Mass e-mail #7
Dear My Wonderful Family and Friends,
Before I start this e-mail off, I would like to say CONGRATS to the following people:
1.) Emily - I am so HAPPY and EXCITED you got into Biola! Everyone this is a college that is very close to mine! That makes my whole life, well almost my whole life! Now I have another Best Friend living near me when I am down at school, another reason to stay! Haha! Everyone, incase you don’t know Emily, she is a very close friend of mine, and has been there for me this last year with a lot of stuff, and I am so grateful for her!
2.) Dad and Sunny - CONGRATS on getting engaged! That is right my father finally found someone! I know, I thought it would never happen either. Haha Just kidding! But Sunny is great, and I am totally excited and happy for them too!
3.) And to everyone Who has a birthday this month, which I’m not sure who, If any, Happy Birthday! ( I had to add a 3rd thing, 2 things just sound lame, and I hate even numbers!)
Anyways, HI again! I know its only been a week, but I just got back from my spring break trip, and I must tell you all about it. You wont be hearing from me in quite sometime after this.
Okay so we went to Durban for the weekend (yes this was our spring break!) Mandy, Katie, Brooke, and I all stayed in a hotel room and smashed our two bed together. I ended up sleeping on the floor because I can’t sleep next to anyone. (My husbands really going to love the quality in me). Anyways we stayed at the Beach Hotel, and you guessed it, it was right on the beach! =) which was amazing. We tanned all day long, made our lunches and ate on the beach! And they had this huge thing all weekend and my friends Mandy and Katie got to go on stage and dance! Haha super funny, they made fools out of themselves! But got in 2nd and 3rd place because everyone thought they were so funny. At night we would take Taxi’s and go to Florida St. where all of the fun was. We found the FIRST Mexican place we had seen since we got to South Africa. We were so excited about it, we ate there the 3 days we were in Durban. It was great though because the guy who owned it was from San Diego, and hooked us up with Chips and drinks whenever we wanted!
So here is a little story for you. We have this thing (between the 27 girls on this trip), a little bet. The first girl to kiss a foreign guy wins 10 rand (which is there dollars in S.A.). I of course knew I would LOOSE because I am way to scared to kiss any one unless I am dating them. Anyways, my friend Katie on the other hand is not. One night when we were at the Mexican Food Place, these cute skater boys ( Yes Dave, skinny and everything), came into the place. They had longer hair, skinny, my total style! Everyone in our group was yelling at me, because everyone makes fun of me for liking these types of boys. Anyways Katie was like tonight is the night, I am winning the bet. So she goes upstairs ( we were down stairs), and I don’t see her for 20 minutes. Finally I look up ( you could see some of the balcony), and this cute boy (who looks like Kevin Stancell, for all you who know him), looks down at me and I get super nervous thinking Katie talked to him about me. So I go upstairs to get her away from there! When I get up there she has 7 boys around her, and they all go “Kristy, come speak to us in German!” And I was thinking…Okay…I don’t speak very much, but I know some, and why on earth do they want me to talk german? Come to find out there boys were from Germany, and told Katie they thought I was super cute. So I said “Fich Dich” haha Which I know only my grandma and mom knows what that means. And I said “Ich Hiesse Kristy, und du?” they thought it was so funny, and the one boy who looked like Kevin stancell, said remember these words and I said okay..and her german her said “You are very beautiful, the most beautiful girl I have ever seen!” haha I laughed when I asked him what it meant and said thanks. But I got nervous and told Katie we were going to get Ice cream. So she said bye to them, and right as she was leaving, a boy kissed her!!! AHH I screamed at the kid who told me I was beautiful and started to crack up! Katie won the bet like she said she would. As we were walking for about 30 minutes after that all happened, we pasted the Mexican food place again, and the boy who told me I was beautiful, yelled of the balcony “Kristy, my beautiful American girl WAIT!” and he jumped off the balcony and ran over to me! I was scared I wanted to run myself haha. He gave me his e-mail address, told me to come watch him the next day at the skate tournament they were having, and said hopefully I will see you there, if not come to Germany! I told him thanks and we walked away.
We got back to the hotel, and ate some ice cream and watched TV. All of us girls feel asleep. They next thing I know I hear knocking on our hotel room at 3 in the morning. I freak out and look out of the peep whole. There was 3 of the german boys! All my friends and I just ignored them and went back to bed. The next morning we had roses out side of our door, and a letter telling us they hoped we would come watch them skate! So after being on the beach for about 5 hours we walked over to the skate place. We saw the tournament, but the boys were not there. There friend Dallas, who is actually a famous skater who skates for element told us that these boys could not stop talking about us haha, and that he didn’t know where they were. So we hung with Dallas for about 2 hours and then left. Come to find out, they actually came right after us. Mandy my friend got an e-mail from one of them and he told us. So I thought I would share this story with you, since I felt like I was in middle school all over again! Haha. Plus this is what you expect when you go on a study abroad trip right?? Haha.
So spring break was a lot of fun, I just chilled on the beach, watched a surf tournament, watched a skating tournament, played a little soccer on the beach with some kids, and sun tanned. We also walked around the little markets and I got some RAD things and made some awesome friends with the people. I am so excited to hang out these next 4 weeks in the townships and AIDS Hospitals! Its going to be life changing, and hard at times, but I am so excited to finally meet the south Africans. I love you all and miss you a lot! Can’t wait to see you all! We have about 1 month left here! Be praying for me, and my team these next few weeks!
