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Nottingham Via London - by Alex
Right outside London's airport, standing under the rain and waiting for the tour bus to pick everybody up…
I'm thinking about the last couple of years… the problems we had… the hard times… the let downs and all the doubts we had… I'm looking at the past as an old window covered with dust and stains… rusted hinges and closed locks… covering the outside world with hopeless visions and faithless dreams… I'm looking at everybody's face… all lighted with graceful excitements and showered with thankful humility… just as we were all, at the same moment, realizing how blessed we were, not to be on the road, but to be alive… and I felt like rain was there only to daub little circles of light around our wounded memories… healing halos or God's whispers… I turned to Jeff… smiled and looked around like it was the very first day of my life… yeah… London is beautiful… born with hope, built on mercy, fed with sacrifice and sleeping with doubts… we may walk on historical rocks… but it looks like it's everybody's story… baptized by water and raised by flames… kings and queens… but all crowned with sorrows somehow… I can't wait for our first night in Nottingham… cause I know that every single family member we'll meet on this tour is a candle light in our morning shadows… and we're all in the tour bus… ending our first day away from home… half-asleep yet daydreaming… and if forgiveness wasn't a fish you can catch… guess I would say I never felt that good since I first experienced freedom in Japan a few weeks ago… - Alex
Caught Dreaming
We just arrived in Nottingham… almost everybody is sleeping except me and Alex, who's quietly writing… he looks so peaceful and reverent… it's not always easy to know what he's feeling, but tonight… it's almost like I was able to read his soul… and it's beautiful… as the rest of the crew… all sleeping and resting… after months of work and sacrifices… we're not on tour… we're on the verge of being transformed by other people's hands… family members we laughed and cried with… virtual never felt so real to me… I never looked at my MySpace friends as little random squares leading to private hideouts… so I just can't wait to meet the family and finally be able to touch what was only a dream to me less than a year ago… if Sef was awake he would laugh at my "cry in the face"… but some feelings don't have to be kept inside… my youth was nothing but sleepless hideouts as Alex wrote it in "Open Your Eyes"… guess redemption is about laying down in the lights… I'm feeling pretty tired, yet I'm feeling pretty good… - Jeff