I finally got my condoms yesterday and as I walked through campus from the mail center back to work, I had this hugeee smile on my face. I'm a tour guide on campus and all of my fellow pres. hosts wanted to know what was in the box. When I told them it was filled with condoms, very few people actually believed me. It wasn't till I opened the box in front of them that they took my word for it.  

For the past couple weeks, I've been in contact with one of our Residental Life directors and today, right after I was done with classes I brought approximately 250 condoms up to his office. They're going to be distributed across campus in the residence halls. I'll also be a guest at a couple of the floor programs about safe sex, along with Planned Parenthood. Luckily, my school is really welcoming my efforts as a SafeSite!

So far I've made several announcements on facebook for friends to spread the word all across campus about what I'm doing. Basically as soon as those notes were up, I had comments thanking me for putting forth the initiative to start something like this on campus. I was also getting texts from friends who had read the notes asking me to save a couple for them. I honestly never thought that I would get this quick of a response from so many people. 

Needless to say, I've distributed at least 75 condoms in less than 24 hours of receiving my box, not including the 250 I handed over to Residential Life. Thanks so much Trojan and GACC for this wonderful opportunity. For the first time, I'm actually taking a vocal stand for something I strongly believe in! And good luck to the rest of my fellow SafeSites - I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am!!



Michele
Ithaca College