Sahuarita, Homebase of UWP,

So, let´s make another week update.

First: Hostfamily.

They were really great. The family exsisted of a boyfriend/girlfriend (Greg and Melissa), and they both had children from previous marriages, so I had 5 lill’ bro’s and sissies! Really cool! It’s so awesome to play with the kids!
It was just such an awesome family. I felt really welcome, and we did a lot of cool stuff. We went up the mountains one night, and had some good times hanging around and talking.
My roommate was Mitch McVicker, one of the staffmembers. He is such an amazing guy. He’s like this tree: always silent and strong.
Only exception is that he is an awesome dancer, which is not really treelike…

Anyways, I got my first assignment as “Crew Leader” this week. That means that when we go to CI’s, I’m the contact-person with the facility and the “leader” of the group. I make sure everyone is doing what they should do and arrange everything, like lunch and stuff. Also, I handle the press xD
My first CI was at the “Casa de Esperanza” (House of Hope), where volunteers help others from all ages, from little children to elderly people. They take care of everyone.
What we did there was helping out the “growth of the children”. We painted one of their water features, so they can play with it again. The old paint got off, and it was neither pretty, nor safe, nor colorfull.
The other thing we did there was building a gardenbox. With that box, the children could watch babyplants go to adulthood, without the plants being eaten by squirrels.

On the second day, I was not the crew leader, but we went to the same site. This time, we were supposed to clean all the windows of the complex. Was a tough job, but we managed to get it done fairly early, so we had some time to take a nap during naptime xD

Oh, one bad thing: I lost my camera-recharger… I don’t know what to do with it now…
Should I ask my hostfamilies to send it, or should I buy a new camera (I can’t buy a European recharger here…)

Oh well, showday was a bit bad for me… I was not in the Love Medley! Waaah! It’s because a few guys’ parents came over, and one of them took my spot. I felt really bad, since that was my favourite part of the whole show…
Oh well…

The good thing about showday was: IT WAS INSIDE! Oh my, I can’t believe it! It was so much better, than performing in a constant, dusty environment. Everything was so good xD

Other than that, we got a speech this week from the founder of UWP: mr. Blenton. It was such a touching speech… How he met world leaders, Martin Luther King (who he had dinner with the night after he made his “I have a dream…” speech.), Popes, Mahad Magandhy’s grandson, people who set foot on the moon, and who not!
It was just so cool!
I gave him my business-card. Hope he’ll someday mail me.

Someone else I gave my business card that day was a Dutch “prince”: Pieter van Vollenhoven. He’s like, married to the sister of our queen. I also took a picture with him. Hehe, I hope I’ll stay in contact with him ;)

And if that was not enough, on the same day I met both of these famous people, I also met the musical founders of UWP, the people who wrote the first songs of the UWP show, including a few songs we still play in the show! It was so amazing!

They even played a few songs with us on stage! They are such great musicians! The Colwell brothers!

If that was not enough: we also did our first lesson of “Stand for Peach”, which is a program us UWP students give to smaller kids. We go to their classroom, and give a 1,5-2 hour presentation about how they can improve peach in their own communities (school, class, home, family etc.). We have a program for grades 3-5 (9-11 years old, if I’m not confused now) and one for grades 6-8 (12-14 years old).

I really have some good memories from my first SFP-work. I loved the kids!

So, another awesome week!

What’s up next? Hmm… well, my busdate was Rina from Finland, but she was, like sleeping almost the whole ride, or talking with Riikka, so I started watching a movie (Death Note II) with Chihiro! Good times, pit stop on the Mc Donalds, which was good.

Oh well, now I go to sleep…

Love you guys!

Bubbayz!