It’s so very sad that people and their over-the-top egos make them look like such a horrible individual. An individual that makes you really wonder how long they have suppressed that nutty side of them that you’ve never seen. Ugh…it is a hideous sight. One day you think of this person as pretty level headed, someone who cares about the overall well being of most and the BAM!! The ridiculous EGO rears its ugly…disgusting face. One person thinks that someone else is trying to get one over on them when really the other person is not. And the other person who overreacts because of the shocking accusation lashes back in an almost inappropriate manner. Why can’t we all just get along? Well because of the aforementioned EGO! Put it aside people…none of us are better than anyone. We all have equal place in this world. No one, I mean NO ONE is more important than another in the eyes of whom it matters the most. God. So many people get wrapped up in their own little worlds of how important they think they are, or how important someone has told them they think they are. Give me a break. Be humble. Be willing and quick to help. Be slow to anger. Cool your jets! Get out of your own way for a minute….at least for a minute. Trying to poke your chest out to see whose is bigger does no one any good. Period. Needless to say, there was blowup here at work today…about something really petty and stupid. Someone feeling that they had to do something they shouldn’t because the previous day (when we were ashore) someone else didn’t do the same thing. There’s no fair and unfair here. It’s not an environment that you get five M&Ms and I get five M&Ms. A job needs to be done, so DO IT regardless of what someone did or didn’t do. Really, it is just for the birds! Dumb. Plain and simple.

So yesterday was another performance day. At first it seemed like it was going to be a bit sketchy. We rolled up to the site and most of what we see is dirt/mud ground, which is horrible for the heavy cases we have to tote and also to try to set up on that would have been a nightmare. At first it looked like we (the rock band) weren’t going to play solely because of the logistics of everything….but then they cleared this basketball court of everything and we were able to set up there. It seemed like a great little spot at first because there was a large tree shading the area, but as it always does…the sun shifted…or I guess I should say the earth shifted and betrayed us! Because the sun started baking almost all of us. Oh my gosh, I felt like a little baked sweet potato. And by the end, my skin was browned to a toasty crisp. And because I wore my sunglasses, I had a little raccoon eyes happening. The gig went very well. We played for the patients and some of the students at the school that the med site was. It was fun, and it got even better when we tore down and got out of the sun! Woo hoo! That cool AC’d bus was awesome! It was like the best tasting glass of Freon I’d ever tasted.

We made our way back to the HLZ and were back on the ship by about 1630. I showered (thank you very much) and relaxed for a bit before heading to dinner to enjoy lobster tail and steak. Holy Protein! It was delicious!

I went to bed early again last night…not as early as the previous night, but earlier than the few nights before last. No workout. Just rest. It was really great.

Here’s a pic of me with some school children in Colombia.
And one of me from yesterday with a "fan" LOL!
Thanks for stopping by!
Keisha