3 hours into my flight, 9 am Korea time Sunday Morning, 702 pm Detroit Time Sat Night. my flight arrives at 630 pm korea time.
Praise be to God the father, who delivers us to bring us to his glory. Praise Him. At 900 last night I was at the end of a 52 dollar taxi ride after completing my first interview with EMW chair of the board Dr. Peter Singer. The thoughts of the origination of EMW came out in an interview that was 1.07 hours long.
3 hours into the flight and I am trying to study and write, but Enchanted is being played on the HUGE screen infront of me. And I can't help but watch.
Eyes back on the computer, siting in 42 H I just ate a good steak with some shrimp. the shrimp was in a pasta that had pesto pasta, there was also a lemon cake, that nobody should write home about.
At 730 this morning I woke up in the home of peter and his wife as they had put me up in their home the night before I left for Vietnam. We talked about acts 4:13 and also how to test every thought with the will of Christ. Peter and I talked as his wife interjected, trying to sell a water system to me from Japan. It was good water but not good enough. I have been preparing for this trip for the past two weeks and my brain is about to explode. After coming home from the Platypus workshop in Houston, I finished my China doc, and had to get the most important part of the jib to me as I left it in houston. I received that, the lighting system, the wide angle lens, the tv monitor, the dv tapes and the ideas from God. I am still unaware how he will work in this movie, meaning having the transitions between the projects, at 10 am this morning before my 12pm flight, i still did not have my jib tripod, and I only wanted to bring one tripod over to vietnam.
There is not much to say to a korean man who sits next to you who only starts conversations, but does not respond to them. Hmm a disney movie, for some reason I want to marry a princess now. A struched seat, a pillow, and 9 hours left on the plane, 2 hours left on my cpu.
Peter really helped me last night. God I think was telling me to go to his house, as my friend Robert could not house me because he was in colorado. There was not enough time in the my thoughts before coming to California to complete my schedule for the three days in california before my trip to vietnam.
Jesus take my life, take all of me, my everything. . .
So I was traveling in a taxi after the interview at the doctors house, not knowing where I was going to stay Friday night, leaving it for the Lord's will to collide with my current location. I left it up to the last minute that is for sure. Robert was taking time to look for a place besides his for me to stay as I was driving closer and closer to his house on Cherokee and Hollywood.
My taxi cab driver after the EMW interview in LA was a Ukranian a doctor. For the entrire time I recorded what I could on the message machine of my Iphone. That was fun. He made 80 dollars a month over there as a doctor and won a raffle to move to the USA with his family.
I belong in humility as I was born here in the states and in the states I belong not as a lucky person, but as alien to this country, here to live not like an american, but as a follower of Christ. Jesus please use me for this movie . I wonder if I am going to be good enough for the equipment I own.
So I was dropped off at the Hollywood Hotel with the idea I would stop and wait for 30 minutes for Robert's friend to call and see if he could have me there. I felt rushed so Idid not wait and I checked in for 119 a night. 20 minutes later he called and said he was on his way. now I could not get back my allowance from the hotel so I was out that money, but God laid it on my heart to take Robert's friends' offer. I said yes, becuase I did not want to be rude and I wanted to see what Christ had for me. He picked me up as I checkout out of my hotel. Learning a lesson that I was not supposed to act quickly upon my own instincts of being tired, but to wait for His provision.
I am feeling a bit sick, so I think I waill sleep now.
952pm Detroit time Sat. 1152 am Korean time. Sunday.
I am in the middle of the Bering Sea ,I am half way to Russia. When flying, there is not much to do, when you have 12 hours on a flight, The couple next to me, sit, and talk, Korean, Jeff Corwen talks about Alaska, as I fly over it. The Korean children next to me that share the isle, build legos intently. In case you were wondering, sea lions have big flippers, Seals have small. After having two movies that I would not have otherwise seen in my lifetime, the 5 hours of flying has gotten to me so I get up to go the red cheaply flowered airplane bathroom. I get up and wait and all the passengers in my area below 5 feet 5 inches watch me get to the waiting area. Then it is up to the age old skill of bathroom math. Two lines, 4 asians, 4 bathrooms, and me, I am taller than them, but younger. A stall becomes vacant and I open the door. Suddenly, like a rouge wave, I get pushed, and look down to see grandmother Asia look up at me as she scoffs and walks into my bathroom. And I wait some more.
Jeff Corwin likes the social behaviors of the lupus. The secret is staying quiet and staying low when walking towards wolves.
I every so often my neighbors crack the window to look at Russia. The lights are off and my eyes break in two as the piercing daylight from outside almost seems to push the window open. two rows up and over to my left, the koreans are watching soap operahs. A man and his small baby in pink walk up and down the aisle more than everyone else. She is wearing pink.
My eyes are tired. I watch everything to study if it would relate to my shooting style as I prepare to shoot in Vietnam. I don't know what to do in many of the circumstances that I will be in. My plans have changed as my time in hcmc is now a few days instead of two. i feel like this movie is going to be really good, but I am a bit over whelemed as I have a lot of footage to capture and also a lot of pieces to fit together, this is truely the time where the entirety of my visual knowledge will be used in 5 weeks.
Praise God.
