Our Morning Meeting today consisted on decorating our "house" for Halloween tomorrow. That was fun, but what was really special about today's Morning Meeting is that Javier showed us a video of an episode of the Ellen Show, which is one of the funniest things I've witnessed this month. I will share it with you guys because it is TOO FUNNY. 

I actually found a series of videos featuring Amy reporting from different locations, I will share them all with you. 

Graces loves dancing, so she played us a couple of videos related to dancing. First she showed us a video about how people feel about dancing and then she showed us a dance routine she likes a lot from a BBC TV Show called You Think You Can Dance. 

To be honest, dance is one of my favorite arts, it is so beautiful and graceful, most times. I find it fascinating how people can be so coordinated and flexible. To me it is just mesmerizing to watch, especially ballet, or tango. 

Grace sees a connection between the dance routine in the second video and what we do at MPC, she says that every dancer has a role and it looks pretty composed from outside, and each dancer is key to the meta structure of the team.

To me, it also says that each dancer has the responsibility to keep up with his or her dance crew, and to do the very best job he or she can in order for a number to look good, and for the time invested in creating and practicing it is worth it and not wasted. 

Anyways, here are the videos:

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. 
Joel Osteen 


Lorena shared with us an excerpt from a video of Joel Osteen preaching in Houston. Carmen said he looks like a Greek God. I liked the peace in his voice. When I think about a preacher, I always picture a black man screaming at the audience, all sweaty and his voice coarse (from all the screaming). Joel Osteen doesn't scream at all, in fact, his voice is so sweet and calm and almost nurturing. I liked that about him.

Today I was late to the Morning Meeting because I woke up SERIOUSLY LATE. I don't know what happened to the alarm... but I called Bert and told him I was going to be late, which still is not cool. 

They told me that Johann read something he wrote, and I'm crushed that I wasn't there to see it because I've been yearning for him to get real and become a part of the group. Today he finally made the commitment to himself to be early and to be actually there everyday. Not wasting his time, as he put it, as he has been doing it since we began.

I was very moved by some of the comments, intrigued by others and plain bored and a little  annoyed by the "you have cool glasses" one. I was actually angry because I made a point to see the positive in everybody, even though I get tired of some attitudes some people adopt. And granted, I'm not saying everybody has to like me, on the contrary, but even when you don't like a person, you can be mature and recognize positive attitudes or characteristics in them. 

I find it interesting that everybody sees me as organized, and centered... when I don't feel like that at all. 

Carmen's Morning Meeting got me thinking about what I can do during my next Morning Meeting and how I can engage everybody in some sort of dialogue. I'm thinking....

Today my sister Inés led the Morning Meeting, and after asking if anybody had any announcements, she showed us this video she saw the other day. I almost didn't make it on time. I actually thought I was going to be late because I sacrificed myself so my sister could get in time and I went and parked the car hahaha. But THANKFULLY I 

The clip is about self Motivation, which I've learned that is what really gives you independence and makes you self-reliant (there are other ways that add to this, but self-motivation is an aspect of self-government, in my opinion).

Here's the video

We also talked about how we're going to raise money for our trips and we decided we will talk about it at 3pm. We agreed we will each bring their own mug so each person is in charge of washing it and leaving it clean at the end of the day. This has been a challenge.

Pablito shared with us this video today in an attempt to explain why he loves Classical Music. He achieved this only partially with me because I was busy having a heart-fixing (antonym of heart-breaking) epiphany.

I cried as I realized this woman, the oldest survivor of the Holocaust alive today, remembers her life with joy. No bitterness, no sadness or hate. She is truly happy with the life she has had until now (she was 106 when the video was made). Her life speaks and it inspires me so much. I want to be like her, I want to look back and regret nothing, I want to be able to love life, love GOD, love love like Alice Sommer does.

She says music is God, she said that even though she was a prisoner of war, things were not so terrible because there was music. She makes the world a better place just by loving everone and everything. And through a fragment of documentary (excellent fragment by the way) she changed my life.

I'm crying as I write this because I feel so in contact with my soul, with the kid inside me that wants to go out and love everybody like I used to. I feel so blessed and so grateful.

omahgash i didn't know i could do this.