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So, I feel a little bit like life is getting away from me. Mostly because I am leaving for Guam tomorrow morning and have not packed at all! And I need to do my laundry! And clean my house! In a classic procrastination maneuver, I am now blogging instead. Which I was wanting to do, too, so at least I can tick that off of my list.

Guam! I'm excited. Still kind of unsure as to what awaits me, but that's cool. The outreach team leader of the team that's going at the same time as me was asking me this morning if I'd heard from the base leader there about if they are picking us up, or what. I was like, no, haven't you? No, she had not. But I figure, it's not that big of an island. What's the worst that could happen?

In other news, Christmas was great. We had a lot of fun and a LOT of food. On Christmas Eve one of the local families that we are friends with invited the whole school over and we spent the evening with them. Grant, the dad of the family, took us all on a hay ride through his farm, which was pretty much the most fun thing we could have done. There's something about stuff like that-- it's just pure fun. We were powering up and down the hills and sheep were scattering everywhere around us, and the sunset was this brilliant pinky orange and we sang off-tune Christmas Carols and then headed back to the house for hot apple cider. It was a really good night.

Christmas Day was also good--someone gave us a pig, and so we had to figure out what to actually do with said pig, which was kind of funny. Laura, one of my staff, was the hero--she arranged to have another farmer up the road come cut it up for us and then roasted it. It came out beautifully, and then the two of us just stared at it and wondered what to do next. In the end we put on gloves and just pulled the meat off of the bones. It was delicious. The whole day I felt like the mother of 15 adults, which was slightly disconcerting. At the same time I felt like a kid faking that I was a grown-up. I wonder if you ever grow out of that? Maybe you just get so used to faking it that eventually you start to actually believe that you know what you're doing. Hmm.

Anyway, I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas and that you have an amazing New Year! Hopefully I will be writing safe and sound and with a perfectly packed bag of luggage from Guam soon!

The Prodigal Blogger Returns

So, a couple of days ago, I was on my computer quickly checking my email, and my Norton anti-virus was quite alarmed by something, so I clicked the "fix" button that popped up with the warning (I'm so high-tech!). Norton responded with this message: "Please wait. Norton will now fix your problems." Oh Norton. Sometimes you are so naive.

Anyway, my problems are really not so major, anyway. A short update: the DTS is going really well. Exceptionally well, even. I have loved pretty much every minute I've had with these students; they are sweet and hilarious and smart and tenacious and ready for anything. Probably the hardest thing is that I just like them so much that I don't take enough time to just be by myself. One of those problems that I'm pretty blessed to have.

In other news, I am going to Guam in two weeks! The DTS that I was supposed to lead has been postponed, but I have a ticket, so I'm going anyway. We have an outreach team from the DTS going at the same time, and I'll help out a bit, but I want to let the team leader have a chance to lead, so I will try to find my own things to do, also. I'm actually kind of excited at the adventures that are awaiting me! Like my dad said, God can redeem our changed plans (or something along those lines), and I'm pretty sure something awesome is in store. I'm excited to check out Guam and find ways to serve the people there and the YWAM base.

Anyway, I'm going to cut this short, because this is my first afternoon off in like a month and I'm having penguin- shaped waffles with Becks, my house-mate! Over and out.