Today was the beginning of Christmas Break which really means two things for me. The first is that it means my closest Savoonga friend ditched me for Belize. I hope she didn't suffer too much frostbite as she waited for her plane in her flip flops and sun hat at 10 below plus windchill. Ah Mandi!:) Really, would you want to haul your massive pile of snow gear to sit on the beach for 10 days? She did leave us with two bags full of fresh veggies (they pay for a box to be shipped up each week)and Bob Dylan's Christmas CD which meant we had some amazing pizza tonight while enjoying some great music (okay, I enjoyed Bob...Jacob suffered through him!) and I was only left to miss a good dark beer on our dry island.
The second thing that Christmas Break means for me is that we enjoyed our wonderful meal while fighting off loads of hovering children!:) (No school means many more kids at our house attempting to find a warm gathering place!) No, only a few needed constant urging to let us eat in peace. The rest hung out in other corners of the house with our 4 house guests. We've had 4 people from YWAM staying with us for a week or so. They wanted to reconnect with people in Savoonga, so they are spending their YWAM Christmas break with us. It's been really good to have them around. One is a girl who has stayed with us 3 times before so we're beginning to know her well. Another is a girl from New Zealand who just spent a month with us. The two guys are both from Anaktuvuk Pass, a village farther north than us. They all have sarcastic, blunt, yet sincere personalities, so we are enjoying each other's company:)
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I don't know, Kami, how you transition from "we now have fresh veggies" to "we enjoyed good pizza" those tow things seem to be unrelated to me.....
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