dancin' netto

so i get a little excited

Ok, so I get a little overexcited about Int'l Dance Day, but it's because I love dance. Check out the 2005 message:

http://www.iti-worldwide.org/pages/idd/idd.htm#A.2

posted by Lynnette @ vendredi, avril 29, 2005 0 comments links to this post   

Favorite International holiday!!!!

INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY!!!!!

Break it down as you walk down the street, kiss people (if you got into that yesterday), go out and dance, do the dishes, study for finals, work, whatever...Just D-A-N-C-E!!!

posted by Lynnette @ vendredi, avril 29, 2005 2 comments links to this post   

SCORE!!! National Kissing Day!!! MWAH!

Today is NKD!!! Kiss the ones you love...or even the ones you don't love...just don't get mono. I wonder if there's a higher incidence on national kissing day...that would be an interesting study to do, not very romantic I fear. Anyway, use this as an excuse to maaaake out!!! I promise, look in your newspaper, that's where I saw it.

Get ready for tomorrrrrrrow...it's my favorite INTERNATIONAL holiday of the year...hold your breaths!

MWAHHHHHH!

SWAK

Netto bobetto

posted by Lynnette @ jeudi, avril 28, 2005 2 comments links to this post   

OMG...am so important

posted by Lynnette @ jeudi, avril 28, 2005 0 comments links to this post   

In regards to Connie...

In regards to Connie...I had forgotten about aforementioned foot injury (although quickly recalled the pain of being stepped on barefoot by a stiletto heel). Part of the reason is because I have a new foot injury (ankle to be precise). Allow me to elaborate:

One fine Saturday evening (last saturday) it was Jorge's birthday. So we had some wine, some cake, and went to the bars. I was not necessarily so drunk when we went to this first bar (which shall remain nameless in case of legal action). I was about halfway through my glass of wine when I got up to do something, stepped off of the step and then apparently injured myself. *Note-color of step matches color of floor, especially in dark bar area with lots of people around. I thought I could save it, I was just off-balance...but before you knew it I was on my ass. Then I thought I could save my wine...no such luck, it was out of the glass the minute my ass hit the floor. Then, in slow motion, just like the rest of the fiasco, I saw my glass falling. I thought it was close enough to the floor that it wouldn't break...but it did. Alas. It was a sad moment. The bouncer came over and asked if I was okay...and then cut me off. First time ever. I've never been cut off before. It was sad, especially since I wasn't that drizunk.

So then I go to stand up and feel a seeeeearing pain in my ankle. Jorge was there and I asked him to help me and then to talk to me while I tried not to cry because it hurt (unlike in the aforementioned entry, alcohol probably did not affect the crying due to the intense pain). Luckily Debby Deberton was there and knows her physical therapy shiznit and officially announced it was sprained. I hobbled around all night, we took cabs, I drank more b/c it hurt and I felt stupid for being cut off and falling off of a step. I got pretty tipsy...okay, I passed out in Deb's car on the way to Boulder. Next day, not so fun. I had a golf ball on top of my foot and it was all kinds of black and blue. In conclusion...watch out for steps.

The weird thing was that the next day I judged dance team auditions in Boulder and there was a girl who had done the same thing essentially whose foot was in a cast! And then...my mom and I went to the grocery store to get crutches and this other mom came in and her son had done the same thing! But he told her he jumped off a step, but she said that she doesn't see him for days at a time since he goes to school at DU and that he was probably drunk and making up a story for her. I told her she was right.

It's better now, well...I think it is. I refused to use my crutches unless my mom was around b/c I don't like being called gimpy. and they're awkward. Crutches suck. I should probably still be using them but I'm a rebel. A maverick if you will...I go against the grain...and then fall off a step. Hmmm...maybe I should stop that.

posted by Lynnette @ mercredi, avril 27, 2005 2 comments links to this post   

Inspiration

I had a revelation during the U2 concert last week. I cried...I was kinda drunk, which I'm sure didn't hinder the tears, but still...I was moved. Bono (saver of the universe) has a new campaign, the ONE campaign (www.one.org) to end poverty thereby ending pretty much every other world dilemma...for the most part. Anyway, this tall South African man and his girlfriend were a couple rows in front of me and Steven and we asked what their white rubber bracelet was for. This was before the concert and we got the short version, but the guy gave me his bracelet and bought another one...a small feat to defeat poverty but heartfelt nonetheless. So I have this white bracelet on, and toward the middle of the concert they start singing "in the name of love" about MLK Jr. and getting more and more into world issues and how we need to take a stand and do soemthing to help...and then I pretty much lost it. I don't like crying...I dont' do it often, much less in the 10th row of the Pepsi center around thousands of people, but it happened.

I realized that since I left Aiesec, and even in my last couple of months in school and as LCP...I've been getting more and more wrapped up in finding a job, making money, getting out of debt, etc. etc. i.e. those 'real world' things that get in the way of saving the world one person at a time. As I get more and more wrapped up, I feel farther removed from the world of diversity and making friends all over the world and constantly asking myself "what can I do?". Aiesec gave me a sense of empowerment and motivation to actually do something good and I wondered why I wasn't feeling that anymore. So this was the realization I had, and of course I wear the bracelet every day and have been thinking about it quite a bit for the past week.

Now...to everyone on nomadlife, you are my inspiration. Today I re-encountered the feeling of empowerment that Aiesec gave me. Today I felt a surge of Aiesec PASSION that had slowly been dimming. Today, while I was browsing all of your weblogs...those of you who are abroad, who are studying for finals, who are reflecting on current events, who are still partying like CRAZY...I felt re-connected and ready to take on the responsibility of making a difference in whatever way I can. I've missed Aiesec so much in the past 4 months, it's indescribable to those who are unfamiliar with it. Albeit cheesy, I'm letting it all out, which is what you're supposed to do on these things I guess.

In conclusion to my ramblings... I feel like I'm home and it's comforting to know this is here...and makes me so happy!!! SCORE for Nomadlife and AIESEC!!!!

posted by Lynnette @ mercredi, avril 27, 2005 2 comments links to this post   

Eiffel Tower...

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Originally uploaded by gabby5155.

Check out what they're adding...it says 'peace' in what is sure close to being every language.

posted by Lynnette @ mardi, avril 26, 2005 3 comments links to this post   

A new nomad?

Truth? I haven't always been so great at weblogs...I have assured myself that this time will be tres different...only time will tell. I'm excited though! Now that I have one of those "job" thingies and am stuck behind a desk for a good part of the day emailing and calling people around the world (which is slightly reminiscent of just a few days in aiesec), I at least can live vicariously through other NOMADS.

posted by Lynnette @ mardi, avril 26, 2005 0 comments links to this post