Minnesoooota
I didn't write last night. We were in Omaha. There's nothing in Omaha. I can note with some interest that the weird collage in the La Quinta there is the same as the weird collage in the La Quinta in El Paso, so there's that.
We didn't get there in time for me to go to the Easter Vigil service, but this morning we got up early so we could stop in Des Moines Iowa for churchiness. Some folks went to the MCC, some went to the Lutheran church, and I dragged Robin to Roman Catholic mass at the catherdral. The church was beautiful, the priest was not so great, but there were lots of babies and I got to hear the classic hymns, so good deal. By the way, as far as I can tell there's not much interesting on the road from western Colorado to Minnesota, except for a very exciting truck stop with a movie theater and Keno games.
I'm actually writing this from a very comfy couch in Jake Reitan's house. His family fed us well and has filled the bus with Easter candy. Woot. We're currently having a meeting about that's happening at North Central University tomorrow. We'll be holding presentations in the park in the center of campus and possibly having a sit-in.
We just listened to the coolest thing ever. This young spoken word poet chica wrote a piece in tribute to us and some dude put it to music so now we have a kind of song. The chorus is "Fight for me Ride for me Candle in the night for me" or something like that. It's amazing. We were all crying and whatnot. I believe we're all getting CD's and I will share it. Also, I will be getting a CD of pictures of me. Most of these pics will be me hiding from the camera, but that's not the point.
Alright, I am off. Tschuess.
We didn't get there in time for me to go to the Easter Vigil service, but this morning we got up early so we could stop in Des Moines Iowa for churchiness. Some folks went to the MCC, some went to the Lutheran church, and I dragged Robin to Roman Catholic mass at the catherdral. The church was beautiful, the priest was not so great, but there were lots of babies and I got to hear the classic hymns, so good deal. By the way, as far as I can tell there's not much interesting on the road from western Colorado to Minnesota, except for a very exciting truck stop with a movie theater and Keno games.
I'm actually writing this from a very comfy couch in Jake Reitan's house. His family fed us well and has filled the bus with Easter candy. Woot. We're currently having a meeting about that's happening at North Central University tomorrow. We'll be holding presentations in the park in the center of campus and possibly having a sit-in.
We just listened to the coolest thing ever. This young spoken word poet chica wrote a piece in tribute to us and some dude put it to music so now we have a kind of song. The chorus is "Fight for me Ride for me Candle in the night for me" or something like that. It's amazing. We were all crying and whatnot. I believe we're all getting CD's and I will share it. Also, I will be getting a CD of pictures of me. Most of these pics will be me hiding from the camera, but that's not the point.
Alright, I am off. Tschuess.
posted by Di at 6:41 PM
1 Comments:
Yay Minnesota! I hope you enjoy the Twin Cities. You should feel right at home with all the other Norwegians there. Squeeze in a visit to the Mall (of America) or perhaps one of the 'dales (there are several malls ending in -dale including Southdale in Edina that is the world's first indoor mall). You should also get some DQ (Dairy Queen) as it is from Minnesota (along with post-its, scotch tape, and Target).
Much love from New Delhi,
Andrew (honorary Minnesotan)
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