Big virtual hugs to all friends and family of Seasia 2014!! After a three hour magical ceremony last night full of blindfold whisperings of appreciation, candle light and insane amounts of love, the group spent the morning perfecting and recording our very own original song about the trip (lyrics below):
Today we celebrated the amazing Miss B’s birthday and sent the students off into the cool Vietnam eve. Everyone is safe and well on their journey and we MISS THEM ALREADY!!!!!! We will post more goodies in the next couple days (hint hint: guided semester reflections), but for now, we hope all the students are well in to their 4th movie on the plane, have long devoured their pack of oreos, and are soon peacefully sleeping as they cross the bizarre time portal across the date line into the past (but Brook gets TWO birthdays, how cool?!)
Peace and Love!!!
Julia and Topher
Towards Another Home
By Seasia Students Spring 2014
(last verse borrowed from Lord Huron)
Orange blazing lanterns
released from our hands
Winged light fades into the night
Saffron robes, folded palms
Barefoot dawn rounds of alms
Blessings bound wrists warm goodbyes
Fragile bodies, laughing eyes children born asking why
rising hope from the depths of the dark
Ancient stone cities lost
crawlin roots, hungry moss
wooden homes over stilts under stars
CHORUS
Lifting up our packs
Together on our own
Leaving heavy footprints on this memory paved Road
Green Rivers, blue mountains, rusty trucks and wooden boats
Once again we find ourselves
Once again we find ourselves
Moving towards another home
Ba da ba, ba da ba…
Green fields growing rice
River Highways hold life
Peaceful paths in haunted hills
Bright silver dark skin
wrinkled black toothy grins
Wet labyrinth streets overfill
Who knows where will go
what new bonds we will grow
how many goodbyes we will say
but what good is living
the life you’ve been given
If all you do is stay in one place
CHORUS x 2