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8:49am Thursday 10 August 2000

Robin and I did freestyle beatbox before the anti-racisim training. We may perform and have Blue and/or Justin do freestyle vocals or dance.

Watched a scene of Star Trek about the Borg and assimilation

Here's an energy break song:

Front to front to front my baby
Back to back to back my baby
side to side to side my baby
this is how we do it

Come along and ride that pony
Come along and ride that pony
Come along and ride that pony
This is how we do it

1/4 of people inside the circle and ride the pony during "come along and ride" then face someone and dance according to front to front back to back side to side part and then switch with the person

11:33am

Blue describing the pain she felt when people called her "flat face" and laughed at her eyes. I can hear the pain in her story; I judge she still has internalized sadness and pain.

Jennifer expressing how she got "flat face" comments, but felt more pain about her glasses; she didn't feel pretty if she wore her glasses. That's exactly the same as me.

Leno is 15 and apparently not familiar with YRUU culture(?) He introed a song by Rage Against The Machine and was essentially warning us that it would be loud and have some bad words in it. So cute!!

13:09

Joey and Jesse are guest speaking representatives from the Young Adult organization, www.uuyan.org.

13:21

Now we are collecting and organizing the brainstorms people had for the next 5 years of YRUU

14:06

Our little group is going to write a resolution for a 5 year plan to deepen the YRUU and UU faith

14:18

Each of the three groups presented ideas; hopefully we will get three big resolutions passed this year.

14:50

We're on the bus to zip off to the Super Secret Super Activity!! I'm beside Matt, who knows what it is, but won't tell me. We've been asked to bring warm clothing, flashlights, sunscreen, money... Some of these items I know are bogus ideas to throw us off...

"They are bogus; it's true," says Matt, "except for the warm clothing."

He's wearing pants and has a long sleeve shirt.

Zach, the bus driver addressed us: "My name is Zach, and this is my bus. I take care of it. All I ask of you is that you keep it clean. So if you have any drinks or anything, please take care not to spill. We're all going to have a great time... if only someone would tell me where we are going."

14:58

We're slaughtering a version of Madonna's "Like a Prayer"

14:59

Just got a trucker to honk for us.

15:02

truck two honked for us!

Here's the lyrics of a game chant thing:

Concentration
fifty-four
no repeats
no hesitations
category
________
Okay
I'll start

And the idea is that each person in the circle has to name something from the category when it's their turn. May not repeat what anyone else has said.

10/8/00 15:39

En route to Super Secret, Jeff just said at the Bristol Speedway we are not allowed to touch the cars.

Matt Just said there will be a concentration of oxygen.

I think we are going to a cave; we are in Tennessee.

15:41

Zach just pointed out Vince Gill's house. I think I took a picture of the right one. Now the youth are slaughtering a Vince Gill song I'm guessing.

15:44

Nathan, unimpressed with seeing Vince Gill's house, sarcastically yelling out the window, "hey horse! I just saw Vince Gill's house!!"

15:45

We have arrived. I was right: "Welcome to appalachian Caverns"

17:09

The cave was pretty fly. Saw a few bats and went down a couple hundred feet. Fun formations but the cave is not super amazing since it was just uncovered in 1988 or so - the entrance had been filled with 162 thousand pounds of trash.

Coolest thing is there's a river at the bottom that is fed by 2 springs and a lake apparently.

The coolest thing about the tour: We sang like monks in a darkened cavern with beautiful melodious angelic echoes. so peaceful and so beautiful. We are great!

here's Blue:

that trip was awesome. it brings me back to the carlsbad caverns that i visted last summer. we got to see the stalagtites and mites when they were just pearls there. i love worship. i got to sing alot. and i love singing. this is my second con. and i really love the community. it's weird to think that things will end soon. and i never knew anyone else to know so mucha bout things that i am passionate about. like the punk rock academy song, s.o.a. , and social action's importance. it makes me feel loved which i don't feel much at home. here. is wonderful, people really care, they see people for their inner beauty,a nd as forme, my own true childishness, innocence, and love for people. i haven't seen so many genuine smiles, in a long time, i would love to live a life with this true wacky happiness for the rest of my life. uuism fills these people with something i have never found in anyother group i have ever met, it is the spirit of love and happiness and freeness that generates through all of us. it is something i have never felt so strongly, only at cons and with these people have i ever felt this way. as for anti racist education, i am glad that i realized so much about racism here, and not any where else. because people care genuinly care here. and i am not afraid to smile, care, be open, and love other people. i feel that this is what will give me emotional strength to help me through school. this con has really let me see how much i can be appreciated and loved, and how i should appreciate myself, and love myself, for all of my good and bad qualities. Thank you every one for giving me this experience, i will never be the same again... gratias, tanks, and thanks...

18:27

Part 2 of the Super Secret activity visting a art sale thing with booths and booths and food and crafts and all kinds of fun stuff. We at sandwiches and cookes and walked around not too far; the booths were pretty much all closing. and it's only 6:30 local time. In Houston the show would have just been getting started!

Now we're driving to maybe a part 3 of SSA, but I don't know for certain; it's a secret!

Zach is driving with the door open to get some air circulation. Cool

19:00

Wow.

The third part of the Super Secret: watching the band perform!

I wanted to watch their parents' night, so happy that we get to see it!

I learned the name of Angie, who I had met in the cafeteria; she's on the staff of this bandcamp.

19:31

I just beat Laura at Concentration 54 in the category "Types of Music" with "Chickenskin"

The band was fly, and performed jazzy versions of "Home on the Range", something else, and something from The Color Purple.

19:45

Maia says:

SO then I was all impressed that at my next rally, which was Austin 96, that Jeremy remembered me. So basically I hung out with him and Katy perkins and Curtis. That's the first time I remember you from. That was a cool rally. We all went to Barton Springs and it was all kinds of boss. After that, I didn't go to another rally until Houston 97 (Bif!) and then I didn't miss another rally for like 2 and a half years. Yeah my rally history.

2:38am Friday 11 august 2000

We've been up writing resolutions and project proposals. I wrote a short project proposal to create some electronic resources (templates) to make it easier to write resolutions and project proposals.

Turns out that I'm not allowed to sponsor the proposal myself, so Ann is the point contact, and I'm her Primary Aid, and I do all the work.

At about midnight, we had worship, which started with consumption (inhalation) of 4 large pizzas. Then we sat in a circle and described ou(*)r first crush or our first kiss. Then Unconditional Love to complete the worship.

Above at the (*) is the moment where my Visor gave me a warning of low batteries. I quickly popped the new ones in, retained all my information, and have full batteries!

So now it's about 2:43am; I'm going to shower and then sleep!

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update

10:17pm (virginia time) Thursday 8 August 2000

HI!

Today was the super secret activity! I'll give you the short version now. There were three parts to it:

1. Visiting Appalachian Caverns, a small recently uncovered cave in Tennessee

2. Visiting a small art fair thing, but mostly all the shops were closing when we got there at 6pm

3. Watching a high school band perform for Parents' Night at the end of their band camp! That was fun. They've been on this same college campus as us (Emory & Henry College in Virginia)

Right now everyone is in the computer lab writing resolutions to be presented to the group tomorrow. Resolutions direct the actions of Youth Council members for the next year. This week we've been doing some 5 year planning, so hopefully our resolutions will take an even grander scope.

I think I come back on Sunday night, and I have written so much in my Handspring Visor.

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