FIJI

Boy oh boy.
So sorry family and friends for not posting in quite a while. I was in denial that I was soon going to be leaving my DTS family forever and I didn't want to talk about it.
I may get around to talking about it one day.
Probably not.
But now, I'm in Fiji! Sitting in an internet cafe, sweating away.
It is super hot here - there's no AC anywhere, but I don't mind it so much.
Let's start with getting here.
It was a very quick 3 hour flight, and met Pastor Jare at the airport (he's Dan's dad!). We drove to Pastor's house, where we unloaded and found our rooms. One example of incredible Fijian hospitality - their family gave up their rooms so we could sleep inside - they sleep on the porch. And then we ate - and ate - and ate. That's all we seem to do is eat eat eat. People always want to feed us more. They say "come come, eat more, come come." Sunday morning when we woke up, we had devos, worship, and then we had Bomacow (sp?). It's fried bread.
SOOOOO GOOD. I want to eat it for the rest of my freaking life.
I'm in love with this place - Jare's family is the sweetest and I am so excited to help him build his church. We're focusing on the youth for this trip - our team is going to be pulling kids off the street and running youth services on SUnday afternoons. We'll also be doing prison ministry, on Wednesday, we'll be ministering to overcrowded men's prisons - chatting, singing, doing one of my favourite skits "Ropes". Man, I can't wait to get started. Mondays are our days off - we'll use that time to rest and fellowship.
We sleep with the windows open, on mats on the floor - if there's a breeze, it's really nice, but our mosquito nets don't do the greatest job of keeping it breezy. I don't sleep with a blanket or sheet or anything, it's so toasty. Also, we bathe using buckets. They're called "bucket baths" - heehee. I don't use conditioner because it takes too much water, but my hair naturally starts conditioning itself, thank goodness. And the humidity's so intense that I don't even worry about how my hair looks. And now I'm so happy i chopped it all off, or else I would be absolutely miserable.
Man, there's so much I want to say, I know this is a pretty dry entry, but I'm running out of time! I'll get around to saying it all when I can!
Love you guys, be blessed!