| | 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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