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.

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!

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.

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)

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.

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.