Sunday, March 22, 2009
wise ol people
the past two days, i stayed with a family with three generations of women all living in the same house at the same time. it was outside warshington dc. and it was really cool. the house was kind of out in the sticks and it was really pretty. the first night i got there, i found myself talking to the mom of the girl who which was our friend and the mom's mom, the girl's grandma. i realized how much they had experienced and i was really curious, it was awesome to hear about music throughout the decades and how some stuff never dies. the grandma was awesome and hilarious. she talked of how she doesnt want to eat vegetables anymore, and would rather hace ice cream. she told me of her late husband who was a pilot in WWII, and how he was a really good doctor. she told me that if i ever go to miami, that i should go to the churches and ask about Dr. Thomas Cole i believe. I showed them pictures of Elli, and they thought she was beautiful which is true of course. and the grandma kept saying how nice her dimples were. i loved it. they were really fun. i taught the grandma how to pound it and do the exploding pound and bring it in for the handshake hug. she was hilarious. i gave her a xl tshirt that was one of our giveaway shirts and she rocked it respectively... it was awesome
Saturday, February 28, 2009
hello from a while...

hey.. sorry i havent been up to date on my blog, it has been really hectic and crazy, and a lot of the free time that i do have, i use it to talk to elli, and i just want to say that I have never ever loved anyone like elli before, and i will never ever love anyone else. she is truly a blessing from God. she is an example to me in a lot of reasons. she is always nice, even when it is hard to be, and nice to people that i think are hard to be nice to. she challenges me in ways that i wouldnt challenge myself so she makes me a better person. i think she is the most beautiful girl i have ever seen. I clearly could never look at any other girl the same way. she makes me smile just thinking about her. i miss her greatly. and i owe her so much. she is amazing for letting me go on this journey of mine and willing to wait for me.n i would wait as long as she needed. and i will never stop liking her. i think this is a good test for our relationship, but it couldnt go wrong as long as we keep God the center of it.
all things work together for good for those who love God, and live according to his purpose. romans 8:28
i can do all things through christ who stengthens me.. phil 4:13...
Im in love, im in love, and i dont care who knows it - Buddy the Elf
I love Elli Brown and i miss her alot. I miss my family a lot, i miss bella a lot. it is hard being away. i miss Ben a lot and the whole nease fam. and i miss papa nuge a lot as well.
keep me in your prayers.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
You live and you learn
Today was a long day. This past week has basically been mostly just booking for the tour. That means a lot of calls, and a lot of emails. To whom? churches, colleges, high schools...middle school.. we will go anywhere where a couple people will listen. we just want to spread the word. I found out that the even this year is going to be called THE RESCUE. We are not too sure what it is going to entail yet, but whatver it does entail, it should be radical and have a huge effect for the whole advocating the government. I am really excited to get on the road finally, especially ince we did our first screening today at a local charter school just to get into the swing of things with a past roadie there to give us support and constructive criticism. today I learned a lot more about how great my girlfriend is. she is always there for me even if I am not in a good mood or have a major headache. she is simply amazing. i saw some of the sweetest shoes ever in a picture text message from ben, they are these sweet chuck taylors. tonight i went to in and out wit a guy from the windy city, and i take for granted how good in and out is i guess cuz it is alwasy there. but it is pretty good like every time. with the same guy, he was trying to teach me some gymnastics. and shannon, basically my team mom (thats how i see her), she didnt want me to break my neck. and its just reminded me of my mom. moms just always worry nd thats part of their job so they gotta. haha. but this week so be kinda slame= O i jus wanna get on the road. but its been good.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
9 to 6 jobs are no joke. But I am all for the work we are putting in. We are all in charge for a portion of the tour, so it good, like you have to self manage your time good at the office.
But, its good. I miss everyone a lot. Even though I am close. It is super hard just to keep in touch with everyone i want to be.
