Memories from Feburary...

so its been three months and i have in fact only gotten worse at updating this, but for good reason. we are busy man. seriously. and at the end of the day im tired. it's much easier to want to read blogs then sit and think about what i want to write. but over the next few im going to recount some of the events of the past few months as best as i can.

so in this one ill start way back in Feb...lets see what my noggin can recall....

February...


So February was a fun month overall.
It started with the arrival of our final roommate, Oscar, and a visit form the badenhops(see picture above).
There are afew of my favorite memories from first few weeks of the month
The first happened after Aaron and Elizabeth had treated our team to dinner. We were standing outside of the restaurant. The name of the restaurant was The Pumpkin...i don't remember the word in spanish. but anyway, after dinner, we headed outside to get taxi's back to the girls apartment to hang out. after everyone else had left, David, Sarah, Lisa, and I were the last ones left waiting on a taxi. As we are standing out side a taxi pulls up and the security guard approaches the car before any of do. He talks to the taxi driver for a moment, then the taxi drives away. after a second of being perplexed David finally speaks with the security guard. i didn't understand what he was saying, but whatever it was it made Sarah laugh and David's eyes get a little bigger. As David came back, we asked him what happened, he and Sarah happily recanted what had happened. their translation: "He was a pirate. He was going to rob you". that's what the guard had told david. EEV..

The week after the Badenhops had gone back to the States, it was the guys turn to make dinner for the rest of our team. We get the brilliant idea to make french toast. tasty, simple, everyone can eat it. perfect.
so around 7 everyone gets to our apartment and we begin to make dinner. about 5 minutes into the venture, the lights go out. there's no turning back at this point, we were committed. hungry people at our house, food in different stages of preparation, we had to forge ahead. if my memory serves me correctly, i believe that was the first time i had ever made french toast by flashlight. it was quite a fun experience as we bounced the light back and forth between the bacon and the french toast, hoping to catch either before they had been burned to a crisp. eventually dinner was ready to be served and surely enough the lights came back just in time for us to enjoy our dinner together.

after that, everything gets a little fuzzy. we had an awesome outreach on campus about love, we saw the movie Valentines Day(which i recommend. it also reminded me that i have a huge crush on jessica beil...), and making complete fools out of ourselves in a Chinese restaurant( we had napkin races, and chopstick races and made a scene, it was fantastic!)
February concluded with our visa renewal trip to beautiful Curacao. but seriously, it was b-e-a-utiful. ive never seen water so blue, or sand so white, or fishes so colorful. Awesome. It was also a great chance to sit back and think about what i would be doing with the next year of my life, which was a decision i had been wrestling with quite a bit.but that decision wouldn't come until March. For now, more about Curacao...