up with kady

ok just to comment on this lovely little notes some of you left me from sunday.

- sarah your are soooo talented so shut up. i can't wait to get home and sing sanctuary with you!
- mom and karyn. no i did not get to mass. my host family is not catholic and its like a 20min drive to the church and they already had plans. they said they're going to try and get me there next week.
- neal. i just love you. hahaha i feel very honored that i made the list.

ok monday. UNREAL DAY!!!!!

so today was the day where we found out which cast we were on. aka where we were going and who we were going with. i was sooo nervous!!!! i didn't care where i went but i was sooo scared that i was going to be split up from every friend that i made so far. but obvioulsy they didn't tell us till the end of the day. argh.

so we had talks in the morning about leadership and admissions training. nothing too exciting (sorry if some of the staff read this!!!). then lunch. which we ate outside. then we were spilt into our color groups for movement/voice/band for those of us doing that. so i went down the the dungeon to work on my little keys. jochanan, my keyboard teacher extrodinare, worked with kristen and i for a good little amount of time. we learned two songs. putting my total at five or six i think. not fully learned, but a basic knowledge. tomorrow i'm going to find out which ones i'll be the main keyboardist for. if any i guess. who knows.

anyways so after band we went up to the ballroom to find out which cast i was in. and this was how my stomache was feeling.

AGHGHGHAGHGHGHGOOOOOOOOAFGFGFGFAGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH BLECHBLECHBLECHOOOOOOOOO AGHGAGHGAGHGAHGHAGHAGHAGHAGHAGHAGH!

yeah a little uneasy. its hard to type/describe that feeling. but hopefully you all follow.

so i grabed johnny by one hand and raine by the other. i couldn't do it alone. but then johnny ditched me. so raine and i walked into the ballroom, hand in hand, nervous and excited and curious and scared out of my mind at least (raine was playing it cool and calm. loser. love you!). so we walked around the room to see which list our names were on.

and this isn't a happy part. raine and i were split. my little canadian boy and i will be travelling without each other (see raine, you're not just going to be missing me. i'll miss you too!). so i left him with his group and went off to find others that were meeting in 'base one'. we still didn't know which cast we were on, we just knew who we were going to be with. everytime i found someone i basically pounced them with a hug. it was sooooo exciting - seeing who you are going to spend 5 months worth of adventures with - and yet so sad knowing who you weren't going to be with. like my super awesome current roommate lauren.

so we gathered outside base one (basically a really big room) and waited. and took a lot of pictures. when jalee and i saw each other we basically tackled each other. i'm sooo pumped that we're going to be together!!! and then i saw brodie and then andrew, and sarah and johnny. and then sooooooo many others that are just awesome people and i'm soooo pumped to get to know everyone that i don't know as well yet!!! and then they opened the doors.

the lights were off and there was screaming and yelling and laughing and jumping and highfiving. and we had a little dance partyish thing. and then we sat down. and then they told us

WELCOME CAST C JULY 2007!!!!!!!!!

YEAH! so more screaming and yelling and clapping and fit pumping and whistling (thanks guido. my ears still hurt from that) and hugging and man just awesomeing.

they called out everyones name and after every person the same reaction as above.

KADY . . . . . the united sta. . . ugh i mean CANADA!!!!

yeah. not the first time. oh well. and i'm the only canadian on the cast. representing our whole ginormous country on my own. wish me luck!!!

and then we found out all the staff thats going with us. more screaming, clapping etc.

and then andrew read this really awesome introduction thing. actually that might have been before they read our names. and yeah i teared up a little at one point. andrew kind of laughed at me. but you guys at home know how much it takes me to cry. like the notebook didn't ever almost cut it. but its just all soooo exciting and awesome and lifealtering and AGH!!!!!!

so . . . . anyone want to know where i'm going?!?!?! eh? here it is!!!!

aug 6 - gallup, new mexico
aug 8 - tucson, arizona
aug 13 - la, california
aug 17 - phuket, thailand!!!
aug 27 - nampong, thailand
sept 5 - espoo, finland
sept 12 - sodertalje, sweden ****note here. we're taking an overnight CRUISE from finland to sweden and we're performing on the ship!!!!!! UNREAL EH?!?!?!
sept 17 - vimmerby, sweden
sept 24 - uelzen, germany
oct 1 - erfurt, germany
oct 8 - hasselt, belium
oct 15 - atlanta, georgia (tentitive)
and then nothing is booked yet but it will be on the east coast of the usa. like massachusets, maryland, maine, new hampshire, washington dc. stuff like that.
nov 22 - MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE!!!!! we're getting a minute of air time! when you first think about it it doesn't sound like a lot, but when you second think about it it really is.

and then two more undetermined stops on the east coast and then home december 10th. six days before my birthday.

wow. wow wow wow wow wow. i'm sooo excited.

so yeah. we all kinda freaked out more and had a dance party and got really sweaty. and then we visited cast B!!! and had another dance party! its the cool thing to do around here. cait you'd love it.

then we left and raine, scott, sara, gina, amy, shannon, lauren and i went out and got a coffee and hungout at a cute little cafe/notstarbucks place. and then we went home and we ate and i finished watching monty python with sienna and now i'm just typing away like a madwomen.

what a day!

goodnight all.