Monday, January 19, 2009
o Canada
yess. finally made it past the first week.
it was good. gooooood.
well one problem about the Roadie house is that there is not tv to watch sports... like i missed the lakers kill the cavs tonight... yesterday(Sunday) was super good... i started out the morning with going to a park wit rory, and we did a lil bible study on our own, it was super good and i am glad to have someone here who will challenge my faith. then we went to a chilis n got lunch and to watch a football game, it was prolly the longest ive ever stayed at a chilis. but the cards are redic.
then came home saw grandma tree n stacey which was really nice cuz i prolly wont see them for a while from now. I went to dinner and church wit Elli, but before we took pictures at one of the craziest sunsets ive ever seen.
today(Monday) we go to work and finally do work. it was good cuz now we gettin down to the nitty gritty. we are now booking some screening for our trip. and our team got assigned certain areas to get ready, i got most of the virginia part of our tour.
my team is super cool, i got big daddy Jonathon. he is from canada and hes huge.. like 6'9"...
i got Kelly from the AZ (AZ connects)
and SC... Shannon from the Cinncy Ohio. we are gonna hold down the midatlantic fort. we took sum stellar pics today with the Invis Chil bands... freshh. it was a good day!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
tAKING iT aLL iN tHUS fAR
So far.. got past the first week. It was long, filled with so much information. I am glad I got this week over with. I had so much fun, but I was bored a lot. Like even though the info we got was fairly interesting, but there is only so much sitting I can do in a day without feeling like a caged animal... like a caged jaguar..(for ben), we got out early to do a picture scavenger hunt but me and my friend Rory bailed out to watch basketball. haha. Rory is good, he is probably the person I most relate to here. hes a westmont boy, hes graduated.. and he is a solid christian guy, like he makes me feel bad cuz, like i been like busy and been having a hard time to gett in the Word. yet hes been gettin up early to do sum mornin devos. i respect that a lot... today was fun, i played basketball wit sum peeps and there was this old guy that we played with. he reeked of mary jane..haha and he needed a half time break in a game to 7. haha. it was classic tho. then i had some good team bonding with a dinner at my house then showed them sum nice views around san daygo. it was good. im excited for next week. itll be great.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Hump Day
Today was the second in the office....
one word to describe these days is just LONG.
another word is jammpacked. jampacked with new stuff, old stuff, confusing stuff, easy stuff, you name it. The filmmakers have really shocked me with their humility, for some reason i thought they were going to be like: OH we made this were better than yall... but honestly nothing like that at all. To them, it seems like they are just like everyone else, and everyone here, new roadie or not, is like a friend, good enough friend to joke around with. They are not afraid to put others in front of themselves, and i respect that alot.
But we got in the office, the office atmosphere is super chill. Thats the word chill: not in like the term for lazy: but like everyone is friendly, but they work super hard it seems like, like they are working for the kids in Africa. but also its like if your gonna do something do it hard. Col 3:23.
The people here just get more and more amazing the more you get to know them.
I got to see the prettiest girl ever tonight, that made my day even better than it already was. Sometimes i feel guilty cuz i know i am gonna see my fam and friends atleast for little short spans of time, when some people came from New Zealand, and England, and such.
But one big thing, its pretty weird but I was talking to my friend Geoff, and we just both kinda realized that we saw the original Invisible Children movie so long ago, that we kinda forgot that there is a terrible war over there, and the work that Invisible Children is doing is super urgent... like for sure we know that we want to help people and will do anything to help, but like its like people are dying... dying, sometimes death is such a hard concept to actually think about.
Sometimes we forget how blessed we are just to live without worry of people coming to attack our towns, like we don't realize how good we have it just to go to bed without major worry of dying.. we might worry about little things.. but compared to dying, they are nothing.
but i miss everyone, and bella(carol)
Monday, January 12, 2009
1st time for everything.
Arrived today at the roadie house. It was kind of awkard getting to a big house. and the door being open, and not know whether to go in or what... but I did with my beautiful girlfriend. So it was all good. Everyone is super friendly and warm. It is nice just to be around people that all have super genuine hearts and just really open for whatever.
We hung out at the house while other roadies were arriving, it was good, worked on the random people conversation skills. haha. But yes it was still fun. We went over some ground rules for the house and next couple of months...
Then we went off to La Jolla, it was hard to find cheap food there. Es no bueno. we found some but it tasted kinda cheap which is never good with food. then we went to auditorium where 2 of the 3 filmmakers from Invisible Children were, they explained some stuff, we got a talk from a girl from Uganda, it was reallly cool. she seemed really happy to be here inn the US going to school because of a scholarship. We watched a film with some good parallels to us and we went home.
went grocery shopping for myself. not good. end of story. ha.
but its been a good day, and im sure this is where God wants me.
its weird that this day finally came after so much anticipation. its only been 1 day, but i can already tell that im going to miss people. just knowing that you wont see people makes you miss them even tho is hasnt be that long.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Starting Blog
Well, this is the first blog at the start of this journey. I have about a week from today until I arrive at IC headquarters. I am stoked/excited and super anxious at the same time. I can't wait to start but I do not want Christmas break to end.
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