In the pool locker room today… Girl 1: i am on the swim team. Girl 2: um, me too. Girl 1: our swim team has over a hundred people on it. Girl 2: um, my swim team only has three people… and it is really really far away…laugh laugh…um, in new mexico. Girl 1: (without question or doubt) oh. that is a small team. conclusion: Girl 2 is a liar… sometimes people do that note to self: don’t lie
as big people our lies are complicated… but for the record… i can handle that which is complicated…i think... maybe i am just lying to myself?
why? because i thought it would be cool... it was only $1.75 at the dollar theater...
my friend heather started cracking up when the blind albino emerged from underground and started blabbering prophecies... she laughed... i did too... she said, "i dont know why this is so funny to me"
time with heather makes even 10,000 B.C. totally entertaining... so i recomend it if you are too cheap for a real movie and if you can talk heather into seeing it again.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
i take photos less than often... because i have dropped my camera more than a camera should be dropped... so do excuse the quality of the following photos...
a few weeks ago my little friend adam was baptized... he was born while i was on my mission... i dropped him once trying while trying to impress a boy... i guess the boy wasn’t impressed, because he is now making his own babies in another state... but little adam... i love little adam... little adam... named after his dad's best friend ... outside of relationships dad's best friend adam was my favorite kiss... he is not the same one who flustered me so much that i dropped little adam...
about baptism
i remember being baptized...i remember fighting with my family... i was pretty sure that i wanted a divorce from my entire family that day... but after my baptism i felt totally at peace... i tried to be pissed, but it didn't work... all of the irritation/frustration i had felt in the morning was replaced with peace...
i watched little adam on his day... while everyone else in attendance seemed completely swept up in a whirlwind of chaos, adam's countenance reflected that same peace... you can see it in his eyes and smile...
even if he doesn't remember what chums we were back in the day i still really love him... even if i threw him up and forgot to catch him... i am so relived that i don’t get that nervous around boys anymore...
I told people about it, but not too too much. Mostly because I hate this feeling I put on myself to be responsible for the entertainment of others… but it was really good! Wish I would have promoted it more.
From what I understand a guy from Uganda went to Burundi and started the Burundi film center. There hasn’t been a film made in Burundi since 1990 me think. He said that there are many people making films in Uganda, but no-one was documenting life through film in Burundi. The country has been warring since the 1972 genocide. There are many Burundian refugees in SLC that started arriving last summer from refugee camps in Tanzania.
But the films were not about war. They were about social issues that Burundians face every day. Poverty, Rape, HIV, death, birth, justice, love… It was great. The Center showed these films in the streets of Burundi where thousands gathered to watch. The film maker said that many people in Burundi are illiterate. By addressing social issues through film the population is educated about these issues where other resources are unavailable to them.
One short story was about an engaged woman who was raped. She feared that her fiancé would no longer want her. Afterwards the filmmaker informed us that in Burundi some women are killed by their families after being raped because it is such a shame. So this message to an uneducated Burundian audience is HUGE!!! I am not saying all raped women are killed, but it does happen. So the film makers suggesting that it wasn’t the woman’s fault, and that a man can support his woman is beautiful. In the closing scene the woman is informed that she is HIV positive and her fiancé holds her hand and the scene closes… The audience understands that life isn’t going to be easy, but they are going to do the best they can together.
I am really glad I went. And the Q&A with film makers and actors afterwards was enlightening… and… I am sorry I didn’t push it on my SLC friends more…
In the pool locker room today…
