Happy Thanksgiving to all! Hope you all have a great day of feasting, sharing of good times, and just being able to enjoy one another's company.
I'm here in Williamsburg with the family watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. The 'Heighty Tighties', which is the ROTC marching band at Virginia Tech, marched in the Parade which was pretty cool to see. Of course, the announcers, talked about the Tech massacre which kind of dampened the mood a bit but it was nice to honor them in that way. This is a good break with the family coming together and I'm excited to my other sister who is coming up tomorrow with my niece. There's just something about celebrating holidays that puts most people in the best of moods with all of life's troubles just seem to be put on hold. It is a nice feeling.
I watched Freedom Writers on Tuesday after hearing about clip that was used in the Social Justice track at 222. The clip was the scene where no one in the classroom knew what the Holocaust was except one kid. Overall, the movie was pretty good, a "change the world" kind of movie as Shane would put it.....haha it's a good phrase for this kind of genre. I've never really had a passion for helping out with Social Justice, I've done a lot mission work, but never really was "inspired" to do more until recently and I think this movie helped with that. Anyways, have GREAT Thanksgiving!!! :)
