Day two at my group's service site was church-cleaning day. This meant painting, scrubbing the chairs, etc. The Friz, Sweet n' Spazzy and I washed all the church's chairs. Afterward I counted. It was something like one hundred and two. We also painted white walls...white. Admittedly they weren't the cleanest walls ever and looked better when the painters were done...
These jobs took all morning. After lunch we went out and did more prayer walking. Another job was to invite people to karaoke night that night. I was with Sparky, The Joker and Pixel. Pixel being the only one in the group to speak fluent Spanish, she coached us on the proper phrases and we took turns inviting people. (And we found a banana tree growing on the sidewalk. This was another discovery that really excited me.)
When we got back we discovered that Glove Love had actually put his training to good use and greeted the woman who worked at a little restaurant thingy across the street from the church we were working for with a kiss - and the restaurant had given us a whole lot of free juice. So, over bottles of tasty Mexican orange juice stuff, we reviewed what we'd seen, etc. But something was nagging. So when we were finished I crawled up into the corner of the donated Burger King playplace (remember, this was also a party salon) with my journal and pencil, and wrote a song.
It occurred to me, "Hm. For once in my life, I'm actually around people who write music." So I went and asked The Joker, who is some sort of musical genius, to put music to it. (He did. I got to hear the song to music a couple days later.)
Then we had karaoke night. At first it was just us, but finally a bunch of Mexican teen guys came in. One of them knew the whole dance to Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and danced while Enrique and Glove Love sang. It was so funny. And they spoke some English, and that, with our limited Spanish, was enough to let us get to know each other some and to invite them to the soccer outreach at the park the next day.
After karaoke night, and presentation/skit practice, we had Table Talk and called it a day.
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