Life is like a box of chocolates...

Yeah, that's right...you never know what you're gonna get. And that seems to be particularly true here in Papua. For one thing, planning is totally on the fly here. Plans that were made previously are almost for certain going to change. For instance, last week was supposed to be our last week in SP11 so we closed up the house, brought all of our stuff back to the city, said our goodbyes, only to find out that our plans had changed again and we were going back to SP11. And secondly, you never know what you might get, because life here is just plain full of surprises...like ending up in a muslim wedding or an earthquake (both good stories, I'll share later)...but, you never know what might happen next.

These are few more random shots from around SP...and this one in particular is for our mothers. The top bucket is the water that comes from the well and that is what we use for bucket baths and cleaning dishes. The bottom bucket is our drinking water after it has gone through the filter.

This has been our project the last 2 weeks. We have been painting the inside and outside of the school. We have definitely been taking advantage of Joerg's drawing talents.

We also helped clean out a chocolate garden last week. They gave us big machete type things and let us go to town. It was hot, buggy work, but we enjoyed being able to help out. The chocolate garden belongs to Lazarus and Diana, and Lazarus fell out of a truck last week and broke his leg (from what I understand). Lazarus and Diana are both people from the church and they are really cool people. They have a 2 year old and a 3 month old, and Diana is only 16 years old!

This is us with our friend Nirmala before we left SP11. Nirmala is originally from Sumatra but is living out at SP11, serving the people there for the next couple of months. There are several people that we have grown close with during our time here, but for me, my time with Nirmala has been some of the best. She is one friend that I will miss very much.