On Saturday morning we woke up literally at the crack of dawn, ate some breaky and were on our way to Fiji. We had a lovely 2 hour drive to the airport in Aukland. Jacob had quite a nice nap on Van's shoulder. It was cute. I, on the other hand, was very uncomfortable in the middle seat of the front bench in the crapola van and there was a metal bar under my right but cheek so I was tilted to the left and every bump we hit hurt a lot. I didn't get to nap in the van, which was my plan after very minimal sleep the night before.
Friday night the Asia team was leaving at 1 AM from the base, so a bunch of us stayed up to see them off. We hung out in the GAP and ate lots of junk food. Schnegg had bought some pink and white marshmallows that were gluten free, so that was pretty exciting. At one point, I was laying on the couch and Marit was sitting on my legs, Noemi on my hip area, and Kiwi Hannah on my chest. I was fine until Hannah came. Then I could no longer breath. And that is one of my last memories of Hannah :( It was so sad to say goodbye to my fellow blond in the back. I will miss her muchly!
At 5:30AM the Fiji teams were departing, so India came to say goodbye. I was so sad to say goodbye to Marit and Schnegg!!! I will miss them so much!!!
At the airport I had two soy lattes just incase I won't be able to have another one until I return to New Zealand at the end of December. The flight was short. Only 3 hours. I watched Parks and Recreation (Yeahhhh Matt!) and I watched 30 Rock and Community. It was so wonderful to finally watch TV again. I wish that our flight was longer so that I could watch more TV!!!!
Fiji is really nice. I was dreading the heat because I thought that it would be like Belize. In belize it was about 40 degrees with 100 percent humidity every day and over night it would cool down to 30. I was constantly drenched in my own sweat to the point that I always looked like I had just showered. I thought Fiji would be like that, but it's not! It is only 30 ish in the day with 100 percent humidity. So I only am drenched in sweat when I move. It is quite nice. I just need to sit still for the rest of my time here.
We are staying with Pastor Jare and his family, which is Dan from my DTS's family. They are hilariously awesome. Dan has two sisters and a little bro. And each one of his siblings is just like Dan, but in different ways. His little brother is literally a mini Dan with a LOT more energy. The family is so nice and welcoming and we have been constantly fed since we got here. Now I know why teams usually gain 20 pounds while they are here! Van and I are going to have a competition to see who can get fatter. I think I will win, mostly because I am a girl.
Auntie makes really good bomacow, which is basically fried bread dough. I ate some even though I am not supposed to. It was so worth it. (I say that now, but I won't be saying that when I am out with a migraine for a few days). Van is going to beat the current record of bomacows eaten in one sitting. The record is 21 which is outrageous. Because they are pretty big, like maybe the size of two longjohn donuts.
Yesterday morning we went to church. There was air conditioning. Glorious. It was a really awesome service. Pastor Jare is really cool. He just got a new building for the church, so our job for the next week will be fixing it up, and then church will be there on Sunday! It's really exciting. We went to see the building yesterday afternoon and had a little worship sesh. It was really cool and I got to be one of the first people prayed for there! Awe yeah!
After that... you guessed it!!! Foood! We sat outside and ate with a bunch of people from the church. We sat on a bamboo mat and had the most epic jam session ever. We sang worship songs, and improv songs and raps. It was good. The best song/rap was about bomacow. The words were: Bomacow, bomacow, bomacow, bom bomacow. etc.
Here, a bathroom is not the place with the toilet in it, but the place where you bathe/wash yourself. The toilet place is called a toilet. Go figure. I had to learn how to use the bathroom. There is a big bucket filled with water in a small room. And you use a smaller bucket to dump water over yourself. And you just let the water land on the floor. It's pretty awesome. I have showered twice so far. But Dave has not. He smells. Yuck. I am sitting beside him now. I think I might pass out.
We have mosquito nets to sleep in, although I am not sure why. There are hardly any bugs at all. But the nets make our beds look like princess beds. I have a baby pink one. Aweeee.
There has been a bit of a change of plans for what we will be doing here. We thought that we would be doing a lot of door knocking and street evangelism, which I was not excited for. But it turns out we will be doing new things! Pastor wants us to really focus on the youth and on rejuvinating the Church throught the youth. So that will be fun. Tomorrow we get to go to a prison. A men's prison. And talk to them about Jesus, maybe do some testimonies and a skit. Should be pretty intense! I am excited for that.
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