Hey everyone, I know it's been a while.. So I'll try to catch everyone up. So yesterday (Monday) we had our show for grades above grade nine. Let's just say it's a bit more challenging than grade 7 and 8's! The school we went to was in Stouffville and it was rather interesting. It's safe to say that it is probably the worst behaved school I have ever seen. First thing's first: kids walking around wearing hats! What has this world come to?!?!?!? LOL in my day, hats were banned the moment you stepped foot into the school! And you should have seen the clothes that some (most) of the girls were wearing. Talk about not having a dress code. I actually saw one girl wearing a completely see-through belly top with just a hot pink bra underneath ... now that's class .... haha. Now, please don't think that I'm judging a book by it's cover here. We did give the kids a chance. However, they proved themselves pretty quickly to be very disrespectful. For example, three girls in the front row gave my friend Brittany the middle finger during her entire speach. Talk about rude! It was overall a very frustrating day.
Today's show was quite a bit better. Still a little disrespect from the students, but they were really great to talk to afterwards! It was a smaller school, only 500 kids and it was awesome because while talking with some of the students afterward, they seemed so interested in what we were doing! Three girls actually hung out with us for a while after and asked us how they could start the movement in their school. We encouraged them to start a "Live Different" club in their school and plan a Hero Holiday trip to Mexico and they were all for it! They literally went straight to the office after talking with us and before we left the school today, they had started a club. I also got to share the School of Leadership with a few kids who told me they had no clue what to do with their lives next year. I really feel that these students will have a huge impact on their school. It was so encouraging!
Anyways, Kitchener tomorrow --- 2 shows back to back, 2 live global classroom sessions, a concert, then one more live global to top it all off!
Nighty night :)
Absolute School of Leadership is an 8-month leadership program which will take me on a four-month long tour of Canada where I will be participating in motivational speeches in highschools. I will spend the other four months living in Mexico where I will be teaching english, building houses, helping to lead humanitarian trips and doing other volunteer humanitarian work . The organization is going through a transformation right now, changing their name from Absolute to Live Different!
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