After an adventurous week in Nebraska, we arrived today in Kansas City..
I ll always remember North Platte. the people there were so nice! It has been kind of a "transitional" week for me.. Our first week on the road, it was so different from orientation in Denver! Everything went well at the end, my host family was good, Cindy was wonderful to me and I became friends with Amanda.. I loved our CI the first day, we went to a homeless shelter, runned by an organization called "the connection", and took some bags of food that we had collected from the community. That was interesting to see.. Being homeless is a situation I could never imagine myself in..But it could happen to anyone! The director shared some stories that gave me goosebumps.. Apart from that, the show was nice,I did sailing and jetskiing in the lake on Sunday, I gave a speech at the Rotary club meeting, I saw Buffalo Bills ranch and had authentic Nebraska beef (mmm!) and thats about all I did this week. Oh and I forgot the triathlon, there were people all over nebraska swimming and running and cycling. I was a volunteer for that with a bunch of other people and It was actually more fun than I thought..
Saturday was an awful day, 2 members of our team went home, cause they broke a stupid rule.. Everyone was crying.. I couldnt cry, I never cry when Im very sad.. It was the worst day.. I cant believe they are gone, the journey has just started! And it wont be the same without them.. It made me realize, this journey will be over before we know it, and everyone will go home soon.. So I need to do as many things as possible, live as much as possible, talk and discuss and get to know everyone, cause soon I ll hear the steps on the door, and the voice saying "grab your coat" and I ll be like, "I havent even started playing yet!" (from Carolyn Lee's speech).
I got all philosophical and its way passed my bedtime!
I hope Kansas city will be as nice as Nebraska! So far I ve been extremely lucky! I have the nicest host parents!! He is Italian and he cooks sooo good! We had wine, and we danced and he played music and it was just perfect!! The house is Amazing!! I have my own beautiful room, even better than my room in North Platte (even though I couldnt imagine anything better than that!).
And this time I have a roomate I actually like a lot! Jochanen (or smth) from the Netherlands. He is a musician and host dad is crazy about jazz so they sat on the piano and sang some jazz songs and it was just magic! I love jazz, and they said they would take us to some jazz bars.. I cant wait!!!
I have a feeling I will love Kansas City!
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