Love Always, Kristy
Before I start this e-mail off, I would like to say CONGRATS to the following people:
1.) Emily - I am so HAPPY and EXCITED you got into Biola! Everyone this is a college that is very close to mine! That makes my whole life, well almost my whole life! Now I have another Best Friend living near me when I am down at school, another reason to stay! Haha! Everyone, incase you don’t know Emily, she is a very close friend of mine, and has been there for me this last year with a lot of stuff, and I am so grateful for her!
2.) Dad and Sunny - CONGRATS on getting engaged! That is right my father finally found someone! I know, I thought it would never happen either. Haha Just kidding! But Sunny is great, and I am totally excited and happy for them too!
3.) And to everyone Who has a birthday this month, which I’m not sure who, If any, Happy Birthday! ( I had to add a 3rd thing, 2 things just sound lame, and I hate even numbers!)
Anyways, HI again! I know its only been a week, but I just got back from my spring break trip, and I must tell you all about it. You wont be hearing from me in quite sometime after this.
Okay so we went to Durban for the weekend (yes this was our spring break!) Mandy, Katie, Brooke, and I all stayed in a hotel room and smashed our two bed together. I ended up sleeping on the floor because I can’t sleep next to anyone. (My husbands really going to love the quality in me). Anyways we stayed at the Beach Hotel, and you guessed it, it was right on the beach! =) which was amazing. We tanned all day long, made our lunches and ate on the beach! And they had this huge thing all weekend and my friends Mandy and Katie got to go on stage and dance! Haha super funny, they made fools out of themselves! But got in 2nd and 3rd place because everyone thought they were so funny. At night we would take Taxi’s and go to Florida St. where all of the fun was. We found the FIRST Mexican place we had seen since we got to South Africa. We were so excited about it, we ate there the 3 days we were in Durban. It was great though because the guy who owned it was from San Diego, and hooked us up with Chips and drinks whenever we wanted!
So here is a little story for you. We have this thing (between the 27 girls on this trip), a little bet. The first girl to kiss a foreign guy wins 10 rand (which is there dollars in S.A.). I of course knew I would LOOSE because I am way to scared to kiss any one unless I am dating them. Anyways, my friend Katie on the other hand is not. One night when we were at the Mexican Food Place, these cute skater boys ( Yes Dave, skinny and everything), came into the place. They had longer hair, skinny, my total style! Everyone in our group was yelling at me, because everyone makes fun of me for liking these types of boys. Anyways Katie was like tonight is the night, I am winning the bet. So she goes upstairs ( we were down stairs), and I don’t see her for 20 minutes. Finally I look up ( you could see some of the balcony), and this cute boy (who looks like Kevin Stancell, for all you who know him), looks down at me and I get super nervous thinking Katie talked to him about me. So I go upstairs to get her away from there! When I get up there she has 7 boys around her, and they all go “Kristy, come speak to us in German!” And I was thinking…Okay…I don’t speak very much, but I know some, and why on earth do they want me to talk german? Come to find out there boys were from Germany, and told Katie they thought I was super cute. So I said “Fich Dich” haha Which I know only my grandma and mom knows what that means. And I said “Ich Hiesse Kristy, und du?” they thought it was so funny, and the one boy who looked like Kevin stancell, said remember these words and I said okay..and her german her said “You are very beautiful, the most beautiful girl I have ever seen!” haha I laughed when I asked him what it meant and said thanks. But I got nervous and told Katie we were going to get Ice cream. So she said bye to them, and right as she was leaving, a boy kissed her!!! AHH I screamed at the kid who told me I was beautiful and started to crack up! Katie won the bet like she said she would. As we were walking for about 30 minutes after that all happened, we pasted the Mexican food place again, and the boy who told me I was beautiful, yelled of the balcony “Kristy, my beautiful American girl WAIT!” and he jumped off the balcony and ran over to me! I was scared I wanted to run myself haha. He gave me his e-mail address, told me to come watch him the next day at the skate tournament they were having, and said hopefully I will see you there, if not come to Germany! I told him thanks and we walked away.
We got back to the hotel, and ate some ice cream and watched TV. All of us girls feel asleep. They next thing I know I hear knocking on our hotel room at 3 in the morning. I freak out and look out of the peep whole. There was 3 of the german boys! All my friends and I just ignored them and went back to bed. The next morning we had roses out side of our door, and a letter telling us they hoped we would come watch them skate! So after being on the beach for about 5 hours we walked over to the skate place. We saw the tournament, but the boys were not there. There friend Dallas, who is actually a famous skater who skates for element told us that these boys could not stop talking about us haha, and that he didn’t know where they were. So we hung with Dallas for about 2 hours and then left. Come to find out, they actually came right after us. Mandy my friend got an e-mail from one of them and he told us. So I thought I would share this story with you, since I felt like I was in middle school all over again! Haha. Plus this is what you expect when you go on a study abroad trip right?? Haha.
So spring break was a lot of fun, I just chilled on the beach, watched a surf tournament, watched a skating tournament, played a little soccer on the beach with some kids, and sun tanned. We also walked around the little markets and I got some RAD things and made some awesome friends with the people. I am so excited to hang out these next 4 weeks in the townships and AIDS Hospitals! Its going to be life changing, and hard at times, but I am so excited to finally meet the south Africans. I love you all and miss you a lot! Can’t wait to see you all! We have about 1 month left here! Be praying for me, and my team these next few weeks!
Love Always, Kristy