goodbye to you, goodbye to you...

seriously, this will have been more than a week long goodbye by the time we get outa here...
i'm not good at goodbye's. in fact the more short and sweet, the better. no long akward pauses, no thoughts like, "i may never see these people again..." i've just never been a fan of lingering over goodbye. i guess it's difficult here in indonesia because we've met soooo many people from all over the city. everyone wants to take you out to goodbye dinner or to a goodbye movie, maybe goodbye coffee ...one guy is even coming to help us out with friday goodbye house cleanup(voluntarily, so that he can clean out our refrigerator...what a boy.) fun fun. when everyone is tearing up *sniff sniff* and sharing akwardly long embraces, that's a convenient time for me to go to the bathroom or maybe wash my hair. i'm not sure why i'm complaining. next week will be worse. i've spent a year with 12 other girls with hardly any privacy. in fact since leaving perth we haven't even been able to go out alone...everything's been in pairs or threes or 13's. in a week i get to start saying goodbye to them. i'm not an emotional fareweller. it's not that i don't care, life just goes on. anyways, i guess it's been a while since i posted anything and this is the best thing i could come up with. haha. anyways, i have to go and clean up...a couple of my lovely indonesian friends are coming for goodbye time. or maybe i'll just call it "see you later" time. i like see you later, it's less dramatic...bla. bla.

Minguu-Sunday

Today was beautiful...i think Sunday is my favorite day of the week.

fellowship...singing...laughter...people...

i really love people.

over the past 10 months i have met so many beautiful people. they have come in many different shapes and sizes and colors, but all beautiful. a variety of traditions, ways of doing things, eating habits, languages, beliefs...

last night my leader came and said that we were expected to share a message at the church we were visiting this morning. our contact had called 5 minutes earlier. i said i could...

church was so beautiful this morning...it was alive, and vibrant, and passionate. i ended up speaking at a youth service, which was a fun opportunity. they're really in love with Jesus...

afterwards they escorted us to a little office where KFC chicken sandwhiches, coke, and fun little indonesian desserts awaited us. beautiful hospitality.

immediately after we finished at church we went into our own backyard neighborhood and finished the last day of a 3 day mother and child healthcare seminar. i love the 3rd day. today the women took what they learned to the streets. they chose people they wanted to visit and taught them something they learned over the past couple of days. they took us to see a woman with a newborn, and like pros they taught on breastfeeding and cord care. they visited other moms teaching them about good nutrition and dehydration and fever care...it was alot of fun.

later we stayed to pray for the family that let us meet in their home. they're a christian family living in what they call a "fanatical muslim" neighborhood. their house is actually a 2 minute walk away from where we live. mrs. lani especially is really lovely...she made us feel right at home and made loads of fried indonesian snacks for all of us each day. then after all of the women would leave she would bring out more plates with more special snacks. she doesn't speak a word of english, but her actions spoke love and hospitality and welcome...

we've also had some of the most amazing translators...they give us their free days to come out with us and translate. beautiful selflessness.

hopefully in the next couple days i can share about what i spoke about in church this morning...

free socks

last night we went bowling. we got free socks!! reedok socks. i bowled a whoppin' 74 folks. not great, not too shabby...

random Sunday

seriously, my life is so random. today we went to a wedding. we didn't know the bride or the groom. never met them. someone invited us yesterday and said it would be nice if we came...congrats to dewi and rocky. aren't they beautiful!? we got a free meal out of it and a taste of indo culture as well. they even wanted a pic with all of us. cheese. we posed smiling and melting...it must have been 143 degrees or close. maybe not. all that body heat and humidity was a real downer though. we've almost given up on fixing our hair and makeup before going out...anyways i took some uninteresting pictures to keep myself mildly entertained...this lady took off her glasses and posed for me. sweetheart. i wanted a picture of her eating her avacado ice cream, but she opted for serious rather than silly.

so rachel and i had a contest to see who could pull off the biggest pair of sunglasses. are big sunglasses still in? how would i know. i've been searching for a girly magazine all over that's not in indonesian. i finally found an In Style magazing thursday. i tore through it checking out the latest ridiculous things people are wearing. after a couple "that's so last year" thoughts i checked out the date. June 2007. nice. oh well, don't judge me if i come home still sporting tights under a baby doll dress, huge shades, and a shaggy fringe.

random post for a random day...

i'm such a mystery

here are the answers:

1. right after i turned 18 (senior year) vanilla ice did a show at graham's...me and 2 of my friends had to go. i can still remember jamming out to vanilla ice on the playground when we were in 3rd grade...i won't say it was cool, because....well, it wasn't.
2. usa, mexico, australia, singapore, thailand, dubai, india, sudan, uganda, indonesia.
3. duh
4. during my 3 months in india i did catch 28 beautiful, slimy, screaming babies...we were working in a government maternity hospital that saw 50-70 delieveries a day, so needless to say there were enough deliveries to go around!
5. can't do it
6. i shot my first deer when i was in the 5th grade, so that would put me at 11. my papa miller used to come and pick me up from school at fairview and we'd drive out to the ranch for an evening of hunting...

there you go.