Well well well. Did you realize how much of a humor God has ?? Ive always known and I definitely realized it tonight.
Remember how I was telling you all yesterday about how I was discouraged with smaller schooler schools because I dont get as much of an audience réaction and it doesnt feel like they enjoy it as much because of that ?
Well, this morning we ended up going to a school with about 2100 students. YUP. Oh my thank you God for shoving my foot into my mouth. Quite humbling. I take it all back~
So the contrast between a school of 100 students, and a school of 2100 is beyond what my words could be able to express. It was so overwhelming. Our contact person was a very nice man, and he showed us around and walked us all over the campus and I felt like I was in some college (probably because this highschool was much bigger than the college I attended). Once we were told where to setup, we unloaded our things and headed to the huge gym. We had no help, which was fine. As i've said before, sometimes I like that better. And we were setting up while a huge class was having a pre-class meeting, so they were kinda there half paying attention to us and half paying attention to the teacher. We hussled though and got it up in no time. It also looked pretty good.
For the last 15 min, two very nice Young men helped us with speakers, sound check, and cords, and then we waited. I was literally so overwhelmed when the kids stormed in. I felt so tiny compared to the huge mass of children. I tried standing as tall as I could and smile, but that didn't help much. They were walking through our things, and not paying attention, and bumped into our projectors messing some stuff up, and thankfully some profs and the coordinator of the show helped push them away, but it def wasn't an easy task.
Tiffany took it away once they were all seated, and introduced the show. They barely listened to her. Cell phones were out, Ipods were out, kids were talking left and right, some yelling, others laughing, it was insane ! Some cheerleaders would whisper as "not so cool kids" would walk by and they would laugh at them, others were taking pictures of each other, couples were snuggling, while you could clearly point out different cliques throughout the crowd. Out of control is what they were.
So we played the vidéo and I honestly wondered if anyone got anything out of it. I was frustrated, especially at a point in our vidéo where the narrator talks about how sometimes its easy to turn to drugs and alcohol when things dont go our way or we feel depressed (and obviously he continued on by discouraging it), but as soon as the kids heard drugs and alcohol, they all cheered. I was like. Oh my Goodness ! I couldn't believe it. SO after much obnoxiousness, the show ended, and it was time for me to conclude, I was shaking due to my fear of public speaking, and having to do it in front of so many pairs of eyes. Oh my. But I prayed and said, God just take it away. And I think I did fine, I might've stumbled on my words a bit at one point, but the kids were probably so tired that they actually listened to me and contained themselves from their previous behavior, which was very nice.
So anywho such was my Thursday expérience. Thankfully, the principal and coordinator were very pleased and it being their first time having a Camfel show, I was afraid of the results, but they seemed to turn out well for the most part. So Praise God for that !
I even had kids at the end thank me and say it was really good, so as I've said before, even if the show helps out ONE child, its all Worth it !
We left Olathe and are now in Manhattan, KS.
Peace out,
Do
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