Hello Everybody...

Yeah, I know it has been a long time, but I have found other things in life that have proven to be more important than xanga...believe it or not...Anyway, lif e is good, a lot is happening but that is not for now. Here are a few more expressions from my improve class~

Every step you take,

Every move you make,

Is a display of your personality and style.

Never to be replicated,

Never the same personality.

You bring something new to the table,

In every way that is possible.

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Currently Listening Breakaway By Kelly Clarkson see related

Hello All.....

Wow....it's been a long long long time since I have written. So much has happened,  things have changed (for example: xanga is farther down on my list) days have gone by, people have come and gone....okay, I'll stop now.

      I guess the biggest things that happened were the tornados last night.  I was stranded at church for an extra two hours but I was with great people and church is where I'd want to be if anything happened. I didn't realize it that night but things DID happened. It was astounding. Six tornados touched down in our county, five of them in my city. One of them touched ground in the downtown area and left its mark for three and a half miles.  The storm tore all of the street lights of the poles and left ripped wires hanging, the stop signs are now in the shape of a right angle, all of the glass windows were popped.  Beautiful full trees were striped of their bows and left has a naked column in the ground. It was sheer power displayed there.

Doesn't this just break your heart?!?!?!

Today, I had an experience that I won't forget. I left school after lunch to volunteer cleaning up and little did I know how bad it was. I went with our church's college group and of course I passed for one of them from the start! We took three pick-ups and headed downtown looking for needs. A guy in a cowboy hat said his neighbor was just getting started with his clearing and was in desperate need.  So we went over there and found what was his garage and now was completely flat. The couple were almost in tears when they saw us with our chainsaw, gloves, and rakes. After three hours of picking up that garage, board by board, in that neighborhood ....we moved on and got lost trying to find a friend's house. Actually my choir director's house who also had some bad damage.  And you know what the first thing he said to me was? "Does your mom know where you are, Natalie?" Dang!  My pride was crushed.  Oh well, for a while my fellow workers thought I was an equal. Actually, a girl from our worshipdance team was in my group soooo she still loved me!

       So that's how I spent my day off from ballet.  I definitely make the most of things!  I just had to do something for people.  That neighborhood looked like a bomb zone.  In a way, our city, my home, suffered its own Katrina. I am just glad we reacted that way we did, helping one another and sharing God's love along that way. I have never seen anything like this destruction in real life, let alone my own city!

Take care everybody,

Natt

P.S. I have such a bad sunburn on my shoulders!  I thank God that it wasn't raining though, that would be one sticky mess!