Good afternoon, friends:

I apologize for the lack of updates lately. When I get back to my host family's house, it's all I can do to stay awake during dinner. I will also apologize in advance, especially because these next few weeks are going to be incredibly busy, preparing the cast for ouf first international travel day: a 17 hour flight to Taiwan! So, bear with me!

These past few weeks have been incredible. Last week, the cast was on Cape Cod. What a beautiful place! We performed in a venue that seated 1400 people, and each night was sold out! Awesome, isn't it? While on the cape, we did a variety of community service projects. The cast helped clean and tidy the local YMCA, helped with maintenance for a local farming group, and visited elderly people. The best part of the cape was not the community service work. The best part was whale watching! On one of our host family days, a group of us spent the day in Provincetown and enjoyed part of the morning and afternoon watching Humpback whales splash around off the coast of Cape Cod. It was a wonderful experience! I am so grateful to have had that awesome bonding time with some of the cast members as well!

This week, we've been in Newburyport, Massachusetts. It's a beautiful, small colonial town, about the size of Durango. The first day of community service, I was in a group that worked at a church building a natural play ground for preschoolers with special needs. We made a sand box surrounded by large rocks, we built a teepee from vines and sticks and various other things. We made a wheel type thing in the ground and a small art studio to display the artwork they create. It was such a pleasure to see the joy on the supervisors face. She said it would have taken them months to accomplish what we accomplished in one day! I felt so honored. She also attended the show and said she had never seen something so powerful. It was a great week for the cast. I am so proud of the effort we all put in, and it's incredible to see what we got out of it.

These next weeks will be insane. We are doing anti-bullying workshops every day next week, along with 5 shows! Once again, I'm sorry for the lack of posts.

Hope everyone is enjoying the last few days of summer!

Love and hugs,

Bonnie