the Mondays

I have a confession to make. I'm cocky and sometimes a little too confident. For those of you who know me, I'm sure you are saying "duh Eric, we already knew that, but it's about time you realized it." Once again, this internship has acted as gravity and brought me back down to earth.

*What happened today that you feel this way?

So glad you asked! Well, part our training is to "book" our tour. That means, lots of emails, cold calling, the practice of patience, phone calls, more emails, more cold calling, more patience, more phone calls, repeat.

We do this until we are sent back a screening agreement, at which point are allowed to ring a gong. Yes, we do have a giant gong in the office. Every roadie dreams about the beautiful noise that it makes when it is rung and cheers when a fellow roadie gets up to ring it. *I have not had the opportunity to produce this beautiful noise yet, but rest assured, that when I do, there will be a video to prove it.

P.S. In my own twisted way I just explained why I was yet again humbled today. Tons of work and not 1 screening agreement. I'm chasing you down screen agreement, you cannot run forever.

However, the title of this blog-post also portrays a sense of satisfaction. A staff member, Jed, gave us a presentation that he titled, "Investing in others." I cried.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAcRKZxjy4

The above link will make you cry. I'm serious, be careful. However, the meaning is deep. Oden, devoted his life to care for those around him and it brought him real happiness. Studies suggest that people who have intrinsic goals (personal growth, building over relationships, a sense of community) over extrinsic goals (money, image, status) are "happier." Obviously everyone has their own definition of the word happiness. I guess what I'm trying to say is Thank You. My intrinsic goals are being reached and as a result enable me to be happy because of those that I surround myself with (YOU!).

Soul food Sunday

We are family

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Team Pacific Northwest!

Sunset in San Diego!

El cajón

Beautiful

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Lunch

Typical

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I drove the 15p!

No accidents, I rock.

I learned Salesforce today. I'm now an expert. I dare you to quiz me. I'm hoping we start booking tomorrow. Looking forward to unleashing my enthusiasm all over Tacoma, Spokane, Seattle, and Olympia - WASHINGTON. If you know of any high-schools, middle-schools, Universities, Places of worship, etc. in these areas that would like to book a screening, please let me know :)

Oh I also ate In-N-Out Burger for Dinner. Double-Double Animal Style. Yes I know you are all jealous.

-Enrique

P.S. I'm super busy, so I have no choice but to write in fragments. At least I'm trying to give you entertainment by deciphering my messages.

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The Trailer

Check it out:

http://vimeo.com/16042648

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The office

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1/11/11

I live with 63 people. Seriously. The energy in the house is contagious. I've never found it so easy to wake up at 6:45 AM and work non-stop until 9 PM. I played the role of a sponge today, soaking up as much information as possible. Here are the highlights:

"Today you have arrived at base-camp, and the next 5 months will be your climb to the summit of Everest." I've never felt so uninformed. There is so much history surrounding the conflict that has taken place in Northern Uganda, and I need to become an expert of the material. This year marks the 25th year of the war between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the innocent victims of Northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic.

The tour that leaves on February 16th will be the twelfth and biggest tour to date. Here are some numbers:

17 teams, 17 regions, 68 total roadies

Roadies will screen the new film Tony 1600-1700 times. P.S. I screened the film tonight. Extremely powerful. Please let me know if you are interested in attending a screening, I will let you know when and where a roadie tour will be in your area. The DVD's will also be for sale.

IC projects fundraising totals of $1.6 Million dollars to fund the expansion into the DRC

IC also projects 25,000 participants in THE EVENT which will take place on April 25th

The tour will reach 400,000 people, roughly the population of Arlington, Texas all at the same time

Lastly, I want share how unique this positions is. Organizations utilize interns to support the staff, here at IC; the staff supports the roadies (interns). Supporters, donors, advocates of IC are the life-line of all the projects in Uganda and without the Roadies there would be no connection to that life-line.

Extremely excited. Thank you again for making this possible. Pictures to come.

-Eric the humbled

1st day

San Diego, here I am. Big house, lots of people. Information will come tomorrow

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Joseph Kony's "possessions"

‘All People Are the Same to God’: An Insider’s Portrait of Joseph Kony

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/an-insiders-portrait-of-joseph-kony/