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Name: Christella
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 8/15/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: being with friends and family, dancing, art, listening to music, sleepovers, being, exploring and learning, growing, God, spirituality, color, flying if but for moments, flipping, swinging, kids, being warm when it's cold, nature, people's hearts, dripping water off rocks, eyes, tears, elephants, tree frogs, white tigers, giraffes, dolphins, sea nettles, hands, collecting postcards and artsy items from around the world, praying, pillows, peace, love, joy, life.
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Member Since:
11/21/2003
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| Hey ALL!
So some friends of mine and I just made a 3-minute film in 24 hours for Apple's "Insomnia Film Fest". And we need YOUR VOTE to win 5 Mac laptops! PLEASE! Here's a step by step process on how to watch and rate it:
1. Go here: http://edcommunity.apple.com/insomnia_fall07/item.php?itemID=1378 (you can see the movie there)
2.
On the upper right side where it says "Rate This Project", click on the
arrow by "Choose a Rating" and slide down to "Excellent". Click on the
gray arrow next to it.
3. It'll bring you to the student gallery
log-in page. You probably don't have an account already, so click on
"create an account now" in blue on the bottom.
4. If it brings you
to a page where you put your apple ID info in, click on "click here" to
create one. Or it'll bring you straight to a page to create an Apple
ID, in which case you put in your info (name, address, e-mail, make
sure you click on the box at the bottom to not get promotional
information). Click submit at the bottom.
5. It'll bring you to
another page to let you rate projects. Click circles by all but "i am
a parent of someone younger than 18" and "I don't want to sign up at
this time". Put in your name for "captain". Fill out boxes with *
(just school, state, and e-mail, I think). Click submit.
It'll
bring you back to the page with the movie. Repeat step 2 to rate it
excellent and click the gray arrow. It'll say that you rated it 4
stars and your rating was recorded.
Whew. Yeah, I don't know why they needed to make it so difficult to vote, but I reeeally appreciate your time and vote. Hope you enjoy. We also made a music video this weekend; I'll post it when I know how to.
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| I'm going to be in LA from tomorrow (Wednesday) night to early Monday morning, doing a WAIT team startup training Sat and Sun (and I think some dinner/get-together Fri night). Looking forward to doing that and seeing my pals down there!!
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| just popping in here to say that I will be back in Cali (woohoo!) tomorrow til the 23rdish. I'm so looking forward to seeing my family and friends. yup yup. so see you soon! =)
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| Friends and family,
Christella here. Update time.
So we've been recently quite busy with performances. Last
Thursday and Friday we performed five times at Parkdale High School, on
Saturday we went fundraising (I got my second $50 donation, yay!) and
then performed in a Walmart near Baltimore, and yesterday we performed
at a "Why Women Cry" conference in Baltimore for disenfranchised
women. 8 neighborhood kids (5 from Parkdale; 3 from New Hope)
joined us, which was awesome, so 2 of the days before we practiced with
them for the perfs.
Joletta chilled at our house Sunday and we went shopping with Juliette,
Mie, and Sun Jae, and Jo played/sung me songs later that night.
Juliette dyed my hair last night (and it's been cut super short); it's light brown.
I started organizing our upstate NY tour for April 22-28 last week so
on Wednesday we had a phone conference and I've been doing some emails
to keep in communication with the various location contacts. It's
gonna be good, moving, inspiring, and rocking. Definitely filled
with people and places who want us to come.
Went to You Choose Club meetings at Roosevelt; the AIDS Benefit Concert
has been planned for May 9, with rehearsals 7th and 8th. I
volunteered today to be the head liaison between WAIT and You Choose
for the concert.
Want to go to Israel.
Sat in part of the South Africa meeting this Sunday; anybody got
contacts there that could help set up performance/training sites for
July?
The team in Grenada/Trinidad--Trinidad this week is doing
awesome; their calls and reports of what they are doing are so
inspiring and exciting. Oh my God.
Seeing the AIDS powerpoint again and again this past weekend,
doing the Rose dance for the first times (I really feel this dance and
it is moving to see the audience moved by it), starting to MC a bit,
doing a verse of the rap, seeing the neighborhood kids put so much
heart and courage into presenting, performing, and fundraising, and the
incredible active responses to every performance and outreach that we
did hit me deeply this past week. Like there is so much glowing
inside (haha maybe the "star of Christ"--"Christella"...yeah, anyway)
waiting to explode out and hit hearts and soak into people and flood
the world up. I mean I've felt it off and on and been feeling it
for a while, but I guess the more you do things and see things and know
things and feel things, the more you passionately feel the desire for
others to understand all that, too, to the same pit-of-your-soul extent
that you are, or more; and the more experience you have seeing others
see and feel it, the more empowered you are to live bigger.
That's what it feels like many a time. So I calm down the energy
inside--like do yoga, like this morning with the chaps and Juliette
here, to release it for the next dance.
Do you understand
Clasped in your heart, in your soul, in your hand
Is a choice
Is a voice
That rings clearly into the night
That yearns to take flight
That I would give anything for
But to hear It laugh
Shake a groove
Squeeze your hand and
Raise you up into the galactic heights
So you could feel your power and
Continue to raise your voice
Ringing clear
Into the night....
Good night,
Christella
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| I've been having some pretty deep experiences the past few days.
We had two performances on Friday. The first was at Brown Middle
School in north DC to the 7th and 8th graders. That area is
really hard hit with HIV; we were told that every child in the audience
has a family members or knows someone with HIV. Anyways, we just
put our hearts into the hour performance and the kids were really
inspiring--cheering, whooping, wanting to answer questions, and in the
last act where "we get to see your talent" and invite the kids up to
freestyle dance, a whole bunch came up and were taking turns just
dancing and flipping. Afterwards tons of the kids were coming up to sign the
sheet to be part of WAIT, grabbing info pamphlets, asking how they could get our
shirts, and they were giving high fives to us and beep boxing with the
guys and some of the kids donated money for Grenada. And the
teachers loved us. Yeah, inspiring. Then that night we
performed at a church; it was a smaller audience but we still focused
on giving just as much energy and love. After, each audience
member came forward and said a thank you. Then we had pizza
=).
Saturday morning we performed the skit and a song ("Hero") for the
prayer breakfast in ghetto Baltimore. The audience members, we
were told, work directly with people battling substance abuse, HIV,
etc. so it was humbling. And then we had a firey evangelistic
sermon filled with head swinging, arm swiping, hand pumping, pacing and
recovering.
Today, after an emergency in the Tsubata home filled with
Aunt Kate screaming for everyone to wake up and run downstairs because
the water heater was leaking and flooding the basement (it's ok; we
stopped it after filling trash cans and buckets with water and carrying
things out to be dried on the porch), church service was quite good
today, too.
I guess what I've been feeling/knowing is a constant clarity that I
need to create big, to dance, to dramatically help others, to pour my
heart out for this world. To go INTO the house of God and do what
I was created to do. Like I have no other choice. Haha I
had tears and snot dripping away at the prayer breakfast at this almost
overwhelming acceptance. I've started having some good talks with
other people in the house, too, and I hope to have more, because if you
(and I) are always in go, go, go mode, you will easily burn out and
also miss the point of loving and getting to know the people sleeping
in your own room.
Anyways.
It's snowing again. And I love and miss you all.
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