We had an Ethiopian/Italian dinner two weeks ago at our house and invited a few families from the area over. We played Apples to Apples, ate way too much, and danced like crazy.
This was our first Community Impact day. I got to put up drywall at a Habitat for Humanity house. It was awesome!
The past week was stuffed with rehearsals for our show next Saturday. I will most likely be in an awesome Salsa dance called Oye el Boom, but who knows 'cause they change the lists all the time. Just to give you an idea of the craziness, here's a typical day from the last week (including today, SATURDAY): I wake up at 6:30, ride the bus to Denver from 7:27 until 7:56, walk a mile to the Sherman Center, have morning meeting from 8:30-9, have dance or vocal workshops from 9-12, lunch, 1-5:10 run the entire show. CRAZINESS! It's all good though, because I have two vocal/guitar solos! One is called Shine the Light and the other is I Can Believe. I have to admit that before coming to UP with People I was a bit worried about the music. From the recordings they had online, most everything sounded cheesy, and I wasn't sure how I was going to deal with singing sappy songs about world peace and happy unicorns and rainbows and fluffity fluff fluff... Somehow, I've actually come to really believe in the songs. There seems to be a fine line between cheesy and genuine. I think that the UP with People songs could easily be cheesy if they weren't sung with real passion and intensity.
The show is super cool, which I am glad for. It'd kinda suck if I had to perform a crap show for the next five months. We keep hearing rumors that the Buel (I think that's the correct spelling...) Theater, the theater our show will be in, is almost sold out for Saturday! It holds 3,000! I can't wait to perform for so many people. It's so cool to me how one person can be on stage touching and inspiring thousands of people all at once. I get to be that person! wooooo!
We got fliers today to hand out to people and my roommate Meraf and I were looking at them saying, "I can't believe we're actually IN it!" I remembered the first time I saw UP with People when I was about eight at the Fox and how exciting and awesome it was. I can hardly fathom that I am now one of those cool people who get to inspire eight year olds... I feel so privileged.
So far, UP with People has far surpassed any expectations I had, which weren't many because I really had little idea of what to expect.
On a completely different note, yesterday, I voted for the very first time!!! I managed to get my absentee ballot sent here and this morning as I slipped the yellow envelope into the mailbox and flipped up the red flag, I felt super grown up and awesome. Yay voting!
I hope to post again tomorrow. We're going bowling with a few other families and I'm going to take lots of pictures.
Cheers!
-Marina
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