Lady Fruitloop

PROFILE

Barbara Brewster our founder and Life Member was born in California and embodies a wealth
of experience with challenge and change. As a young woman she studied gymnastics in
Denmark, majored in Russian, was a hostess in a restaurant in Afghanistan and hitch-hiked
across continents. She became a clown and toured Russian hospitals and orphanages with
clown/MD Patch Adams, immigrated to Australia and is now an Australian citizen

On her web site Barbara describes her trip to Russia:

"The airport was crowded, appropriately my debut day as a clown. I had expected
discomfort, moving as a solitary clown through Portland Airport and flying on the shuttle to
Seattle. Instead, I delighted in being the cause of smiles spreading across stranger's faces.
Children waved, relieved, I gaily waved back. Joining five more clowns in Seattle made it
even easier and more fun. On the plane the crew and passengers all asked questions and
were captivated by our story. Ten hours later in Copenhagen Airport we tripped into the
waiting area and immediately spotted the twenty members of our group who had already
arrived from New York. Patch Adams, our leader, stood out. An imposing man, taller than
everyone, with a long grey ponytail he wore bright paisley pantaloons hitched up to his
thighs, revealing spindly hairy legs rising from mismatched socks and huge clown feet. With
much Hubbub we rose, a multicoloured wave, and surged along airport corridors pushing
baggage carts, blowing kazoos, bobbing balloons, honking horns, dancing, waving, hugging
children and mimicking the gaits of other travellers hurrying beside us. Would I ever again
be content to walk through an airport as an ordinary person? On arrival in Moscow, 25 clowns
from 4 countries spilled into Sheremyetovo Airport's corridor."

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