Invisible Children and surely other arbitrary things...

Well, well, well. Here we are again. In part because I was going to anyway, and in part because my mom suggested updating about this, I am going to tell you what I will be doing August 11. I will be running around like crazy making sure Amanda, Sarah, and myself pull off this event that I still can't believe is more than a pipedream. But, I'm getting a little ahead of myself, really, so let me reel it back. It started last year, over Christmas Break when a friend told me to watch a trailer for this movie called The Invisible Children. My heart was stirred, but I still wasn't sure what it was really about. So, when I saw a month later that they would be showing it at school, I was ready to go. So, I watched this movie. It's about what's going on, and has been going on in Uganda and Sudan for 20 years. (Now, to me, this was especially significant. This had been going on for as long as I had been alive). But, more than that, this was about children. You see, the L.R.A., in order to get more soldiers, abducts children from their homes, brainwashes them, and forces them to fight in the army. While doing this they often kill children who resist, or even at random, to desensitize the kids to killing. However, these kids, to avoid this, have started commuting to the larger cities every night. That's walking a couple hours barefoot. Now, I know this is starting to sound a little, Save the Children, 10 cents a day, but, it's me guys. And it's unreal to me, that it's going on. So, here comes in these three guys. They went to Africa to make a movie, find a story, and now they have this huge organization to help these kids have something more to live for. They are building schools, giving hope, and even working to end the war. So, me and my aforementioned friends were thinking one day, we should do something. Well, we had all been thinking individually for a while, but then one day, boom, one of us said it...and we actually did it. We rented a place, and we are having a benefit concert and art auction. We have 5 bands playing, and people are donating art, and we are going to have people bid on it. We've got someone donating t shirts, we have bands donating time. The only cost for this is the place we are renting, but we are doing a cover charge to take care of that. So, that's it. It could be big, but we need prayer. Just for thinking of all those details, and for the people who said they would help us to follow through. And for lots of money!
In other news, I'm getting a new car. A darling green 2000 hyundai accent. Only, uh, it's manual, and technically, I only drive automatic. But, don't worry, I'll learn soon, I mean how hard can it be? No, really, it's not hard, right? I named it Fern. Haha, for many reasons. For one, it's so much better for the environment than my dear Taurus. It gets like 30 miles to the gallon! Woo hoo! And, ferns are anciently symbolic for fruitfulness and loyalty, and they are hearty plans. Which is just the sort of thing I need in a car. Besides, it's totally cute. It has no song yet, because we haven't been cruising enough, but basically it's my hippie alter ego.
Well, that's all for now. I need to be going to bed soon, because I have a double teeth appointment tomorrow. Denist and orthodontist. No fun. But, thanks for all the comments, I'm lovvvvving it. I'll respond to any comments I think necessary within the comment field, if that makes sense, and it does to me!