where to start? i've been wanting to write about last weekend all week and the first chance i've got it's already the next weekend with a whole loads more stories to be told i'm sure. the last few weeks in Spain are rushing past. Actually i have less than 2 weeks left in the country, which is hard to get my head around. It makes me feel... SAD. which in turn is kind of good cuz it shows how great the last few months have been.
As i said to someone the other day, i have good reasons to stay. that is... PEOPLE. people i love. and... i guess feeling "useful", to put it crudely. that is to say, being able to hopefully make some little differences in people's lives. being a 'blessing'.
At the same time, there's good reasons to be in my 'other world' too. there's my family, there's friends i haven't seen all year, there's weddings and studies to finish and waitressing and dancing which maybe aren't so important but still things i love to do. but i guess i don't know quite what i'm going back to. it's all a bit uncertain. life will have moved on for everyone else in the last 9 months, not least that the majority of friends are currently finishing university. and its moved on for me. although maybe i won't know quite what this means till i'm there.
so a lot going on in my head. and meanwhile things are carrying on a full speed. tomorrow there's a big church youth event (for all extremadura) here in Badajoz, so been part of organising that. includes prayer rooms that we've decorated, picnic, a photo challenge and more... and in the evening there's the third of the concerts that the church has organised to be put on in the square nearby, and we are performing a dance just before that (many hours of practise unfortunately are not seeming to produce desired effects... but hey too late to worry now... hopefully it will be OK!). then on sunday it's a suprise birthday party for one of the young guys at church. and have a couple who are part of the band performing staying in my flat...
as for LAST WEEKEND... i think a summary will have to do!
family reunited * graduation * chinese meal * four guys from Gandia staying in flat (unplanned) means i go and share room with 2 new friends thereby forcing ant from his room * attempted studying * dance practise * rain * concert inside church building brings police as it was too loud * birthday party and cake fight (to which we travelled in the back of a big white van... driven by the very same person who had walked in on me dancing 'slightly' embarrassingly in the church building that afternoon.oops.) * late nights talking * more chinese food * more dance practise * 17 of us walk tour badajoz streets * ice cream * kebabs and origami * crap film * more late night talking...
weekends like that make me happy!
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