CHRISTMAS!!!

I am so done for the semester and it's AWESOME!!! Now I get a three week holiday to eat, sleep, and fill out the accreditation packet, YECK. But I am home now for the holidays, kinda still wishing a bit that I was in Guinea for the holidays where it is 35 degrees. I wonder when you will hear me stop complaining about the cold. Emma went to Guinea to see Laura, I'm quite Jealous, but I did send a package for my Guinean friends. I hope Emma goes to meet Faith and Lazare. I wish I could be there. Somehow I think that it isn't really cutlurally acceptable to surprise people with your arrival there because they want to be ready to receive you. But still, so often I think how fun it would be to surprise them by going there and just showing up at the door. It would be a much better reaction that in Canada... but then they would be mad cuz they weren't ready to recieve you... and yet at the same time, they are so used to people just showing up unexpected. Hmmm interesting. I guess it's different if you just came spur of the moment then some big trip that you had to plan for.
Anyways, back to the fact that it's Christmas.... Hmmm don't have much to say about that. Do you ever think of Jesus' return at Christmas. Since my Prayer class I have been thinking about that and it is really a neat thing to ponder at Christmas. Christmas is afterall a celebration of beginnings and the coming of Christ. Well this year why don't you ponder the second coming and what that will be like. Are you ready? He says it will be soon (like I told Jenica, he said that 2000 years ago, BUT there is no reason to believe it won't be tomorrow or in a year). He is coming and He has a marvelous place for us if we are ready. The end.