its 1:18am and i was up till 3:00am last night. This is not gonna make sense

so because i havent written in awhile and because certain people who read my blog(one of the five) are bugging me about it, here i am. Writing. About who knows what. So tonight is, well i was about to write December 31 but really it is now officially January 1. Wow. crazy. We watched some pretty incredible fireworks tonight. However, we probably celebrated in a very different way than most American or really western celebrations. For example, it was at least 80 degrees and VERY humid. in December. Also, my dad found great enjoyment from firing the roman candles into our mango tree to try and kill or at least scare half to death the two dozen fruit bats that live there. go figure. NOT your typical New Years celebration. Oh and does anyone really know all the words to that song everyone sings on New Years. Cause i certainly dont and no one here tonight did either. And if you do know all the words could you please explain to me what in the world they mean and WHAT they have to do with New years. Seriously. im sorry this makes no sense. now im gonna get serious and kinda sappy. get over it, its my blog.:)

So the reason i was up till three last night was because i have some pretty incredible friends here right now. The Downs family is here and they are so fun. Its been so awesome to watch them enjoy ghana and really want to learn about life here. I love it. So me and Sal Pal watched Step Up last night. SWEET movie. its awesome. So that ended at like 11. Then we came into the office and chilled with Tatum, Mags, Ry, and Annie. Tatum was playing Bejeweled. Thats pretty inevitable whenever either she or my dad are anywhere near a computer now. its pretty funny. mental picture of Michael Mozley playing bejeweled. its good let me just tell you. So back to the point. as we were all sitting there hanging and talking(about nothing in particular and yet everything) i started to realize what incredible friends i have. This only became more clear and everyone started drifting off to bed, leaving only me and Ry, the crazy teenagers, see annties(?) blog. It really is incredibly relieving to realize that I have friends that i can hang with and feel absolutely 100 percent comfortable with no matter what we are doing. Most of yall that read this know that the last semester has been really really hard for me. To be able to talk to Ry(till three in the morning) and the Downs just whenever the subject comes up is huge for me. It is refilling me, returning my Joy. The Lord gave me an incredible gift this year by sending these people. Theyre incredible and i honestly dont know what i would do without them. As i was realizing this about the people who are here, Ry and i started talking about all the incredible people who email me and keep in touch with me, listen to me vent, encourage me, make me laugh, occasionally make me cry, but ALWAYS touch me. Even so far away. Yall are my heroes, really and truly. This semester, as hard as it has been and as hard as i know the rest of the year will be, has allowed the Lord to open my eyes more fully to the incredible people that He has filled my life with. So Ry, Annie and Sally, thank yall so much for coming to visit. You saved my year in so many ways, you have no idea. Marge and Tatum, thanks for sticking with me and listening to me even when i whine(ugh).Mc(since you are the only one of my email friends that reads this) and all my other amazing email friends, thanks for being faithful, funny, wise and just plain incredible(i Have to stop using that word). gosh. yall are awesome. AND this is even getting mushy to me. I have to go to bed. If you read this and it makes no sense or is incredibly(THERE it is AGAIN) sappy,i apologize and plead exhaustion. But i did mean everything i said and a whole lot more, im just not very good with words.

i love you guys
happy new years