I Voted!!!!

This is just a random pic. I don't really have any new ones from this week.

YAY!!!!!! I went to America today to vote. Well...I went to the embassy to vote! I was so happy because I didn't meet the absentee requirements before I left, but then I found out I could vote at the embassy. Now I feel a little bit better about myself.

We've been in language learning this week. Yesterday I learned how to count. My tutor asked me to count the tires on a car and I counted them out loud in Spanish. She looked at me crazy. Just a minute ago, we rode an autoricksaw home from a friends house and got lost. Once we finally found the house, the driver said "Saat." I thought he was trying to say sorry for getting us lost. I said, "It's ok, don't worry about it." Well, he was saying 70 which is 20 more rupees than we had agreed on. My friend looked at me like I was stupid. I'm getting crazy looks from locals and my own friends.

Hopefully by this time next week, we'll be in our flat and we'll also know who the next President will be. I'm so excited about both events.


There are a few verses that talking about praying and submitting to those in authority, but I'm going to quote two different version of this verse: 1 Timothy 2:1-3

"I urge, then, first of all, that request, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for
everyone--for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quite lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good and pleases God our Savior." (NIV version)


"The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live." (The Message; it's a paraphrase not a translation)


Pray and Vote. It's more that just a duty. I'm so glad I was able to vote, b/c if I didn't I couldn't have said that.

Yeah, I know this pic. is crooked. I still like it.


Health update: Ankle isn't swollen anymore. My boogers are not longer black from the pollution, but they are green b/c I'm sick. It's weird that I have a cold w/ a runny nose, sore throat, and cough when it's 80 degrees outside. Yeah, I said it...Boogers. What else do you call them?