Some Recent Stuff

This week has been fairly interesting, but in a good way.


Valentine's Day. I worked my youth group's fundraiser, which consisted of baby-sitting for couples from our church. I got the best job of all, working with the infants. I love infants. They don't talk back, they cuddle nicely, they are the right size to carry around, they fall asleep at the drop of a hat, their smiles are so adorable with those little gums, I just love them. When they grow up, they are ok. About 2 hours into the 3 hour event, Amy, the brains behind the magic, came into the infant room, and was bemoaning the fact that all the planned activities had been exhausted, the pizza was eaten, and Charlie Brown's Valentine's was almost over. I, in all my naivete, volunteered to help out with the 20 kids aged between 2-8.  First was Simon Says, not too bad, then I decided to tell a story. In retrospect, I should have considered that my 3 younger siblings were among those I was telling the story. My telling was good, but the uninvited audience participation was a little disruptive to my flow. Kids, gotta love them. Shout-outs: Audrey, Amy, Kyle, Jesse, Jose Sr., Gabriella, Emi, and Trent.


Sunday. I went back to my old church to speak about my Liberia trip (which got pushed back to April 9), and see everybody again. I miss them.

Monday. Mom and Dad went to see Call+Response, a "rockumentary" attempting to draw attention to human trafficking and slavery in the world today. Mom is really passionate about this issue, and she surprised me a couple different times thanks to the movie. She purchased the soundtrack, which features some great artists and songs, and was listening to it. I came walking out of my room and heard some fairly uncharacteristic songs blasting out of the speakers. (Check out the playlist at www.callandresponse.com/mp3player) Not what I expect to hear Mom listening to. The other surprising time was at lunch. We were eating, and Mom was grooving to the songs, totally diverse songs. Reggae, rap, rock, folk. Breaking news! Mom is cool. Check out the site, and if possible, watch the movie, it was really good. 


Tuesday, today. I am enduring 4 straight hours of school online, with a great reward. Tommorow I am going paintballing with my youth group, which should be hilarious and great fun. I feel like I missed a few days. I will have an update on the paintballing tommorow evening.