I Am A Roadie

Hi Friends!
Have these past two weeks flown by for you? I feel like this past week was a dream, especially this weekend. I write this with a feeling as if time is slipping out of my hands and I keep grasping for it but like silly putty it has no form to be held by.


















I guess our weekend really started Thursday. Invisible Children's media relations and legal go-to guy, Jedidiah Jenkins, gave us a riddle to solve that would reveal the location of our picnic dinner and fun time. We got dinner and ended up at Mount Soledad, a prominent landmark where we ate, played, and laughed with the view of all of San Diego. (Pictures on Facebook) Then Jed told us to follow him to the beach for a surprise. When we got there the entire IC staff was waiting preparing a bonfire! After we made s'mores Jason introduced us to his friend Tom Shadyac who talked to us about changing what we know as "the real world." It was a magnificent day and what made it even better was that our boss said we wouldn't need to be in the office until 9 the next morning (as opposed to our usual 7:30am.)

I set my alarm Friday morning for 7:30 and at 7 I woke to shouts at the front door telling me to wake up. The entire movement staff had brought us breakfast. We were, needless to say, a bit confused but excited for the 2 hours of fellowship time we got with each other and the staff. After breakfast we had "marriage counseling" for our teams. It consisted of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and learning our love languages as well as questions given to us by Margie. We got to the office around 3 that day and learned more about conflict resolution and "gender talk." After all this we were allowed to take the vans out for the night so about 10 of us went to Sunset Cliffs. We jumped off the cliff, watched the sun set, and got dinner on Ocean Beach. Another great day.

Saturday 11 of us piled onto the trolley at 8am to ride to the Mexican border and walk across it to a place called The Purple Palace where 100 orphans live with a wonderful couple. We had a ball with the kids and got tacos (3 for a dollar) after. We later went downtown to hang out and walked a good 20 blocks to get fro-yo from Yogurtland. Sunday we have down to a routine of church in the morning and barbacue-ing with the homeless community at Ocean Beach in the afternoon. And now I reflect on the week at Cosmos while listening to the Status livefeed.


It's been a jam-packed weekend but for those who work hard, we play hard. And with only 10 days until launch I am taking every second of play I can get.