Yesterday was show day and I was lucky one and I had to get up at 4AM to be ready at 5AM to start setting the stage up. We had super set up as our first show was about to start at 3PM, so that was the main reason why did we have to get up so early.
Both shows were amazing as this are almost our 2 last shows. Next city is going to be our last show and everyone are aware of the fact that end is coming closer and closer so everyone are very emotional.
I was feeling soo tired whole day and fact that we had to wake up at 4 didn’t help me much, especially waking up 3 days in row at the same time and going to sleep every 3 days around 11PM. I thought I’m not going to have any strength for the show, but green room always wakes me up and I always remember reason why am I doing this and why should I be all in when I’m performing in the show.
We were first one performing in Bernardsville High School auditorium as they just build it and we had that honor to perform first.
Today was host family day and Jaakko, my roommate, and me, we were sleeping in till almost 11AM and after that we had “branch” (or to translate: late breakfast, early lunch) and our host family had plans to take us to Thomas Edison laboratory and house, but unfortunately when we came, laboratory was closed because they are restoring it and house was closed because of bad weather.
Oh, yeah… speaking about bad weather… how could I forget to tell that we had our first Up with People snow today and when I woke up, everything was white. I would say that it was around 5-10cm of snow.
After that, they took us to national park where American Revolutionary War was happening. Just to tell you little bit about the history…war was taking place in 1775–1783 between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent and George Washington was commander in chief. It is huge hiking place, but we went to visit one of the houses that people gave for use to American army and there were people dressed up as Americans in that time and they told us some interesting stories about that time. I even tried how it was to be American solider in that time, wearing all different things with you which are heavy, together with old gun.
In the evening we went to visit Hindu temple and we had dinner there. It was south Indian food and it was amazing. I love Indian food. Tempe looks really nice and I would never before imagine that I would be in US and that I would be standing in front of amazing Hindu temple and have feeling like being in India. Who could imagine having such cultural experience?
When we come home, we just relaxed a little bit and started talking about everything.
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