Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Nikon Fan · Aug 23, 2005

It's been the most exciting day ever!!! Myself and 300 other students from my school all were able to go and help on the Extreme Makeover Home Edition Show today

It was sooooooooooo incredibly amazing!!! We did landscape work, laying sod and picking up rocks and cleanup...we were able to sit for about an hour and watch some filming with Paul, The Aussie guy, and of course TY :heart: :lol:

It was quite awesome! They are fixing up an entire camp. They've built a new house, and two other buildings as well. We got to see all the "famous" folks, and were just so blessed to be a part of all of it. The show is truly incredible and inspiring. The camp is for disabled children and the things they go out of their way to do are remarkable. Children that are paralyzed or have no limbs are now able to use a ropes course, including a hang glider thingy. We actually got to see Paul and Ty go off of it when it was finished

And when we were leaving, a limo pulls up and out comes Lance Bass from Nsync, and he poses for shots with us and even shook my hand (I don't care for boy bands, but hey it was cool none the less). Someone tried to tell him that he didn't have to and he said it was the least he could do for the hard work we did...pretty cool IMO

Came home and I was on the local news so that was cool as well

I can't wait to see the show...its supposed to be on in October...probably late October. I'm not sure how much of our school we be on it (they ran out of blue shirts so we wore our school tshirts, but ABC said they would mail a box of shirts for us) so I don't know what they can show w/o getting in trouble for publicity purposes, but it's all amazing

I'm still overwhlemed at how they can accomplish so much, this is their biggest project yet. The family returns tommorow and as of today the house wasn't quite done...

Okay, sorry to bore you all, but I am on cloud 999999999999

It's quite a feeling to be apart of something like this and to be able to see the show in real life.

Corry · Aug 23, 2005

Cool! Sounds like you had fun!

Karalee · Aug 23, 2005

Ty is dreamy :heart:
Sounds like fun! Did you smuggle a camera in?

Nikon Fan · Aug 23, 2005

Ty is dreamy :lol:

Even from a 10ft distance :lmao:

I wanted to take my camera so bad, but it had been raining a lot and I really wanted to work...so I left it, and I'm glad I did although the pics would have been amazing...but I wouldn't have been able to work out all b/c there wasn't anywhere to set the camera...a lady from the school got a press pass and took a camera in and took tons of shots, so she's burning me a cd...I'll probably have the pics in about a week and I'll try to post them in this thread when I get em

Nikon Fan · Aug 23, 2005

Oh here's a link to a newspaper with stories about it:
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550817003&template=theme&theme=HOME_MAKEOVER

Karalee · Aug 23, 2005

Awesome amanda! At least this way you get to be in the actual pictures :lol:

Aoide · Aug 24, 2005

Amanda, this is so AWESOME! I love this show and after reading at your link, it looks like a really deserving project. I can't wait to see the pictures. Don't forget the rest of us now that you have become a TV star! :lmao:

LittleMan · Aug 24, 2005

I love that show, I watch it almost every time it comes on.
What do you look like? I want to say "I know her!" :lmao:

I think it's awesome that y'all got to help out!
If I had the chance I would definately help them!

-Chris

Andrea K · Aug 24, 2005

thats awesome that you got to participate, ill be sure to watch it when it comes on!!!! :thumbup: good job

ShutteredEye · Aug 24, 2005

WOW! Very cool! I really like this show!!!

Alison · Aug 24, 2005

That's really cool! We love that show and you'll have to let us know when your episode airs!

Nikon Fan · Aug 24, 2005

I'll let you guys know when it's supposed to be on...right now all we know is in October sometime.

Chris, if I told you what I looked like I'd have to kill you :lol:

Maybe I'll let you know a little closer to time...but for now here's the info you get, I've got curly short brown hair and I had a tshirt on that said Southwest Baptist University...and I was quite muddy too...

Nikon Fan · Sep 26, 2005

Just an update...I found out that the show is supposed to air on October 16th. That reminds me I still need to get a cd of pics and post some shots up...anyway...just a few more weeks

LittleMan · Sep 26, 2005

eromallagadnama said:
Chris, if I told you what I looked like I'd have to kill you Maybe I'll let you know a little closer to time...but for now here's the info you get, I've got curly short brown hair and I had a tshirt on that said Southwest Baptist University...and I was quite muddy too...

Well, I made a composit drawing in Photoshop from the information you gave me...

Am I close? :lmao:

Nikon Fan · Oct 16, 2005

Didn't see Chris' pic till just now...but yah that would be me but more with less of an idiot look on my face :lol:

Just an update..the show airs TONIGHT

Not sure at all what they will show...they taped a lot of us, but it's possible we could be edited out all together. Look for a bunch of students in grey,white, and purple tshirts...SBU is the university

Anyway, I'm excited to see how it turned out...should be pretty cool to see the segment we watched being taped for 2 hours...I'm sure it'll be about a 30 sec clip of all of it :lol: