More Denver Delights...

This was us before Batman - which PS: was a great movie!

So this week has been crazy busy. In fact, I haven't even had time to keep up with my nightly journal :-0...

I'll try to sum up some of the highlights:

Friday we went on a scavenger hunt of downtown Denver. We toured the capital building, which is beautiful. We also ran around like nutballs trying to find all kinds of random stuff (and document it!).

We had seminars on how to do our Stand for Peace workshops in the schools. They are really informative and engaging. I think the kids will have a lot of fun... but also learn a great deal about more positive empowerment and diversity.

We also started blocking for our show. It is so neat to see everything start to come together. From the songs to the dances, and everything in between, I am in total awe of how much we have accomplished here in such a short time.

This week I have made it a point to talk to a new castmate each day. I am trying hard to get to know everyone as an individual... and to be good about writing details down so that I can remember.

Today I went white water rafting on the Arkansas River. It was such a blast - the rapids were class 3 and 4 (the highest that exist are 6, but the highest you are allowed to "run" or ride are 5's... so this required skill). On my raft we had me, Mayke (the Netherlands), Uli-Lisa (Germany), Jordan (Arizona), Collin (Texas), Tom (a host from Denver), and Vitor from Brazil. Vitor only speaks Portuguese, but had the time of his life. He had us in stitches the whole time - and he would throw his paddle into the air after a hard rapid and scream with delight - or scream at the rocks that stood in our way... as if it would make them move. Our raft totally had the most fun.

Birthdays here are a blast. We always do something exciting ~ thanks of course to our birthday crew. On Matt's birthday, he totally got pied in the face. Hopefully someone documented that.. because it made me laugh. It sounds so cool when we all sing happy birthday - because it is requested that everyone sings it in their native language. With 20 or so languages within the cast, it can be quite a mess of a song... but its special. To hear it - all together, as a unified group representing so much diversity.