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arrival

8:21am Monday 7 August 2000

Getting up was certainly a slight challenge after not sleeping particularly long. Super smooth fast drive to John and Maggie's house and John drove me to the airport on his way to work. Thanks, John!!

We talked work stuff; he described his travel-filled job; I described the fun bouncy ball applet I wrote.

At the airport now, and going through the metal detector, I started pulling out all my stuff - camera, Visor, keyboard... and the guy was all impressed with the keyboard. Yay! I love my Visor.

Bought two AAA batteries for $3.69 + tax in case I need them this week.

Flight leaves at 9:00am

9:17am

In the air without incident. Talkative older men behind me. Reading steering committee minutes from their semi-annual meetings.

10:00

They gave out little granola packets instead of peanuts or raisins and I love it!!! I ate three little packets. And just as I was planning to write this entry, the guy across the aisle from me was all, "this is terrible," giving the bag to the stewardess, "do you have anything else?"

Come on, man, this stuff is great!!

11:45

just arrived. flight was smooth but a tad bumpy at the end.. just coming down through the cloud layers.. I read a lot of minutes from Steering Committee's meetings. Took notes and made lots of comments too.. Odd that I don't have a pen or blank paper with me - just my Visor. what an irony. :-)

12:03

My favorite thing about Atlanta airport is the crazy fun underground train! It's speedy and has huge windows to view the walls wizzing by the track. One time I spent many many minutes riding this train system around, just watching, and being most intrigued by the way the trains change direction at the end of the line. I can hardly describe it, but suffice that there are great moving metal thingies and electric connectors and all variety of spooky subway sunderground stuff.

I'm at the last stop now. the end is next.

yellow light moving us to the left over a crossing thing that rotates depending on the direction of train travel.

now at the end with dusy dry tracks and no grease past. so freaky!

Now we're at concourse E again, and this time on the other side of the tunnel system.

Interesting that there's an apparent branch, but it goes straight under a cement block wall. How is that? does the wall move? Is it old stuff? the previous end of the line?

13:29

on the next plane now. there were hints of delay, but apparently all is good and they are trying to get us out on time. I saw Maia!! I also saw Kayle before I knew his name. I knew he was YRUU from his outfit. Sloppy and functional. A great traveler. There was a YRUU age girl on the train at one point, but I dismissed her YRUU-ness because her pants were too clean and perfect.

I don't see Steve F.. I thought he was supposed to be on this flight.

13:36 ?

oh oh oh and I am sitting right next to the prop. John and I talked about how cool it was to sit in these seats with the exact edge on view of the propellor. And that's where I am. In the aisle, but hey.

14:05

have reached 10,000 feet on our way up to 16,000 feet. So cool to see the propellor blades rotate on their attachment axis. (what's that called? oh, "the pitch")

The flight is hardly full; I moved over to two empty seats on the other side of the plane. I don't get the direct on view of the prop, but I get two seats!
And the lovely granola again!

In the inflight magazine I found an envelope for snapfish.com who say they will develop my film for $1.69 and scan the images online. Nice! I'll try them out.

14:13

I am blessed with two AA batteries that I just found in the seat pocket in front of me. I hope I can present them to somebody who needs them.

14:17pm

Hahahahahahaa!!!!! In the other seat pocket I found a note written on the barf bag! It's written with purple marker in 12 or 14 year old girl handwriting:

Hi!!!
Well I hope
you have a
safe flight.
If some one
reads this that
means my flight
made it & its
now your turrn!
Have fun & I
hope you make
it!
      BYE

That is hilarious!! No date on it though. Doh!

14:30pm

the captain just came on the mic, "We're about 70 miles outside of ...." pause "tri-cities, and as you can see there is significant thundercloud activity." (Actually I cannot see anything but white fluffy clouds.) "Expect some pretty good bumps on the way in." Nice.

14:33

bump dip. lose the stomach for a bit.

15:20pm

Late arrival; no more bumps; we had to fly around in a circle until the weather passed. Duncan greeted us at the top of the stairs; Kayle went straight to the bus. Maia and I are waiting for luggage now.

18:02

Bus ride was fun; I met Kayle moreso and Mother Staples and Blue (Stacey).

Unloaded the bus and then registration and dinner. My pic for the mugbook is of me laying in the flowerbed. Dinner was great and great variety!

The adults sat together and we talked and pretty much most of the thoughts that I thought were all brought up.. interesting..

18:05

HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAAA!!! The Steering Committee opened the meeting with a hilarious Beastie Boys medley!!! Old school B-Boys re-worded with an intro to the meeting and Steering Committee members. They reworded "Paul Revere" and "Girls" from Licnesed to Ill.

19:38

Fun energy break song:

"Father Abrahm
had 7 sons,
and 7 sons
had father abraham,
and they didn't laugh
and they didn't cry
all they did was go like this.
with the left,
with the right,
with the left,
with the right,
with the head,
with the butt,
with the gut,
with the tongue...

You had to be there.

19:56

Exploring different techniques for how we can do our anti racist discussions.. there are concerns about logistics and communication.

22:50

Talking with our touch group now in the hall.. just random BS stuff. ..

The first portion of anti-racism was cool - we described what things we identify with. These groups were called Identity Groups.

Micaela and Ginny(sp) came in during this portion (they had been at the airport for quite a while) and got big hugs as they joined the group.

Carissa said she is going skydiving..

22:57

wowo this is thing is amazing zaing zaing yup. i can type alot. it's fun. i'm glad i've met you,,, yeah. you can capture the moment of youth council in a moments time, like lighting speed yo, i am up. i am up in this piece yo... hee hee. have a good night. sleep tight take care love blue.

23:50

I am so tired; it feels so late. I was falling asleep during worship, the basis of which we had each individual decorate or write on a small piece of paper and place it around a chalice in the center of our circle.

Back in the dorms now; Steve F and I have a room together. About to go to sleep!

12:40am Tuesday 8 August 2000

I took a shower and back in our room with the light off so Steve could sleep, I tried to be all quiet but seemed to bang or drop every conceivable object in the room. Steve is hopefully still sleeping.

Good night. permalink