Happy Easter!

Hey friends! Happy Easter/Passover :) I was talking to Emily Hetu about which holiday was my favorite and I thought about it. Christmas is of course an amazing time of year, and also an amazing day because it's the birth of our Lord. But, it's really unfortunate what Christmas has turned into. Partially because of the greed and self-centeredness some people show while so much of the world is suffering, but also because of the fact that the non-Christian world has taken a Christian holiday and tried to make it have nothing to do with Christ. It does. No one takes Jewish holidays and tries to make them unJewish, why Christian ones? Get over it, it started because that's the day Christians celebrated the birth of their Lord. If you want an atheist holiday make one, but don't take a Christian one and try to make it unChristian. That might sound stupid, but I think when I said it the first time it was pretty impactful, at least to me. I felt like I learned something. So anyway, my answer was Easter, not only because I love Easter plays and spring and bright colored dresses, but because no one can deny that Easter is about Jesus. Yea we have bunnies and egg hunts and stuff but still, it isn't about spending billions on unnecessary stuff for each other. Also, Easter is celebrating Jesus' resurrection, which is what makes Him, and Christianity, different than all other gods and religions. :)

So Easter! We were SO blessed to spend Easter Sunday with Tiffany and Ben Keesey at Tiffany's family house in Irvine. Tiffany's mom is the cutest and we got to meet a lot of her family. Dinner was awesome and we got to relax and hang out with the Keeseys as friends rather than coworkers. Then we FINALLY cleaned Baxter and had team dinner. Then the boys got weird while I was driving, as usual. Great Easter.

I want to tell you a terrible story about a snake that Emily told me! So Emily's friend had a big snake, either a python or a constrictor or something. Whatever it was, it was a really big snake. But it was a friendly snake so at night she would let it sleep curled up at her feet like a dog. I know, not normal, but she did it. At one point the snake stopped eating the mice and rats she would try to feed it. It didn't eat for about a week so she took it to the vet to see what was wrong. The vet ran a couple tests and couldn't find anything wrong so he asked if the snake was doing anything else funny. She mentioned that he was. In fact, she noticed that at night he stopped sleeping curled up next to her but slept alongside next to her, cuddled like a person. The doctor told her she needed to put the snake back in its cage and never take it out again. She asked why and he told her that the snake had been starving itself and stretching out next to her to measure her because it was preparing to eat her. ?!?!?!?!?!?!? So crazy right?! I'm SO mad at that snake, the nerve!! Ugh. I'm leaving you with that :) Happy Easter, don't sleep with snakes, and come to The Rescue on April 25th in a town near you. 

Summer?

Last night I thought of all this stuff I wanted to blog about and now I've forgotten most of it. BUT Im still writing so maybe I'll remember. It's April 11th, 2 in the morning. We're at Rebecca Willis house. She was a Middle America roadie with LoBaz, Eugenius, and someone I dont know. She seems really cool and Im so glad to crash her floor, even though their snake got out earlier this week and is somewhere in the house. I will probably wake up with a snake entangled in my hair. Also, she has a Swedish cyclist named Andre (who just warned me that he snores bad) couch surfing here tonight so we're all packed in :)

This week was UCLA, another glorious Paul Mitchell (no sarcasm, I love those future professionals!!), Pepperdine, Biola, and I can't remember where else. I can't lie, I am NOT a fan of UCLA. Janet Ikpa killed it, and her IC team did fabulous, it was just the disengaged air of a lot of the students there that turned me off. I've never been rejected harder than while handing out fliers at UCLA. But Cord and Janet were stars, and the spoken word poetry that night was so cool; I've never experienced that before. 

I didn't get to go to Pepperdine, because I was at UCLA, but Biola brought with it some phenomenals. Hannah, Andre, Ben, Ben (Darrel), (Real) Darrel, and of course the IC crew that came- Lisa, Rachel B, Kyle, and Jared, who spoke. It was fun to watch someone else do the talking at a screening and it was refreshing to be reminded that this isn't a routine but an urgent cry for justice. The Biola crew bought us breakfast burritos and we tagged EVERYTHING with Rescue stickers. Biola is going to do big things for The Rescue, just watch.

Tonight we were supposed to have a screening with Toms Shoes but it fell through so instead we got Sprinkles cupcakes and went to the Santa Monica pier. We played on the fitness beach and went to the little carnival. I'm no good at rigged carnie games, but i really wanted to go fishing! That's on the list to do with the next person that wants to take me. Just a warning, I can't take my own fish off my line. Tomorrow is the OC street team meeting and then Sunday is Easter!!! I can't wait, we're spending the morning with the Keesey's and the evening team/family bonding.

Soo the name of this post is summer, and this is why: I may be returning to IC this summer. I'm not sure if I'm going to, and then further I have to decide if I want to be a roadie (SUMMER CAMPS!!!!!) or an intern (permanent address, normal-ish life, not gaining 5 more pounds). Any and all comments on this are welcomed. I'm still internally thinking through this. Lots of decisions to make! I think I may have found an apartment in Chicago right next to a park and a Dunkin Donuts lol. 

2 weeks til The Rescue!!!!!!!! Goodnight, and a very Happy Easter :)

Welcome, April

People keep telling me they read my blog. And here I thought nobody read it! You little cuties :) Last night Ashley and I went for a late night drive around downtown LA. We drove up and down Rodeo Drive, and saw probably the most expensive homes and shops we'll ever lay eyes on. Then we bonded over our top 3's, and ended the night watching American Idol with Fetus. We still can't get over how much of a doll Scott is. Today SoCal was at the infamous USC, home of the Trojans. I expected to hate that school because of deep seated football rivalry (Go Gators), but I really liked it! Part of me wondered why I didn't go there, seeing as how my school was almost as expensive... I'm actually regretting it a little. Anyway. We spent most of the day passing out fliers around campus and in res halls inviting ppl to the movie that night. Then I had lunch with Jon Meadows, Ben Friday, and Adam Clarke!! SO nice to see sweet, familiar faces, even if it was just for a minute. The screening turned out to be a songwriting competition! It was 6 finalists who had written songs inspired by the conflict in East Africa that had won a competition out of a bunch of songs. It was so cool to hear how IC and this global issue had inspired these artists to write such heartfelt things and perform with such passion. We (the roadies) got to judge the competition which of course was tough because they were all so personal and intimate. The guy who won is named Ryan and sang his song called Will Power. It was this gospel choir style song that I can't describe with words other than his. Hopefully, his song will be featured on the filmmakers blog for winning the contest. After the competition, we showed The Rescue to an amazing group of students that Cameron (not Cruz; USC Cameron, the other phenomenal Cameron in our lives) brought together. The screening went really well; we played with some of the club after, got the BEST milkshakes at Millions of Milkshakes, and met plenty of people with serious roadie potential. Serious guys! I can't wait to see what USC does for LA's Rescue, as if it wasn't already going to be the sickest one. Well, second sickest after San Diego, that is. And now it's 3:30 am and that means the time for bed has come and gone. Thanks for reading Glenn and John Kelly! I might crash weddings with Glenn this summer. We'll see. I realized tonight that crashing a wedding is on my to-do list sometime in my life. There are hundreds of weddings waiting to be crashed so let me know if you need a partner to celebrate a stranger's happiest day with them, I'll be down. If you haven't yet- watch The Rescue. If you're reading this and haven't watched it yet, you're a walking contradiction of a friend. But seriously, you're missing out on helping something that you most certainly can be a part of. That's all. Goodnight!