Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a great day wherever you are at and that you have a happy and safe New Year's as well! This year definitely was hard to get in the Christmas spirit but I definitely had a great time. Angoche is becoming my home away from home. I am so happy that its just a two hour chapa ride. The volunteers that live in Angoche are amazing and love to host! Christmas on a beach is pretty frickin' cool. We celebrated on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas day. We figured Christmas day was going to be "not do anything because we celebrated the night before" day. So we headed to the beach in the morning, where I bathed in sunscreen and still got pretty burnt...Chega! Afterwards we went home to clean up and relax. We had an amazing seafood dinner and afterwards had a bonfire on the beach. A couple of us took a little swim. I had a really awesome moment where I was floating on my back and looking up at the stars. I still have a hard time believing this is my life. On Christmas day we just chilled out and recovered from the previous night. We had another amazing seafood meal. Today we all had to leave early. A majority of people left at 12:30am to catch a chapa to Nampula City...Arden and I were able to leave around 3:30am because we live a lot closer. This chapa ride was a little more scary for me because I had to stand and the roads are so bad here. I did manage to have a Kate Winslet, Titanic moment, though! The wind blowing through my hair and bugs hitting my face while Mozambicans are laughing at me...ok maybe it wasn't exactly like Kate Winslet's experience, but we were going fast enough that I felt like I was flying! We made it home in one piece though so that is all that matters.
I was honored to spend Christmas with some great people that Peace Corps has brought into my life and I look forward to celebrating future holidays together. I have never laughed so hard in my life!
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