Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday - went down to DC to watch little lights kids rehearse for their end of the year talent show. Hadn't been back since 1st semester, so it was awesome to see a bunch of familiar faces. I wasn't expecting any of the kids to remember who I was, but I was pleasantly surprised when 2 little girls recognized me and came up to say they had forgotten my name. Samara - the cutest little buck-toofed, cross-eyed, math genius in all of SE DC and Bryanna - miss independent with an overflow of sass and tude. Went back down to DC at noon today to help out with the pre-talent show bbq. It's funny how travel plans to DC worked out. I was originally planning to leave much later in the day because of an 11am football game...but I just so happened to get ridiculously lost on my way to the field, pulled over onto some residential street, screamed at my gps for bringing me to the wrong location, and drove back home all defeated and stressed out. However, due to this navigation fail, I got to metro down with Eden (who I haven't hung out with in quite some time) and Carolyn (who I've never really hung out with before, but uh she's a flipping awesome chica).
Spent the first 20 minutes at Potomac Gardens helping to clean up, pick up trash and chatting with a few other volunteers. Eventually, I found my way over to the face painting table where a little girl named Shandra immediately requested to paint my left arm. She had a stunning palette of magenta, turquoise, and white Crayola facepaints laid out already, so I conceded and told her she could paint whatever she wanted to. After that, it's all really just a blur... Somehow she found a way to convince me that arm-painting was restraining the flow of her creative juices and that my face made for a much better canvas. A few adults started getting concerned/started questioning my sanity as another little girl named April (with a rainbow painted on her left cheek and a star on her right) was commissioned to paint my right arm. Anyhow, their end result was a walking masterpiece made of upside down letters, spongebob squarepants, a tennis racquet, a bunch of grapes, and a caterpillar (walking across my face).
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