Before going to bed, I sat at the cement dock and watched
the ocean. It was so beautiful! The waves, the moon trying to peek out from
behind the clouds, the peacefulness. I could see God all around me and it was
amazing! The next morning, we were all pretty tired since he hadn’t slept very
well. We had breakfast, worship, and then the rest of the day to do as we like.
We went snorkeling and saw some beautiful fish and sea cucumbers! I didn’t get
to see any reef sharks sadly, but some people did! After snorkeling, Jen and I
made some soup for lunch. It was pretty good! The Edwards came in the
afternoon, and everyone just chilled and hung out in their hammocks. My hammock
got moved by one of the boys under some trees that had more covering and it was
about 6 ½ feet off the ground, above Riley’s hammock. Getting in was a
challenge but it was nice being up so high. As I was talking with people and
swaying gently in the hammock I suddenly see and hear one of the ropes holding
up my hammock snap. I look down and Riley, say “Uh-oh.” And the next moment,
the all the ropes snapped sending me straight to the ground. I was laughing so
hard and so were the other people and as I get up, we found that I landed so
hard on my butt, it left a print in the sand! I went to Pastor Tim and asked if
he could tie up the hammock for me. He scolded me for not asking him to retie
the ropes and added some extra rope so I wouldn’t be falling out again.
We had a sundown worship at the dock and then started to
prepare dinner. The Edwards had brought a case of chicken and whoever wanted to
eat some pitched in some money. Franky barbequed all of it and all the non
vegetarians were very happy to get some! Jen and I, being vegetarian, made
ourselves some biscuits and delicious baked potatoes over the fire. I did try
some chicken though. It wasn’t really gross tasting, just kind of weird and
definitely not good enough to convert me to omnivorism! We went to bed fairly
early that night, around 9:30ish because we were all so tired from not sleeping
the night before. Now I had gotten bit a whole bunch by mosquitos the night and
day before. It was crazy! I had at least 20 bites on my arms, legs, and face.
So Riley offered me his hammock which had a zipper with mesh to keep out the
bugs. (I still got bit because there were bugs inside when I closed it.) But around 2 am, after a couple hours of
dozing in and out, I woke up to rain. Not just a drizzle, but an actual rain
fall. I looked up and saw Riley look down at me. We both got down from our
hammocks and sat next to Roy’s hammock under the tarp. We soon found that
everyone was awake and we started talking. After a few minutes though, we also
found that the people under the tarp were getting wet too. Tired and just
really wanting some sleep, we all went to go find a hut to sleep in. We found
one and all laid down on the floor. But still, after an hour, sleep alluded us.
So we decided to go back to our hammocks since the rain had died down a bunch.
Riley’s and I’s hammocks were soaked though, so everyone else got in their
hammocks, and we laid down on the sand under the tarps by Roy’s hammock. We got
no sleep. I don’t think anyone really did. Roy and Riley started a conversation
about starting a pumpkin farm in Alaska after college since they grow really
well there apparently. The farm would be called King and Drusky. Oh man we were
so tired. Haha! Roy, Riley, and I got up and went to the dock to watch the
sunrise. Despite all the clouds, it was really pretty. J 
We were all exhausted that day and just really wanted to
head back to Pohnpei to shower and do stuff, but, we had to wait for the tide
to come back in. So until noon, I took a nap, packed up, and played some
volleyball. I got to go on the first trip of people going back, along with Jen,
Riley, Roy, Jonathan, Kaylie, Caleb, and Danny. We were excited to get back to
school and get stuff done! On the way back, it started to rain pretty hard. As
we were driving along, we heard a tire pop. Just great… We pulled over to see
that the tire was definitely not flat and fantastically, we had no spare. So
some people started walking toward the school so we could find someone to bring
a spare. But they stopped at a Latter Day Saints church and they drove them
over to the school since it was still a long ways off. While they were gone,
some Kitti church members saw us on the road, pulled over, and asked if we
needed help. They took Jonathan, Jen, Kaylie, and I back to the school while
Riley and Roy stayed behind with the van. We were soaking wet when we got back
but so happy to be back. Danny finally found someone to go help Riley and Roy
and soon everyone, including the other group was back. Showering and getting
all the salt water off of us was so amazing! I felt fantastic after that!
Monday was a pretty good day. My kids weren’t acting up a
lot like usual and my high school classes were pretty chill. I made a delicious
yellow cake with chocolate chips and chocolate frosting because well, I can! It
was really good! Now I am working on stuff for classes. Another week is in
progress! Have a good day everyone! J
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