i want to be like water

okay so where did i leave off? oh right. I love America.

i was initially working the gate for a couple of hours after help set some stuff up. but then that night we were supposed to have the amazing reggie dabbs speak. somewhere around 6:30-7, it starts to rain-bad. so every one has to get in their cars to take shelter, hopefully wait it out. so i get in a car with people who became new friends since my car was so far away and then i leave to find out what's going on. apparently people are saying everything is cancelled. i know reggie. nothing would be canceled on his watch.

so i find him, get to hang out with him and talk about mutual friends we have in florida. and it clears up a bit. he says he's going to speak. so he plays the saxophone and brings people back in. slowly, you see people coming back. then, he does the thriller tribute to michael jackson and probably 1,000 people are out there doing thriller. not correctly though. only savannah and i were the ones who knew how to actually do the dance. so we do it in the rain that has started to pick up a little bit.

after reggie speaks, it kind of starts to pour, but luckily, knowing the right people, i get on a golfcart and don't get as soaked, but what an experience. watching fireworks in the rain. and after having an h2h with my students. good times. as i was sitting in the golf cart watching the rain-the rain wasn't a bad thing. it was so nice-especially because it was so hot. it was refreshing to see rain-even if it drove people away.

and i thought back to a Liberia moment where my friend Taya and I were walking through the forest for what seemed like forever. we ran out of water the last day and when we got to the end, we couldn't care less if anyone picked us up to take us to base on time. we just wanted water. when we drank it, it was the most incredible thing i had ever tasted in that moment. it was what we needed to be refreshed.

water's also flexible. it can go anywhere and fit in places other things can't. i want to be like water.

on a horrible sidenote-considering that would've been a great note to end on-i'm going to mexico tomorrow for a week. this should be interesting. usually people go on multiple missions trips to realise they want to be overseas. i'm kind of going backwards-but that's just how i do things i guess. i'm going with my teenagers, so this should be interesting. we'll see what happens.

love,
patty