Globe here I come!!!

By the title of this post it is easy to assume that I am referring to the fact that I am going to be travelling the world for the next 5months...That assumption would be wrong! Though I WILL be traveling the globe for the next 5months, I was actually referring to the news that I have been accepted on to the Advance Team, as previously mentioned, and my city is Globe, Arizona. I will leave on July 30th, and head out to Globe, where I meet up with Louise, the Community Relations Coordinator, and help her set up the city!!! I have training this week and I am super excited. In other news, we had a fantastic Leaders Round Table yesterday (Wednesday 7/18) and I learned a ton about leadership and made some great contacts. They brought in leaders from all over Colorado, and we got the chance to talk one on one with them and hear their stories and get their advice on leadership. It was very cool. We are still working hard on the music and dance of the show and continue to grow more exhausted with each passing day. It's a good exhaustion though. Today is Thursday the 19th, and it was our first community service day. It was absolutely humbling. I feel so blessed to be in a position to help people. We went to the People's Clinic of Boulder, which is an amazing health clinic that deals with every range of medical needs. There we helped with some handy work like staining the deck and the tables, and others worked with files and moving them into storage etc. Some even worked in the garden. My group catalogued books for a program called Reach out and Read, and then we went in to the waiting room and read to the kids there. It was amazing. I was soo touched by how willing these kids were to hear our stories and to listen to us and read with us. I ended up reading to some Bosnian War refugees and I was struck powerfully by what that meant. It meant their Country was no longer safe to live in - they mentioned their father had been shot but lived - and so they fled to a safer place. It made me feel very thankful for the fact that I have never been touched by war directly. Tomorrow we have blocking for the show and more dancing and vocals. YAY! It should be fun. We worked hard to day and it was so rewarding. The workers at the clinic were so grateful for our help, but I was grateful to be able to help them and learn more about what they do there. It was truly a day for thanksgiving.