i had the opportunity to visit my friend Sirley yesterday, she is helping me with my spanish and i am helping her with her english. it's a perfect trade! She and her husband have been great supporters, a real blessing to me when there were times i felt i just couldn't go on. she and i spent hours just chatting, both in english and spanish about girl stuff (you know...boys, dreams, where we are going, our fears, etc.). we laughed a lot and just had fun!
for my birthday (yes...i'm now officially "old" haha...i'm 30!!) a few of my girlfriends from the church put together a party for me! so sweet! i was richly blessed by there generosity...we ate good food, chatted about everything (of course all in spanish ... so a lot of it i listened too ;), and they taught me some fun latin dancing moves :).
after the party i went to one of the girls house to spend the night and we talked for at least an hour and a half about what it's like to be in another culture...and the differences there are in our cultures. we were up until 4am...then at 8am another girl came over and we had breakfast, chatted, made lunch and went out for a little while together....
it's amazing that even with the language barrier we can still connect...God has definitely made us women to be great communicators of friendship, meeting a need in all of us to feel wanted and loved.
thank you Lord for the gift of girlfriends....
L-R: Rohan, Jesi, me, Denise, Ajelyn
Dami and me...yeah I've got purple hair learning to dance :p haha...
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