Good times in Akron

I leave in two days!
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That is how I feel. It has been so long, waiting and anticipating the coming year and now it is finally here. It doesn't help that here in Akron we have been having a wonderful time and I have to leave all of these people as well. I have gotten the pleasure of meet some strong, funny, and beautiful people here and I though I would share some funny stories:
On the first day I meet many people and I was talking to Jonathan and asking him where he is from and so I told him I was from Colorado and he had said he just visited there because his fiance lives there. I had then asked him who is fiance was because Littleton is a small town. He then told me his fiance was Mandy Mramor and for literally ten minutes I was shocked and couldn't believe. Mandy had gone to my church and had been very good friends with my sister and I had for even on Facebook stalked their engagement pictures and it all connected and it was just amazing to meet the connections that God puts into our lives and it just took me way from how he is always working and it has been wonderful to get to know John.
Yesterday a bunch of us girls walked down to the Kmart, we were looking for scissors because one of the girls Krissy is very good a cutting hair and everyone wanted their hair cut. We arrived at Kmart and got scissors and then while waiting found some temporary tattoos and got so excited! I got a unicorn and some of the other girls got owls and cats and mermaids. We laughed for so long when we put them on and it was so much fun. We of course being Mennonites are very rebellious and put them onto our low backs.  Tramp stampin' it up! Then later Krissy cut all of our hair and I got it cut way short and so did Rachel! We all cut off a lot and so there was a giant pile of hair and we didn't know what to do with it and so decided some ideas, we were going to prank someone or bury it like witches or throw it at people. It sounds creepy and it is. So we couldn't decide so be just put it in a plastic bag and it is sitting on a shelf in my room. Soooooooooo creepy.
Earlier in the day yesterday we had a session about jumping cultures where we played a game. The game was that there was two business people and the rest of a group was a country. You as a business person had to see if your country could open a shoe factory and if it was a good place to have a shoe factory. I was a business person asking questions to my country to see if it would be a good fit. You could only ask yes or no questions to the country as well. We asked many questions to  see if it was a good fit and it became hard because they it felt had a separate set of instructions. In the end we tried to find what was wrong with the communication and found that they based answering the questions on if we were smiling or not. I was quite confused asking questions because you try to gauge your questions on how they responded but they didn't even care about the questions! I had a very confused look on my face and Wade was going around taking picture when he saw how confused I looked he laughed and he showed me a picture of my face in utter confusion, I laughed so hard I cried. It was such a fun game and as well we learned about communication and how not everything we know is the whole story.

It has been truly a wonderful experience getting to know these people as well as seeing how God will work in each and everyone of their lives and I am excited to come back in a year for reorientation and see how we have changed!