How do you summarize 2 months of adventure, experience, learning, laughter etc etc etc?
Well you can write a massive thesis but I am much to lazy (or some would say "sensible"- although after recent events most people probably wouldn't refer to me as sensible…) to do something like that, I'm going to settle for this brief (yet probably super profound) paragraph. Because in all seriousness I don't quite yet know what I have all taken away from this and probably won't for sometime. God tends to reveal things in small bits.
Out of all the things that I will miss about this place; palm trees, eating sweet fruit (I actually like banana's here!), daily iced coffees, beautiful hot sunny weather, riding in the back of trucks on the highway and it being totally acceptable and legal and fun, speaking English with a few pijin words and phrases thrown in with a terrible attempt at a Malaysian accent, "Solomon time"… and the things that I'm not exactly going to miss; like-to-ruin-all-my-good-food-stupid ants, creepy cockroaches, malaria infested mosquitoes, kokorako's who pick the least opportune times to crow (which is all the time), being sweaty the majority of the time,neighbours who sing at inconvenient times… most of all I will miss the people here.
In the end, it all comes down to the people. They say, (I don't actually know who "they" are, but I'm sure they are a reliable source) that it is the people that make a place and that is most defiantly the case for me. I have met some truly incredible people here in the Solomons, people that in more ways than one have made massive impact on my life. I count myself truly am blessed to have met and known them. Below are just a FEW of some of these wonderful people.
So, tengkiu tumas Solomon Islands, hemi ben barava gud tumas! Mi lovem yufala!
God is good, all the time.
All the time, God is good.
PS: I made my flight this time! And a tad bit of an update for you who are not informed, I "have" to stay an extra 6 days in Brisbane area as I couldn't get on a flight back to Edmonton until April 18. So I'm "stuck" here until then. ( I know, life is hard sometimes.)
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