Hey Bloggers/Wooters/and everyone reading!
I figured today at the airport was a great day to put up my last post until I return from break. I must tell you all again...I am wiped out this year...goodness it has been a packed, never-ending, always-traveling year for me...and I am ready to rest up for SR 2011. I must say that looking back on this year, I am amazed at what we have done...the HARDEST SR song ever...and mastered by SOOOOO many of you! It is great to see you all so excited everytime it rolls around in a show...you have made me very proud at your willingness to Never Give Up, do Whatever It Takes, to challenge yourself and master the impossible. Though I do think it is what has me more worn out than ever...that darn choreography...teaching it practically everytime has kept me sore and tired since August...but it was worth it! Now, you can look forward to whatever I decide to do with Music Again...starting in January.
Had a great last show in New Underwood, SD yesterday with drummers from Rapid City and Faith both...and we should have NEW drummers joining Rapid from New Underwood...it was a great school. Personally, not one of my better shows...I was tired going into it and sounded tired during it, but I guess the audience all had a great time, and they listened well to my updated Kelli meets Amanda 2 story...so that was a good way to end shows for me in 2010.
My annual Christmas letter to the SR family is on its way pretty soon...please read and respond to it, since there is a question for EVERY member in it :)
Elizabeth Johnson, from Faith, had a speaker at school yesterday before she headed to our show...who talked about some great things...from her email to me about this experience:
V.J. Smith wrote a book named The Richest Man in town and he was at our school today talking to the high school about it. Anyway today he one of the things he talked about was how people should say thank you more often, and everytime that he does something and doesn't get thanked for it he will give that person a card. So he handed these out today and then afterward if you wanted it signed he signed it. He is such a good speaker thought that he was making himself cry.
This made me think of something to challenge us all in SR for 2011...simply being DECENT to our fellow human beings...saying things like "Thank-you", "Nice to Meet You", "How are You", "How can I help", etc...would make the world a much better place if everyone practiced that golden rule of treating others as you wish to be treated. (THOUGH keep in mind...to say these things "just to say them" is not enough...you must actually MEAN them, and make a real connection to others, not just be fake and superficial!!). So, I challenge all of us to find ways to bring more decency into our world...because in my daily adventures I do see so much rudeness and very little human compassion...and maybe we can find new ways to DRUM decency back into people...something for you all to think about.
To my Woot Woot writers, readers, and followers...thanks for a fun year on the Blog. We will do more with it next year...one way or another, since we did not quite do all I had planned this year, but that is the way of things...some things work, others do not, but you just keep Never Giving Up!
A blessed Holiday period to you all...enjoy family and friends...and I will see a few of you in late December, and everyone else in the New Year!
Until then,
I think I see more of this rudeness in college than I did in high school, which is hard for me to believe. Although, I have found one person, kind of, who really does take time to thank people for what they do. So as some of you know I work in the dish room at my school caf. It is a really smelly and pain in the butt job, but hey it is money. Yesterday during my early morning work shift I found a napkin hanging off one of the trays as it was coming around for me to unload. Someone had taken the time to write "thank you for all that you are doing for us, even though we don't know who you are, or what all it is that you do!" Now, I don't actualy know who this person is (I do know that it is salsa man however {yet another story}). He or she took the time to say thank you to us in the dish room and it makes us feel so good when it happens. I try to make sure to say thank you when people do things for me, or even just simply smile as I walk past them as I go to my next class, but I think, no I know that I could do it so much more.
ReplyDeleteThat is an amazing story, Kelli!
ReplyDeleteThis concludes my first full year of SR! I'm no longer the Minneapolis newbie, since today we almost had more new and potential members than old members! Woot!
I agree! awesome story Kelli!!
ReplyDeleteSonja-Woot! that's awesome!!! Definitely a wootable moment!!
At my school people are to snarky to do anything nice. Not all..but most. One thing I always do is hold the door open for people and some say thank you.. others kind of give you a look like why are you doing that..but hey I like doing it. This one kid always shuts doors on people, then stands there and laughs about it. Truely I don't think it's not funny at all.. but they will learn sooner or later.
I'm super excited for the Christmas letter!!! I still remember last years. :D
Kelli- great story :)
ReplyDeleteHAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!! :)