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Nov. 20th, 2005 02:12 pmMy foot is recovering. I can walk on it now without crutches (for the most part). And no more thrombosis injections, huzzah.
CI was...interesting. People (ok, Yosh) kept wanting to shuffle me from one CI to another because they thought thez needed more/less people. ("But my FOOT, Yosh!") Either way I was kind of useless...the Ford people and the other locals pretty much got everything taken care of.
I did get to learn some nifty circus juggling skills - I got the spinning-plates-on-sticks thing really easily! Irina was frustrated thatshe couldn't get it as quickly. It's all about moderation, and holding the stick. But it's fun. I walked up to the workroom with the spining plate asking if anyone wanted spun soup. At least I know a new parlour trick.
On the second CI day, besides taking a gazillion photos, I was having fun making a list of distinctive things people say and do. Some were a lot more obvious than others - I now have about half the group covered. I wonder what other people will come up with.
HARRY POTTER 4 THE MOVIE IS AWESOME THE END.
I actually managed to dance (and act homeless) on Celebration Day. I'm not entirely sure Nina realized that my foot was sprained,but no matter; I did vow to myself (after Los Angeles) never to miss a Celebration. It's too much fun. Especially Huddles! I swear, I'll be doing the Huddle in my sleep.
We did this exercise where groups were given snippets of music and come up with some sort of performance based on a theme. Ours had a song from Ragtime (something about being in America in Yiddish) and our theme was Immigration and Cultural Encounters...after what seemed like ages of talking, the group finally settled on a short pantomime involving chairs and not letting K sit on any of them. We were rather intimidated by the other two groups (we went frist but the other 2 were AWESOME) but Nina and Rob thought the chairs were a strong visual, so hmm.
A bunch of new people have been hired for the next Up with People Program - two Davids (one for communications, one for something else I don't really remember) and a bunch of the Road Staff - Dee Ann for curriculum development; Yoshimi, Anke, and Tom for admissions; Nina for show development; and Bob for a permanent position as manager for program managers (OK, that's not the actual title, but that's kind of the idea of what he's doing). It's great that they all have these new jobs, though that may mean (definitely in the case of Bob) that they won't travel anymore. Sigh.
Good news is that new jobs should be made available by April, so remind me to check the website then.
Host Family Day is more like a Personal Day, really. Woke up late for breakfast so have been snacking on chocolate instead.
Tomorrow - ERFURT! Hopefully with a host family that clicks better. Man, I want to go to a hair salon just for a shampoo.
CI was...interesting. People (ok, Yosh) kept wanting to shuffle me from one CI to another because they thought thez needed more/less people. ("But my FOOT, Yosh!") Either way I was kind of useless...the Ford people and the other locals pretty much got everything taken care of.
I did get to learn some nifty circus juggling skills - I got the spinning-plates-on-sticks thing really easily! Irina was frustrated thatshe couldn't get it as quickly. It's all about moderation, and holding the stick. But it's fun. I walked up to the workroom with the spining plate asking if anyone wanted spun soup. At least I know a new parlour trick.
On the second CI day, besides taking a gazillion photos, I was having fun making a list of distinctive things people say and do. Some were a lot more obvious than others - I now have about half the group covered. I wonder what other people will come up with.
HARRY POTTER 4 THE MOVIE IS AWESOME THE END.
I actually managed to dance (and act homeless) on Celebration Day. I'm not entirely sure Nina realized that my foot was sprained,but no matter; I did vow to myself (after Los Angeles) never to miss a Celebration. It's too much fun. Especially Huddles! I swear, I'll be doing the Huddle in my sleep.
We did this exercise where groups were given snippets of music and come up with some sort of performance based on a theme. Ours had a song from Ragtime (something about being in America in Yiddish) and our theme was Immigration and Cultural Encounters...after what seemed like ages of talking, the group finally settled on a short pantomime involving chairs and not letting K sit on any of them. We were rather intimidated by the other two groups (we went frist but the other 2 were AWESOME) but Nina and Rob thought the chairs were a strong visual, so hmm.
A bunch of new people have been hired for the next Up with People Program - two Davids (one for communications, one for something else I don't really remember) and a bunch of the Road Staff - Dee Ann for curriculum development; Yoshimi, Anke, and Tom for admissions; Nina for show development; and Bob for a permanent position as manager for program managers (OK, that's not the actual title, but that's kind of the idea of what he's doing). It's great that they all have these new jobs, though that may mean (definitely in the case of Bob) that they won't travel anymore. Sigh.
Good news is that new jobs should be made available by April, so remind me to check the website then.
Host Family Day is more like a Personal Day, really. Woke up late for breakfast so have been snacking on chocolate instead.
Tomorrow - ERFURT! Hopefully with a host family that clicks better. Man, I want to go to a hair salon just for a shampoo.
