Watch the Walk

After four months on Clove Island, I left my 10 mile radius and went on vacation to another island. This other island had things like electricity 24/7, air conditioning (yay, sleep!), and clean beaches, along with a smattering of good shopping (can we all say "Oreos!" together?). It was a wonderful few days of relaxation, good sleep, swimming, and sight seeing. It was a lot of fun, and quite relaxing in general. Having fun We took a boat back to Clove Island today, which was a beautiful ride and very peaceful. We played some card games, read books, and just relaxed. Then we arrived back at "our" island. Immigration was no biggie: the official came on board and stamped passports as we exited the boat. I was the first one from our group to exit the boat. Upon reaching the landward end of the gangplank, I asked the official at the bottom where we could pick up luggage. "Tomorrow" he said. "No, I need it today. Where do I get it?" "Tomorrow. Cus...

I feel like life has been pretty normal lately. And by normal I mean that the toilet works, the miracle mold on my ceiling isn't growing right now, and I'm going about my daily routines of language time, time with the Father, time with the neighbors, visiting friends, and time with the team. Oh, and time spent in housekeeping. A friend and I, ready to head to a ladies' event. Then again maybe it isn't so normal. My language helpers have been unavailable for various reasons, which means I've gone to a bit more work to do the intentional learning time of my language acquisition. We've had very little rain during this part of the rainy season, meaning that collecting water is more of a chore (or we have to buy it, yikes). And the power situation on the island is still pretty frustrating. Oh, I haven't mentioned the power situation? Well in short we've had very little power since the beginning of February. Before that, we could count on power being on most o...