This week I packed up and sent my roomie off to America... for good. She is going home to spend time with her ailing father, and then transitioning to a new job with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries.
Beck and I met way back in 2000 when we were both attending Loma Linda University. She was doing her residency in preventative medicine and I was working on my M.P.H. Little did we know that 9 years later we would be sharing a house in PNG! Over these years she has been a wonderful friend, listener, and counselor. We have had made some great memories with Bones, fuzzy mustaches, our lemon-squeezing-dish-washing roomie, the Queen's birthday, sometimes crazy pets, little sisters, and care packages (just to name a few). Our adventures have taken us from Aniwa to Thailand to Hewa to Fiji. I have learned much from her as we have lived and served together in some of the most remote parts of the world.
Thanks, Beck, for an awesome 4 1/2 years! I could not have done this without you. I miss you, my friend. Well, everything except your incessant humming. Hee hee.
Here is a photographic tribute to the fun times we have had together :).
Home sweet PNG home
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| Roomies |
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| Classic Beck |
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| Our first house |
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| Pete the ax-murdering-chicken-cat |
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| Our baby, Boo! |
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| Sweet P being ornery as usual |
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| Our lemon-squeezing-dish-washing roomie, Pamela. |
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| Pamela loves Brutus!!! |
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| Out on the town in Herbie the Love Bug |
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| Your family |
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| And mine |
Our sister Meti
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| Meti's first birthday |
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| At Kawi church |
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| Meti's ground |
ANIWA!!!
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| Team Aniwa |
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| Beachfront property |
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| PPH water |
Little sisters
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| Our first group |
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| Making pizza |
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| Susan's baptism |
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| Decorating Christmas cookies! |
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| Spa night |
More fun times
Mostly involving costumes :).
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| Italian dinner party |
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| Mad Hatter Tea Party |
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| Care package! |
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| The Queen's B-day |
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| National doughnut week |
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| Harvest party |
ADVENTURES
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| Zip line in Thailand |
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| Cruising Fiji! |
Hewa
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| On our way to the big bush |
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| I can't believe I included this one. |
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| Hewa tribe |
The orphanage
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