An unrelated story.

The following is the true account of a true student. It was originally written to a friend, but deemed important enough to post and share with the world.

Walking along Great King St. in Dunedin with myself were Kat, Liz, Osasehi and Chelsea. The time was approximately 9:28 pm and we were escorting Kat to the bus station.
Suddenly, I spied a suspicious-looking item on the road - lying in approximately the same place that a car tire would sit when a car is parked at the roadside.
The suspicious-looking package looked suspiciously like a package of inexpensive, minty-fresh chewing gum. Lo and behold, it was! Buried underneath the three crushed and contaminated pieces lay one pristine candy-coated piece. Untouched, it called to me through the mist of voices. The voices were crying,

"No Liz! A dog could have peed on it!"
"Don't do it! It might be drugged!"

My TRUE friend of the bunch, Chelsea, let the piece of gum speak through her. With a sly smile she spoke.

"Do it, Liz."

It was yummy. Minty fresh, it served it's purpose and made my teeth (and breath) sparkle. I was told I was going to die. But I figured - bring it on!

And that's my story. Now I'm going to read about Abnormal Psychology where they'll probably describe, in detail, what's wrong with people who eat food off the ground.
...but I'm pretty sure they're called "students."

A picture speaks a thousand words...

I'm not quite sure what's up with me este momento. Pero, pictures will have to make up for the words I can't seem to generate.
I know. Me! Not able to talk?? Am I ill?
In my "news from home" photo album, I have posted the picture I have of the kids my parents decided to adopt. Their decision to adopt only means that paperwork goes forward...there are still some battles ahead, but we are praying everything goes smoothly. God is still sovereign!

And a very dear friend is getting married in September. I would be in the wedding party. I only cried a little...sort of.

drying

I'll update on Australia soon, but I wanted to share a piece of fantastic recent news from the girls' flat. This morning, after dropping off Angela at her morning radio show, Claire and I went to the weekly Dunedin Farmer's Market (as per usual). We were early enough that there were still pies at the pie stand and still free range eggs available at the free range egg stand.
The weather was surprisingly pleasant and we enjoyed a stroll while making our purchases. We stopped by Countdown (grocery) as I had to pick up some things for the American Thangsgiving dinner I am cooking tomorrow night for some friends. We were checking out when we saw it.

A drying rack! And a cheap one!

As we don't use our dryer often (to save on electricity) there is always a mad scramble for use of the banisters in the drying of laundry. Claire and I looked at each other with excitement in our faces and decided to purchase it. We were so ecstatic about this newest flatmate that we talked about it for a bit of the way home.

Whoever knew white plastic-coated metal could be so wonderful??? :o)