Travel With Christa: Sorry sir, you have to leave that gun in your car to get coffee

After a screening at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN my teammates and I treated ourselves to a few hours off and went to a coffee shop. To my amazement I learned that I would be unable to bring my firearm inside with me while I sipped by cup of hot chocolate. I was really disappointed, because I generally carry a loaded gun with me everywhere I go...Ok, maybe I don't, but it still blows my mind that this had to be posted outside the coffee shop. Do I have to ask why this rule was made, or is it safe to assume that the rule was made because they had problems with it in the past. I don't know, either way I felt like I had officially traveled through Tennessee at that point!

My teammate Adam and myself safely enjoying our drinks at the coffee shop

duPont Manual High School, Louiville, KY.

This morning my teammate and I made the 3 1/2 hour drive from Franklin, TN to Lousiville, KY to put on an after school screening of Invisible Children's "The Rescue." There were about 161 students at the screening, and some teachers who were giving them extra credit, but I will pretend that they wanted to be there out of the compassion they hold in their hearts! :) ha. I did the tranition between the video and the update video, and of course messed it up. Eh, I am still learning right? I said something backwards, then had to correct myself, then tripped over my words and forgot what I was saying. Everything came across clear, I just had to restate what I was trying to say. Yesterday I did amazing, today not so well. I'll pick it up.

My teammate Adam setting up the merch table at duPont Manual High School

Afraid I was going to get locked out of the school, I thought it would be a good idea to use my cell phone as a door stopper.

Later this afternoon my teammates and I drove through downtown Lousiville to find a Strbucks to work in. WiFi, gotta have it. We settled on one right off of Muhamed Ali Blvd. I LOVE the downtown area. It is so beautiful and exciting. The architecture is so beautiful, I feel like I am living in the 1920s. I want to be a flapper, gah! haha. I had to se the bathroom, but the Starbucks was connected to a hotel. I walked through the hotel to find the bathroom and discovered that there was a "Hooked Rug COnvention" going on in the ballroom. I quietly laughed as I passed a table of women who were all over the age of 65...I think I made a hook rug when I was 10?

I went to the bathroom and there was a crowd of women standing outside the door staring at a guys who must have been about 20 years old cleaning the mens room right next to the ladies room. I stopped, "What the heck are they doing...?" Yes, they were gawking at the young, unsuspecting boy cleaning the bathroom. Poor kid. I marched into the bathroom laughing, again! When I came out I stopped to take a picture because I really did not think that anyone was going to believe me that there were conventions for hooked rugs. But seriously, it was hystyrical.

The entrance to the hooked rug exhibit

Fourth Street Live...I don't know what that means, but I am assuming that it is a trendy place to be. Love Louiville.

Right now I am at a students house from the high school we were at this afternoon. Her parents made us dinner, and are letting us do laundry. I am so excited! Tomorrow I have to leave the house here by 6:30 AM at the latest to get to a high school around the corner. I should be putting on tree screenings in the morning in classrooms, then two screenings in the afternoon as assemblies with my teammate Adam. Faith and Brennon are going to Central High School in the afternoon.

I am excited because we will get some time off this weekend, which means we will be able to get some work done. Time off doesn't really mean time off. It really means work days to do the work we cant do when we are doing screenings. My dream right now, to sleep more than 8 hours...I don't see that dream coming true in my immediate future. I suppose I will just keep on dreaming!!!!!

Miss you all! :)

Oh, here are some pictures from Uganda! :)

My new friends, Barbara, Esther, Jackie and Concy. I spent the day with them at St. Mary's Lacor learning about their school.

Lunch! Beans, Cabbage and Rice.

This is where Concy, Barbara, Jackie and Esther sleep with 61 other girls.

The foundation for the new girls dormitory. It is going to be beautiful and will house almost 200 girls! Much better than 65 girls in ONE room. There will be 12 girls per room, and each of them will have a closet. This is almost unheard of in this region.