Oh what a day, it all started off with an educational class with the amazing JC and Aoifa. JC is from California/Mexico and Aoifa(I hope I spelled her name right) is from Ireland. So today's workshop was all about stereotypes. At first I thought it wouldn't be too bad but we had to walk around and write our stereotypes of each country. This turned out to be really bad for the good old USA it seemed to me that every person really let the "hate" fly today when it came to our poster. As much as it was an exercise it was really revealing to me what the rest of the world thinks of America and makes me want to change those stereotypes.
Okay so moving past how everyone views America, we had alot of dancing today. The Gypsy dance is not a thing I would suggest doing after lunch but guess what we had to do it anyway. I really enjoyed this even if it turned out to be very physically challenging. Gypsy dance is just a bunch of partner stuff and if you see the show you will like it a lot. "Power With" on the other hand is a very kind of mellow tempo hip hop song, something about this song really makes me want to sing it all night. "Power with a sister or brother is stronger than power over each other" that snippet of the song is just really great it means so much. If we could all just use our "powers" together rather than trying to make ourselves better than each other this world would be so much better off than it is now. There is my philosophical thing for the year since I know none of my usual readers expected that.
Tomorrow I am in the dance workshop of Oye El Boom which is the spanish salsa dance for the show. I am really excited for this one since I have always wanted to learn how to salsa. I hope I get a good partner because I might suck at it.
Alright I am gonna try to scrape the barrel of my brain and remember what happened last night. We went to a pot luck at the church right next to our building. This was a great time so many people showed up. I think that this should be a UWP tradition in each city we go to, it was just a great opportunity to meet all of the host families that have to deal with all of us. Zola and I were driven home by Bob who is hosting Karoline and Lindsey. If you don't remember Karoline is from Norway, and Lindsey is from the state of Washington. This was a really nice gesture towards Zola and I because we didn't really want to ride the bus last night.
Stuart
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