Beans, beans, the musical fruit

The more you eat, the more you toot. Let me tell you, it has been interesting living where the staple food is beans and rice. It's been a bit smelly; around the apartment, the school and the dorm/houses. But beans and rice is good, though I am also enjoying the fruits and chicken.

Except for the chickens in the neighbor's yard. I have gotten used to them enough to be able to sleep through the night now, though it has taken me about a week. And sleep is a good thing, since I have been busy this past week and a half. I have had work, and then welcome dinners, eating in the girls' house and staff events, like going to Santiago or watching Grey's Anatomy.

It is amazing how much thinking and writing and reflecting I have been doing with new things all around me. So many changes and things to get used to. Friends to leave behind and new friends to make. What has been good is that I have been able to make some changes that I wanted to make in my life. That is the joy of new beginnings. That is why New Years is great. With this change, I have been able to read my Bible more, write and reflect more and read more.

I like the changes I have been able to make. Now I just have to hope, as time passes, I will like the changes that have happened around me. It takes time....

"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
Phil 3:10-14