Nostalgic for nostalgia

I was trying to think today what sort of overall impression I had from August, as for every other month of the year I have some sort of scents or activities or emotions that are immediately recalled when I think of that month. Not so for August. I like the name of the month, but other than that, and the revelation that when I was younger as soon as August rolled around I always realized the summer was half over, there's nothing. It's sort of strange. The only thing I could think of was either throwing wood in the basement, which usually happened in August, and going to Kingdom Bound, which is how I spent part of three August long weekends ('03-'05).
Anyway, memories of this August will seemingly be well infused with Leadership, Learning, and Social Justice, a summer class I'm enrolled in, that takes up at least 2 hours of each of my weekdays. It's pretty interesting, and we have some wonderful guest speakers with a wealth of experience, not to mention that of the classmates I have. A video we watched this week mentioned The Hunger Site, where you can click a button to feed a child for the day, and you can do it daily!! I guess they have a bunch of sponsors that agreed to donate for each person that clicks each day... There're also links to a few other causes that have the same situation (e.g. click to help child literacy). And at The Hunger Site they have a store where you can buy fair trade goods, anything ranging from jewellery to clothing to hammocks.

I'm not huge on jewellery (go figure), but I actually quite like some of their stuff ...