I'm not a vegetarian. It started on the plane, and then it was just a little fish here and there since it was so plentiful, but now since discovering that I can live a lot more cheaply by eating the extra lunches that kids order then never even touch (apparently eating is uncool.. those crazy kids..) rather than buying groceries, I just eat whatever. And the lunches are most always a meat dish. So yea.
Related to the above item: Living on my own, I eat very unhealthily haha. My fridge contains milk, eggs, mushrooms (at least I think that's what they are), a few water bottles, and a lot of coconut (which I cut and eat fresh every day FTW!!!). About the only reasonable things I consume are the water and coconut. The PSS lunches are not good for you at all. If it weren't for my daily exercise, I would probably be dying of several things right now.
A single roll of toilet paper lasts a LONG time when there is just one single guy using it! Man it's amazing, it's like the stuff just never ends.
I got a tattoo. Don't freak out, it's just a little 42 that I hide under my watchband. I have wanted to get one for a long time, and one of our neighbors here does them, so I did it. Yes it hurt, yes he opened a clean needle so I don't have AIDS, and yes I'll probably get more in the future. No they won't be ghoulish figures which I find to be distasteful and no they won't be anything I can't cover with reasonable ease.
I play the guitar a lot. I mean a lot haha. At my apt there's no tv, no laptop, only guitar.
I feel more confident about myself. Saipan is a place that requires a lot of improvision, a lot of recalculating and then executing on the fly. I've had to do a lot of things that back home or just generally before I wouldn't have volunteered for or really been in a position of doing but here, a lot of the time it's a case of 'If you don't do it, it ain't gonna get done' so I HAVE to do things. And it's been growing me. I've learned that I can do things I didn't really think or know I could do before. I can maintain (reasonable haha) control of 50 or 60 unruly kids. I can fix a lot of broken things around a house with very few available tools (in the classical sense). I can do research, then set off alone in search of a place in the jungle and find it without winding up dead. I can be in charge of planning and then doing a youth vespers program. There's other things, but I don't want to sound like I'm boasting. The point is, I feel better about myself because I'm DOING more.
I read the Bible more here. For a month or so I would read a chapter or two of Psalms every morning after my run. Now I have been scooting around the Gospels and some other random passages. It's the first time in my life that I've more or less regularly "kept the morning watch". I have been a Pathfinder or associated with Pathfinders for years of my life and now at 22 is the first time I've kept that part for an extended period of time. Kinda sad, but better late than never I guess.
There's something to be said for the morning. I've never been a morning person, but here (maybe only because the day gets hot at around 7:00AM) I have been getting up before 6 every day, running, doing a few other exercises, and as I mentioned before reading the Bible. I feel so sloppy when I skip my routine now! And it helps with maintaining my own authority over the kids, because I don't meet them on equal ground in the morning. They roll in all sleepy and floppy, and I'm alert and ready because I've been up for over an hour already, run a mile, had a good (ok terrible) breakfast, read scripture, sometimes written a letter, made phone calls, etc etc and man I'm ready for the day sucka! So yea mornings :) Also, the sky is absolutely beautiful here in the early morning.
There's a few more scattered things here and there which I will post as they come to me. Ultimately, I thank God daily for putting me here. Every day is a new adventure :)
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