So...it's been a few days. We've been practicing vagrancy - a day here, a day there, very little free time, very little net access. We are now in Louisville. Here's a summary of the last few days between Memphis and Louisville.
Martin. We were in Martin, TN for a few hours. We did a screening at UT Martin. April and I bought a small coffee maker and we brew it up in the most obscure places - just plug it in - like the empty stage in an auditorium. Anyway...the screening went off well. We met some really cool people that were involved with Baptist Campus Ministry (BCM).
After the screening, we went and "stayed" at the BCM house. We didn't really "stay", because we had to leave for Frankfort at 2am to get there by 8am that morning. Being at BCM was like a little spiritual refreshment, albeit short. The people were so loving and it was good to fellowship with them. They made us good food, and let us shower and we were off.
Frankfort. We drove all night...it was intense. The screening was at Western Hills High. All these kids in Kentucky went to this state-wide scholarship program called Governor's Scholar Program - a 5 week long academic/leadership camp. At this GSP thing, every student saw Invisible Children and got amped on it. So every high school we've been to in KY so far has been put on kids that saw it at this GSP thing...and they've all been incredible. These Kentucky High School screenings will be hard to beat.
So...Frankfort. The screening was cool. The kids were so real and were very excited for Schools for Schools and other ways to get involved. We stayed with the student body prez, Kelsey, and her family. So we drove 30 minutes out on this windy road to a hilltop farm - 100 acres of woods, a country home, horses and good hospitality. It snowed in the morning...it was freezing, but beautiful.
Then we came to Louisville. We met up with Anna, a high school student who was hosting us. Her house was incredible - an early 1900's farm house that had been remodeled and expanded. Then we went to dinner at her dad's restauarant - Avalon - it was about 40 bucks a plate...free. Incredible. We have been so spoiled on this trip, it feels unfair.
More to come on Lousiville...with pictures. We've been here the last 3 days.
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Haha, skü!
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. But everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
---The Sheltering Sky
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