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Thursday December 24th – Christmas with the homeless

On rainy days or during the weekends and holidays when the normal crowded streets are empty, it is really sad and eire to look up and down the sidewalks and see the homeless moving about like phantoms, trying to survive. We met whole families living under the freeway bridges. Some people have complete “houses” set up under the freeways including pictures put up on the cement and a tv they saved from their house. Because of severe flooding, many were driven out of their homes and just took what they could before they lost it all. I don’t know if…

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Tuesday December 22nd – Christmas in the Largest Prison

We performed an event for Christmas inside a prison, for the children of the prisoners. It’s heart breaking to see their sadness as they come out from visiting their fathers or brothers and it was a privilege to bring them an escape and a little hope and laughter. We were able to give the kids little gift bags and toys. I gave this one boy a chess board and he was so grateful  treating it like I gave I’m the keys to a car. He said he would play with his dad when he came to visit him in prison, and…

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Wednesday December 16th – Flying Out

And so the adventure begins! Besides all the items formally mentioned, we also had our personal belongings, musical equipment and other supplies we need. So needless to say, we had a lot of heavy, awkward boxes to get from point A (the US),  in and out of rental cars and motels, through the airport, on and off three connecting flights, to arrive at point B (Porto Alegre Brazil). By the time we landed at 2:00 am in Brazil, we were dead tired and crashed in a small cheep motel until morning (bringing all of our lovely boxes in and out of…

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