I hope I am able to do justice to the past few days, so here goes.
On Saturdays we quit at 12 or 1 p.m. whichever works. This past Saturday I went back to my room until about 4p.m. and then went for a walk. I saw a drunk guy stumbling along one of the courtyards and he waived and off he went. About an hour and half later, I went to eat dinner at a nice restaurant that has outside seating looking at the bay. Wanna guess who else was there. When I tried to sit down at a table I heard, NO, NO come over here and sit with me! At this point use a drunk French accent and you will get the picture. I tried to wave him off but, NO! NO! sit with me! So I sat with the drunk Frenchman.
First thing he said was, So your American! Sometimes I cant stand Americans and other times I love them! I feel the same way, so we were off to a good start! Anyway, I order my meal and he pushes his plate into the middle of the table and insists I share. Wont take no for an answer.
Well, we talk and I found out he is a diving instructor at a 5 star resort across the bay. This is his day off so, voila! We continue to have a little disconnected conversation and in the midst of all this 4 college students and 2 chaparones sit at the table a little ways behind us.
We keep talking and pretty soon he lifts up on his left cheek and lets a big one rip! Of course the people look at us and I just continue on. He is close to finishing his meal and wants the rest to go with 4 more beers. He then gets up and approaches the students and says, Hey, are you Americans. Anyway, they acknowledge they are and after about 10 to 15 minutes of handshakes, hugging me because I am American and getting my phone number so I can go snorkeling at his resort....he leaves.
I then talk to the other table. They are 4 college students from Colorado Springs with their Portugese teacher and a lady who live in Mozambique who is from Brazil. I tell them why I am here and after a few minutes the students leave and I talk to the 2 women.
She is a believer and he husband works for Compassion International. The Brazilian woman has been a missionary in Mozambique for 20 years. Cool, huh.
It has been interesting the people God has brought to this place. In spite of the internet issue, things are going well. These students and sponsors have been fun to talk to and I really am enjoying my time.
People are waiting to use the computer here, so I am going to sign off. Hope my story made sense.
Mike
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