Finishing up the college blogs - Williams College
The night of Harvard, I actually ended up staying in Boston with a friend. It was so amazing just to be able to sleep in a bed by myself and I was pampered a little too so that was very much needed. The next day one of our speakers, Nate - who is a fellow Bostonian - picked me up and we headed out to Williamstown, MA. It was a lovely drive, and I was really happy we got the time to talk since Nate had the luxury of not sleeping on the RV I hadn't really had the chance to get to know him before then.
We got there quite a bit ahead of the RV so we chilled at the local coffee house (I know! Me and coffee... go figure!). We people watched and and chatted and just when we were going to go walk around, the rest of the group shows up - so I go grab the laptop and take advantage of free wifi. We all head off to dinner... let me just say this, out of all the schools I spoke at, Williams College fed us the best. We had sushi and well there were other options like chinese and thai... but david and I cashed in on the sushi and in typical fashion ordered the same thing... which was a creation of our favorite roll at kyoto.
Really though - this was our last speaking engagement and I think it was our favorite. They had this clothsline project where the kids took white shirts and wrote messages on them about HIV/AIDS and had it strung along outside the building we were speaking at. I was a dork to the sound guy but what else is new. At this point I was pretty hoarse and sounding like a dude... it was beyond the sexy deep voice and just barry white creepy. Right after I said my peace too - I kid you not, my voice went out... I got it back a little for the Q&A, but it was pretty much shot.
Afterwards we went to their local hangout spot/pub where we partook in a bit of drinking... not too much... we also had hot wings and fries. It was really cool just hanging out and laughing and having a good time with everyone. Since I had the whole lost voice thing, I sounded more drunk than I was since really I wasn't drunk at all... (what's with the association of people without voices and drinking?) I gave the patient bartender (that reopened the kitchen for us) a hearty tip - and David of all people the guy that's all like "I can't stand bad tippers" was like "wow, that's like a bit more than 20%"...
Not that that had anything at all to do with the speaking thing, but I figured I'd throw it in for good measure and randomness :)
That concludes the Road to Hope 2006 Journal section... I hope you enjoyed the ride, please stay seated while the vehicle comes to a complete stop and exit on your right.
We got there quite a bit ahead of the RV so we chilled at the local coffee house (I know! Me and coffee... go figure!). We people watched and and chatted and just when we were going to go walk around, the rest of the group shows up - so I go grab the laptop and take advantage of free wifi. We all head off to dinner... let me just say this, out of all the schools I spoke at, Williams College fed us the best. We had sushi and well there were other options like chinese and thai... but david and I cashed in on the sushi and in typical fashion ordered the same thing... which was a creation of our favorite roll at kyoto.
Really though - this was our last speaking engagement and I think it was our favorite. They had this clothsline project where the kids took white shirts and wrote messages on them about HIV/AIDS and had it strung along outside the building we were speaking at. I was a dork to the sound guy but what else is new. At this point I was pretty hoarse and sounding like a dude... it was beyond the sexy deep voice and just barry white creepy. Right after I said my peace too - I kid you not, my voice went out... I got it back a little for the Q&A, but it was pretty much shot.
Afterwards we went to their local hangout spot/pub where we partook in a bit of drinking... not too much... we also had hot wings and fries. It was really cool just hanging out and laughing and having a good time with everyone. Since I had the whole lost voice thing, I sounded more drunk than I was since really I wasn't drunk at all... (what's with the association of people without voices and drinking?) I gave the patient bartender (that reopened the kitchen for us) a hearty tip - and David of all people the guy that's all like "I can't stand bad tippers" was like "wow, that's like a bit more than 20%"...
Not that that had anything at all to do with the speaking thing, but I figured I'd throw it in for good measure and randomness :)
That concludes the Road to Hope 2006 Journal section... I hope you enjoyed the ride, please stay seated while the vehicle comes to a complete stop and exit on your right.