¨I carried a Watermelon¨

¨I carried a Watermelon?¨

This of course is a quote from one of my favorite movies of all time, especially that came out in 1987, if you don´t count Red Dawn, which I talked about this week with the group from Tennessee. It´s not that hard to guess if you´re my facebook friend because I wrote a far too detailed note about this movie on there at one point. I still can´t believe that I´m not ashamed that my buddy Zack and I watched this movie almost everyday after school junior year of highschool.

Alright so now that everyone is done googling the movie quote, we can get into the thick of things...

This was by far my best week yet. The group as aforementioned from the Columbia Tennessee, First Presbyterian Church were just the transition from the previous weeks of work and solitude that I needed. I helped them put in the water filtration system and had alot of good conversation, observation, and fun along the way. I was really impressed withthe positivity they generated. I don´t think I heard anyone say ¨no¨ all week and it was very contageous. THere were a lot of obstacles too, including much of the bracing for the roof in the way, an unfinished floor, and problems with the water pump for their private quarters* which left them without the ability to take showers most of the week. They never seemed to let it bother them. I was also inspired by the fact that I don´t think I heard them speak ill of anyone all week. There are always instances where in conversation a person you mutually know will come up (not me, but them in this instance) and especially in relation to an unfortunate situation the tendency is to point out some flaws that they might have. This group didn´t do that. This was also a group that passed along to me, ¨my mama always told me that if you hear something nice about someone make sure and let em know.¨ In leaving a world where most things I heard about people were the negative ones, and myself being a person that sometimes is at the short end of that stick, I really liked that quip...well that and ¨that´s like socks on a chicken¨ in relation to things being the stuff**. I also appreciated that these folks weren´t your hard core bible thumpin, rigid, no dancin, cards, or pg movies people either (dare I say, uppity christians). Before I left, one of the ministers at the CP church and I were talking about the people who live loudly as christians through simple action and not boisterous words and the number of bible verses they know and this group for me was a great example of good people giving a good name to other christians out there. I was definitely sad to see them go.

Updates:

I went and got a pizza last Saturdya. I ate the entire thing! I have a picture of the empty platter that I will upload soon. I have had alot of pizza, and while ingredients, crust, amount of sauce and quality of cheese have been done better in many places I¨m sure, this was the best pizza I have ever had in my life...well atleast that I can remember.

I have come up with a new idea that is sure to make millions. Probably almost as good as kitten mittens, or the c-walking for christ clothing line***. It´s called yearbook.com (domain available) In this you market to schools the function of moving their yearbook/annual to the web. Saving on cost, the schools can sell their own accounts to the kids, and kids can leave comments like ¨see you around, I´ll be the guy in black at courtney´s birthday party.¨**** You can increase content by alot, and kids could add their own pictures, cutting down on kelly kool kid having 15 photos because the editer thought he was dreamy, and kelly keyboard kid can have his rightful place in history. Tons of schools out there, and of course now that facebook has a bunch of olds on it, its obselete. If there is one thing i know about kids or remember from being a kid it´s that they solely want to be where parents aren´t. They say there´s nothing to do, so you build them a skate rink, and no one shows. It´s not because they don´t like skating its because there are parents there. Build a clubhouse where kids can hang out without any adults there and I´ll show you a place where tons of kids go. Anyway back to the point, this is the way of the future, and I am hoping that I know have intellectual property of it. Maybe I can find a whitman kid to write up some cold fusion for me.

I think I´m going to go to the city tomorrow and watch a movie. I´ve been told that the movies are in english with spanish subtitles so it should be a go. THey have the new movies too, since there are no internet listings I´ll probably see that dumb vampire movie, or toy story 8 or something, but it will still be awesome. Then on monday or tuesday I think i am going to antigua to look at the language schools there, so hopefully within a week or two I´ll be doing that.

*this use of words seems extremely old-timey, but for the life of me I can´t think of any other way to accurately describe this noun.

**Also reference the cat´s pajamas or the bees knees.

***This is a clothing line my buddy Pat and I came up with, where former gang members who are now born again, and of course kids who want to be cool, will want to wear these clothes to stay street and represent Jesus at the same time. It´s of course afusion on the popular southern california dance popularized by the crips ¨c'walking¨ and the footprints picture frames on many walls around the world where sometimes there´s two set of footprints, and sometimes one when god carries you. With the popularity of Promise Keepers I can´t see why this isn´t already a worldwide phenomenon.

****This is an actual comment left in Michelle Gwinns 7th Grade Pioneer Middle School annual by Allen Stanley, and possibly the awesomest annual comment EVER!