I'm Back From The Real World

Ok, readers (and by readers, I mean Mom, since really you're probably my only follower....Hi Mom!), I am really sorry that I've been gone from blog world for so long! I've been busy and/or lazy.

Sooo even though it's almost JULY, I want to tell you about Easter.

Easter was a lot of fun. Here at JPUSA, they have Fest For Us, which is a big celebration that goes on in the house for three days. We have all kinds of stuff...concerts, a coffee shop, a guest speaker, a cotton candy stand, a snow cone stand, a talent show, movies, treats, and much more!
We had a great dance party Saturday night which was a lot of fun and for which we got all dressed up....I love dancing with my girlfriends! Especially to 80s' music, it's great =)

For Easter Sunday's after-dinner party a bunch of people did a couple of funny skits that really depicted our community haha

The first one was of a bunch of guys sitting at a table together. They're playing cards when, all of a sudden, sirens start going off, a bunch of weird noises are heard in the background, and they all get text messages saying that the city's getting bombed and that they need to go somewhere safe. The guys say that the building is safe enough and they get back to their game. Then, someone walks in saying, "Guys! Guys! I just went down to the dining room and someone's moved the dinner line to the other side of the room!!!". All the guys throw down their cards, get upset, start yelling and complaining about it, and run out the door.

The second skit was about an inspector coming to our house (which happens once or twice a year, I think). It started out with "the inspector" coming into our lobby where "Lia McCoo" (a lady who at the time worked at our front desk and who is a very talented musician pictured on the right), played by one of our teenage boys, is sitting at the front desk in all her glory playing her flute. The inspector asks her for Ron Brown (one of our pastors, also pictured on the right). She answers him singing and calls Ron on his phone. "Ron Brown" then comes down, introduces himself, brings the inspector up to 7th floor (our 8th, 9th, and 10th floors are for our senior program and then 7th through 2nd are floors where community members live) and leaves him there. The inspector notices that the floor is very clean and very quiet, so quiet, in fact, that you can hear wind blowing in the background. He then takes some gum out and throws the wrapper on the floor. Immediately, a siren goes off and a bunch of children jump out, clean the floor, and disappear again. A very weird creepy guy in an interesting costume comes out mumbling something about children and the inspector runs away. (7th floor is the nicest floor in the house, very clean and very quiet with hardly any children on it, so they decided to explain this fact by saying that it's because of the creepy Child Catcher from the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie...though I've never seen it, so I didn't really get it)
The inspector then goes to 6th floor. He says it's not too bad and is about to leave, when Dorena (played by herself) comes out of her room (Dorena is another one of our interesting characters ... here's a picture of her on the left. She likes to wear parts of animals [bones, furs, eyeballs, claws, etc] and during Easter she went around with a knife sticking out of her chest and fake blood on her) and invites him into her room in a very witch-like way. The inspector freaks out and runs away and Dorena starts crying dramatically saying "They never want to stay for dinner".
He comes to fifth floor (my floor! Which is the craziest floor in the house). The inspector notices the toys on the floor, the dirty walls, and then, all of a sudden, a person in a straight jacket runs down the hall way chased by two other people who are screaming and they trample the poor man.
The man gets to 4th floor and notices the scent of spices in the air, "Hilde" (played by her daughter) is playing her chello, little "Sarah V.A." (played by another one of our high schoolers) comes out with a big pot of lentils and asks him if he wants some, "Scott Ingerson" comes out singing a hippy song, and Martha Rice (played by herself. She's a nice mom with long curly hair who just wears homemade Lond-of-the-Rings-style dresses) comes out saying "Let's all start some interpretive worship dancing!".
The inspector gets to 3rd floor (which people call the "ghetto floor" because it's falling apart) and three of our teenagers (two of which are black) come out acting very ghetto and grab the man and start beating him up while gun shots and hip hop music is heard in the background. "Connie" (played by my friend Michael dressed in one of Connie's crazy and fun outfits) runs out and starts yelling "Anthony!! Stop that! Leave that poor white boy alone!! Didn't I tell you to stop that! Go clean your room!". The poor guy gets up with his clothes all ripped up and runs away. He then runs through 2nd floor tripping over toys, boxes and strollers and finally gets to 1st floor in our dining room. Heidi (played by herself) is down there and she is not in a good mood (and believe me, you do not want to cross Heidi when she's in a bad mood). She grabs the inspector and starts yelling "Are you the new guy?!? Come here, do you see this?? Someone made a mess in the dining room again and didn't clean up!! Don't you know we have an inspector coming??? Come here, here's a rag and some bleach. Start cleaning!" and she walks out (Heidi is in charge of the cleaning crew and she hates it when the dining room is dirty). Soon after, "Freddie" ( an older man who comes into our house all the time and who has mental problems) comes up to the man, shaking his hand and starting to talk, but the man runs out of the building.
In the end, "the inspector" calls "Ron Brown", saying "I'll do anything you need me to do as long as I don't have to come back there ever again!". After they hang up, "Ron" smiles and says, "Works every time!".

All of us in the audience could not stop laughing. I think I was bent over with tears in my eyes. Of course, knowing the people and the floors makes the skit even funnier, but I think it's funny anyway. Hope you enjoyed it =) Wish I had a video of it!!

Oh, our pastors also made a video that was shown that night as well. They basically thanked everyone for helping out in all of the different work areas, from doing dishes to working at the shelter to working at one of our companies. At the end of the video, all of the pastors did a bollywood dance which was hilarious!!! I'm trying to get the video from someone so I can show it to you all!!

Ok, gotta go. Will post more later!