today is a beautiful day. after a week of clouds (which I secretly enjoyed, less heat, more rain) the sun is shining bright. its hard to describe but I am really starting to feel at home here. dont get me wrong, i miss a different person each day but its getting easier, more familiar. i have fallen in love with every child at Greta, the kitchen ladies, and mangos for breakfast every morning. i love listening to the waves crash at night, driving through the hectic market on the way to work, playing with sweet sweet babies, coming home covered in glue and exhausted each day to a meal and coffee with some really great people.
today a group of us left base and went to a pizza place in town. it was so good, and by that i mean it tasted familiar, like pizza. it was called Graditas or something like that, i dont know. we were the only ones in there plus the one guy working. it took over an hour for 3 pizzas lol. but they were worth it.
(there we are, eating pizza. thats me in the pink.)
Across from the pizza place was the main town vodoo temple. It was very big- looked like a building I would see in downtown Charlotte or something. It never stops being weird to see those. I pass 5 on the way to work each day and every day I just pray. Vodoo affects everyone here, even believers. It is crazy to me how it has been incorporated into most churches here, pastors who believe in it, people who go to church and then come home to perform a vodoo ceremony. This is why I say the church here needs prayer. But anyways, just so you get an idea of what we are around. I am not afraid, I know He is greater in me but its still weird and sad.
Change of subject- I moved into my hut last weekend! Its great! Here is what it looks like from the outside
The colors are my favorite. I love teal. and yellow. maybe not this yellow...but still. Its wonderfully tacky. The screen door should be getting put up sometime this week, hopefully.
You should see my view. I will take a picture tomorrow.
The government decided on Thursday that we would be officially observing daylight savings time so i will be staying in the same time zone with everyone. yay for losing an hour of sleep.
With that said, I am going to bed!
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