Comments on: Was it all a dream? http://uwpontour.com/2009/06/25/was-it-all-a-dream/ Join our cast of over 90 international members from 19 different countries as we embark on a 5-1/2 month journey around the world... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bellinda Myrick-Barnett http://uwpontour.com/2009/06/25/was-it-all-a-dream/#comment-136 Bellinda Myrick-Barnett Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:06:16 +0000 http://uwpontour.com/?p=1004#comment-136 Hi, Alex, I saw your post and just wanted to say that many years ago at the 'ripe old age' of 19, I joined Cast C of "UP WITH PEOPLE" in the year 1968. I was a college sophomore when I saw them performing in my hometown in West Texas. Immeditaely, I knew that I had to join them and I did and traveled with them for one year turning 20 years old in the country of Zaire/Congo, Africa where we were guests of then President Joseph Mobutu Sese Seku. My birthday cake was actually a pail of hard candies as it had been impossible for the kids to find a cake. There were hand made birthday cards which I still have and it was an amazing year from January to December. I met them in Florida and left a few weeks later for 4 months in Italy back to New York doing an NBC TV special with Bob Hope as our Master of Ceremonies. Little did I know that it would just be the first of many times that I would work with him over the years. We then had our month in Africa where we had gone for their Independence Day Celebrations and met world leaders from all over Africa. In Italy, we performed for President Aldo Moro and then we had four months across Canada before going into California where we performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a celebrity audience and we met and performed for then Governor & future President & First Lady Ronald & Nancy Reagan. There were so very many adventures that this little West Texas girl would have never had during that year nor later had I not gone for that year with "UP WITH PEOPLE." Over the years, I have been reunited with UWP friends that I made that year and today, amazingly, have been reunited with many of them in cyberspace as we have become friends on FACEBOOK and MY SPACE and other networking. It's lovely to see their faces again and remember special times we had together. Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey and get out there and go do more great things. Your having that experience in UWP gives you an insight into the world that many people never get so let it lead you and go make a difference in this world. May God always Bless you! Warmest Wishes, Bellinda Myrick-Barnett Texas, USA - UWP - Cast C - soloist - 1968 Hi, Alex,

I saw your post and just wanted to say that many years ago at the ‘ripe old age’ of 19, I joined Cast C of “UP WITH PEOPLE” in the year 1968. I was a college sophomore when I saw them performing in my hometown in West Texas. Immeditaely, I knew that I had to join them and I did and traveled with them for one year turning 20 years old in the country of Zaire/Congo, Africa where we were guests of then President Joseph Mobutu Sese Seku. My birthday cake was actually a pail of hard candies as it had been impossible for the kids to find a cake. There were hand made birthday cards which I still have and it was an amazing year from January to December. I met them in Florida and left a few weeks later for 4 months in Italy back to New York doing an NBC TV special with Bob Hope as our Master of Ceremonies. Little did I know that it would just be the first of many times that I would work with him over the years. We then had our month in Africa where we had gone for their Independence Day Celebrations and met world leaders from all over Africa. In Italy, we performed for President Aldo Moro and then we had four months across Canada before going into California where we performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a celebrity audience and we met and performed for then Governor & future President & First Lady Ronald & Nancy Reagan. There were so very many adventures that this little West Texas girl would have never had during that year nor later had I not gone for that year with “UP WITH PEOPLE.” Over the years, I have been reunited with UWP friends that I made that year and today, amazingly, have been reunited with many of them in cyberspace as we have become friends on FACEBOOK and MY SPACE and other networking. It’s lovely to see their faces again and remember special times we had together.

Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey and get out there and go do more great things. Your having that experience in UWP gives you an insight into the world that many people never get so let it lead you and go make a difference in this world. May God always Bless you!

Warmest Wishes,

Bellinda Myrick-Barnett
Texas, USA – UWP – Cast C – soloist – 1968

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