hearts

The past few days here have been amazing. I can't even begin to try to remember it all, and even if I could what I write here wouldn't do it justice.
My friend Heather finally arrived - I don't remember if I mentioned that or not yet.. so it's been so great spending time with her. I've gotten to play lots of music in the past few days. My friend Rosa and I spent some time up in one of the gazibos the other night and she taught me some portuguese songs, and we worshiped and talked. It was so great. Last night we had a (brace yourself....!! haha) techno dance party!!! bahahahaha!! up in one of the gazibos, one of the long term missionaries here organized this worship/rave/amazing dance party thing that was fricking amazing!! hahaha. God was sooooo tangible during the mellower worshipy times, and then it was just SO much fun dancing and jumping around toghether. haha. I loved it. that's something I've wanted to organize at home for a long time, so it gave me the extra excitement I need to hopefully do something about it this time when I get back. hehe.
This morning I think I realized that I just have less than a week left here in Pemba, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. I'm excited to go home - I miss it (weird!) - but the past couple days have been so amazing. I finally am getting into the rhythm of life here, building some amazing friendships with people from the last time I was here, spending time with old friends, and meeting some great new people. As usual, it's going to be pretty bitter/sweet when I have to leave here.
but! now it's time for church, so I gotta get going!! yay carnival style piano and crazy dancing! hehehe. then the church team is headed to this crazy beautiful beach about 20 minutes from here. *ahhhh, the hard life of a mssionary* hehe.
tcheu!