New Faces and New Places

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you yet another emotion filled and action packed week, complete with a weekend getaway!  You’re not going to want to miss out on hearing about this once in a lifetime experience!  Details and other information listed below:

Standing and waiting, tapping my foot, holding my breath.  Each face that turns the corner makes my stomach flip, my heart speed, my breath catch.  But it’s a false alarm.  Waiting for my friends and siblings to come out of the airport was one of the longest waits in my life, but it was worth it!  To see their smiling weary faces, to be caught up in multiple bear hugs, to laugh at all of our inside jokes—I could not have been a happier person.  Apparently, I was visibly bubbling with happiness before they came, so much so that the whole house noticed :)  I just couldn’t help myself!  Finally they have a glimpse here of my life at Casa Adobe, the work that I do, the people that I live and hang out with, and the beautiful country I live in.  And yes, there was quite a bit of culture shock thrown into the mix, but we survived.  I then stole them and we went and hid for almost a week at the beach in Puerto Viejo.  What an amazing time just to sit and talk with them, face to face, hearing their voices in real life, not through small computer speakers.  I would have been content not to do anything and just be with them.  And we did, for the most part, due to infrequent torrential rains and a pretty difficult bout of sickness.  We managed to find the sun though and enjoy the beach, bike along it’s sandy shores, eat strange fruit, and meet new people.  But, through the good times and the bad, we had a great time together.   I wouldn’t take back a second of it.

Biking on the beach

 I also moved out this week—surprise!!  I am living in a small, two bedroom house that I share with Rachel, Guissell and (for now) sister Sarah.  It’s quite the change, let me tell you.  But it is refreshing to be able to have a place outside of Casa Adobe to retreat to, a place to just chill outside of the hustle and bustle of work.  And we are so blessed by the friendships we have here—we have way more furniture and things than we thought we’d ever have.  I’m still looking for a bed but the couch for now is working just fine.  And we are a bit short on any piece of storage-like furniture in the house so we are trying to be creative and collect as many pallets, cement blocks and pieces of wood as we can to build whatever we can to hold our clothes, shoes, and books.  Without money to spend, one needs to be a bit creative :)  

Baby Sage

And as I’m writing, we have a brand new member of the family wandering around the kitchen—a band new baby goat!  Lady had her baby Sage this past Saturday and what a relief that was.  We were all preparing for a difficult birth and (after many many horror stories of things gone wrong) we were all a bit terrified about what could happen.  But, before anyone even knew it, there suddenly was a new baby goat in the pen!  It was so natural us humans were never needed (nor wanted I’m sure).  What  and adorable blessing he is :)

Next week I’ll update you on how our soccer court project is going and how Sarah is doing but for now, I’m a bit tired and have to go eat some food.  God Bless and stay tuned!!