Can't sleep...

Hey everyone,

My apologies for not updating the blog this past week...different times, I sat down to do it but my mind would go blank and I couldn't figure out what I wanted to say (no comments about my brain power! :)

So, it's close to 3am and I haven't been able to sleep so I thought I would get up and try this again. Life has settled back down again with classes and team...honestly nothing too exciting...just life. In a couple of weeks I'll be heading to La Paz to attend my first adolescentes (teens) camp with Vida Joven. This will be my first opportunity to meet with the jovenes leaders and get a better idea of how to shape my work with them. From having been at the Tarija Jovenes Camp, I'm very curious about what this camp with the teens will be like; the differences and the similarities.

Thinking of the Tarija camp, I forgot to tell you my story about how some of the girls tried to straighten my hair for a special dinner on the last night. They also asked if they could do my make-up. For those of you who don't know me, I have naturally curly hair (really curly hair and a lot of it) and although I like wearing make-up, I typically like the natural look. Well, Tarija is near the Argentina border and there's more humidity which can have an unfortunate affect on hair. There ended up being 4 girls who worked on my hair but unfortunately for all involved, it wouldn't fully straighten...it didn't look awful, just....different. I found out that hair products for curly hair that will stop friz don't work too well on hair that's been straightened :)

So, once my hair was done I touched up my make-up (even used a "heavier hand" for the night look) but as I was passing the girls to leave, they asked me if they could do my make-up because they wanted to make my eyes "pop". Another little aside...I don't need any help in making my eyes pop - they're big enough as are! Plus, I had already done my make-up and thought I looked pretty good :) Well, I thought, "why not?? It's called girl-bonding and building relationships". We only had a tiny mirror so I wasn't able to see the full effect until later that night - well, it was actually 3 in the morning. Words cannot describe how I looked except to say...throughout the evening, my hair had gotten even bigger and frizzier (I can't think of any other way to describe it) and my make-up??? Well, the term "drag queen" comes to mind.

Even thinking about it now, I can't help but laugh. And no, I do not have a foto of it and I will not be hunting one down to share with you all :) But even though I was waaaay out of my comfort zone, it was a great time with the girls and we've already talked about them coming over for a girls night at my place (I think I'll only let them do my nails :)

Anyway, it's now 4am so I'm going to close for now and try to get some zzz's...

'til next time,
rebecca