"Lock it"

So the day WAS supposed to start at 7:30am, but instead it started at 4:45am. I know...REALLY early. Well the 4:45am wake-up call was from two random strangers in the church telling us that there was going to be a movie filmed in the room we were sleeping in and so therefore we had to move. Well thank goodness Ashley was awake and a bit alert to take care of things. Basically, the random strangers kept insisting that we move at 4:45am to another room, and only because all of us were completely out of it, did we move to the new room. The whole situation was extremely strange and a bit creepy in the moment. Basically, one of the strangers, named Harjit (or his Christian name Nathaniel) told us that we could stay in his room. We thought he was one of the workers, but later did we find that he was a guest just like us. It was quite strange. He kept trying to make small talk about meditating at 4am and where we were from, and honestly all of us just wanted to sleep. The creepiest part was when he decided to sleep in the same room as most of us and he pretty much commanded Sam to close the door. His final statement was "LOCK IT". I think everyone either peed in their pants, prayed, clutched to their cell phone, or just didn't sleep. It was the most bizarre sitatuation. Looking back on the situation, everyone just laughed and joked about the entire thing, but we were a bit concerned as to who this man was. We did end up finding that he was an innocent guest but maybe he was just a bit naive to social etiquette?? Who knows. Anyways, he invited us to meditate with him on Wednesday morning so we are thinking of taking him up on the offer. What a crazy morning. And that's just the beginning.

It's 1:20am right now and I am super super super exhausted. But i will give you a quick list of what we did and explain more tomorrow:

-Taking the Subway to God's Love

-First day at God's Love
-Working in the kitchen (cutting onions--> crying in the process due to the harshness of the onions, packaging)
-Lexie cutting herself with a knife--> Holly and Lexie take a trip to the downtown New York Hospital
-Dayani, Sam, Adriana, Sarah, and Ashley make small talk with the workers and find out ALL ABOUT NY city--> "if dayani wants to live in New York, she should find a rich man to marry"-man from NY
-Dayani, Sarah, Adriana-went to canal street and bargained for perfumes. Someone told me I wasn't Sri Lankan
-Entire group goes to Ground Zero
-Staten Island Ferry ride (for FREE)
-Adriana and Sarah get a caricature drawing made for them while the rest of the group eat pretzels and chill in Battery Park
-Group takes a trip to Chinatown to eat vietnamese food---yummy
-WE end at Times Square
-Entire group has a LONG reflection on what our passions are and also what the death of Osama Bin Laden means to us and what are our thoughts
-Sarah and Dayani go on a run and see people still out and about past midnight
-Everyone takes showers and falls asleep easily
=)

I will elaborate when I have more time =)

Tomorrow: delivering the food we made!!! ahhhh.

XOXO
Dayani and GLWD