Although I am the whole way across the world, I am still cheering for THON from Sweden! All weekend long, my fellow Penn State friends and I watched the live webcast of THON, and emotionally celebrated the final result together in Sweden. I even kept tweeting about it, saying the Sweden was FTK!
It is truly amazing to me to see how this student body is so capable of being so selfless, spending an entire weekend to make the lives of children better by giving them hope. We shared the information of THON with many of the international and Swedish students here in Jonkoping, and the response we got almost every single time was: unbelievable.
The Swedish students and I discussed how incredible this weekend is – how the entire weekend is organized and carried out by students, and how the children look forward to this more than Christmas morning! They Swedes claimed that nothing like this would ever happen in Sweden, and the ones coming back to PSU are already anxious to be involved. They had a hard time grasping the idea of THON, but after countless youtube videos and stories, they finally realized how epic and meaningful this weekend truly is.
$9,563,016.09. It truly is unbelievable. We surpassed all expectations for this year, and as my mom said to me after the total was revealed: you know what this means… 10 mil next year. FTK <3
I’ve never been so proud to be a Penn Stater, and I’ve never missed PSU so much in my whole abroad experience.
Location: jonkoping, Sweden
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