Sunday, 31 May 2009

  • Two More Weeks

    We got wifi at camp, though, so maybe I'll keep up with this a little more.  Maybe not.  I'm not yet prepared for camp; I haven't gone through the curriculum or started looking for projects/skits/whatever.  But, I am ready to be back there, move on to another "family" for two months.  It's not that I don't want to be with my own--on the contrary, I feel bad that I am away so often.  This is my last summer "at home"...maybe ever.  I am looking forward to camp, though.

    Today, I did the Pentecost kite at church.  We have a long kite pole with a dove kite and streamers, and I get to make the dove "fly" during the organ prelude.  Pentecost is my favorite Sunday for church decorations--all the orange and yellow (and red and white).  Stephen said in his sermon that a good portion of adult Christians don't believe in the Holy Spirit.  How can that be?  How do they explain themselves?  Sometimes, even in the old hymns, I can feel the Spirit moving.

    And now I'm watching a "literal music video" on YouTube; I highly recommend them.  Search for "Take on Me" and "Turn Around" in the literal versions if you need a laugh.

    So, this week...  Well, to start, Emmy and I went out to Pittsburgh and stayed at her Paw's house for two nights.  We went and saw "Spring Awakening" on Wednesday night.  Back in January or so, I listened to that soundtrack multiple times in a row nearly every day, and when we found out it was coming to the Burgh, we had to get tickets.  I didn't listen to it at all during Lent, and then I refrained from listening to the recording again until we saw it.  My reasoning: when I saw Wicked, I liked it less than I might have because I'd listened to the original cast too often.  Rent was just amazing because it had three of the original cast members (and Mimi was much better than the original Broadway one).  It took a scene or two, this time around, to get used to the slight actor-to-actor changes in tempo/rhythm/ornamentation, but once I did, I loved the cast.  Ilse was perfectly cast--and dressed; she looked, sounded, and acted just right for her character.  Moritz wasn't what I was expecting, and he wouldn't have been good for a cast recording, but he was perfect for his part, too.  He really got across the attitude that was necessary.  Hanschen reminded me of Draco Malfoy.  The musical is moving if you let it; if nothing else, it has a strong power behind it.  I liked that they held microphones during most of the songs.  You can look at all of the topics in it--sex, abortion, masturbation, abuse, homosexuality--and condemn them, but doing that won't make anything different.  Wedekind showed, a hundred years ago, that children will be curious and that our society is handling things the wrong way, in his writing of the play on which "Spring Awakening" is based.  I think it's a fabulous (if totally not-camp-appropriate) musical, and I'm really glad I got to see it with Emily.

    I had a few hours at home between getting back from P'gh and leaving again. 

    I smile, thinking of how I could smell the wood smoke on Adam's clothes when I got to the campground; after showering last night, I still smelled like it, too.  It managed to rain for the first night, and because one tent leaked, we ended up sleeping in one four-person tent--all six of us.  (We slept in two tents the second night, when it was dry out.)  It was me, Adam, John from camp, and three of the girls from Adam's school: Sarah, Kat, and Gwen.  We made for a fun, if lazy, group.  Every meal was cooked over the fire, and we spent most of the time just spending time together various places.  At one point, I thought it would be fun to play Sardines in a boulder field.  Uh, not the best idea.  We saw a nice 5' long black rat snake in the rocks, sunning itself; fortuantely, the girls love snakes.  Gwen and I saw a baby corn snake, too.  The six of us got along really well; it's a nice group of girls, even if I felt left out sometimes, not being a Gettysburg kid.  Maybe the best part was seeing John and Kat together; I wish them all the happiness they can have (in the LDR club...).  She needs a good man, and he needs someone [female] who really cares about him.  So, yes, cute.

    Well, I had a lot of other things to write about, but I didn't do a very good job.  Oh well.  Now, I probably ought to catch up on the three billion letters I ought to have written weeks ago.  I have a CPR course, a pile of mulch, appointments, and job shadowing in the two weeks before camp.  Hoorah.

    -CMK

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