The Beach & The Breeze

I typed this blog while I was still in Moz... it should have posted between "The Market" and "Just say not to bugs" not sure why it didn't post, but enjoy. More blogs to come soon!

Julie and Adriano left today. Everyone went to the airport to see them off. We packed as many people in the truck as we could and then the rest of them made the 10 minute walk to the airport. Now it’s just me and the boys, I’m the only female sleeping in the house. It will be good though, because I will be able to get to know Michael better and see what he does here and I will have more time with the boys.

After the airport I walked to the beach with Ernesto, Joao and Mack. It was probably a 30 minute walk, but it’s nice to get out. I was also really excited because when I was cleaning out the garage I found a Frisbee, so I brought that along. As we walked the beach we saw a few of our kids running around and eventually we came across Nunu and Santos sitting talking, so we joined them. We eventually got up to play Frisbee and it made my day! The funniest thing was that Nunu was near the water and there were big piles of dried seaweed, so depending on the throw he would have to jump up on one. I threw it to him and I thought he tripped, but everyone was laughing so hard. Well I finally realized that he split his pants and then I could barely throw the Frisbee I was laughing so hard.

I think I like walking so much here because there is always a good conversation, with Joao and Ernesto other days and with Nunu today. Every day that we are out I see two guys holding hands, so I asked him about that. I guess it is a cultural thing and the norm to walk down the street holding your friends hand. Not that I wondered if there were homosexuals in Africa, I just wondered more about them being Muslims or if they were ostersized from the community. He just said yeah there are homosexuals and you see them more at night. I also found out from him that a lot of Muslims in Pemba still have arranged marriages.

The power had been off all day probably about 12 hours by now. When we go to the house I was praying that we would have power, but we didn’t. I was now hot, sticky and sweaty from the walk back from the beach. I was trying to work myself into taking a bucket shower, when poof the lights came on and at the same time the most amazing heavenly breeze started blowing. Even though I wasn’t praying for those things I really feel like God has been using the strangest things to communicate with me here. This time it was with the most beautiful cool breeze on a hot day and the restoration of power.

The other night I was talking movies with the guys and they were telling me about this movie that they like about all these famous painters… the movie may have been called Magliano. So we watched that together. It was good, not the best movie I’ve ever seen. It just makes me mad that I forgot to bring some movies with me. I guess there is always next time =) 

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Thanks as always for your prayers!

Amanda