The Dead of Night

I was in Mantavant at Laura's house on walkabout week and at midnight I woke up wide awake with the song "Putting on the Ritz" playing in my head. If you don't know this song I'm so sorry!  YouTube it immediately! Any who, that's the song I would put on repeat the last week I was home driving around in my mom's car.  I fought to go back to sleep as that morning was going to be a very very long but fun day.  (I get to meet some of G26, the group who came a year before us). Any way I just couldn't sleep so I FINALLY pulled myself from under the  mosquito net and out of Laura's amazing hammock and went to the small house aka toilet (which hers is a cool hole in the ground.  It's shaped like the lock a skeleton key would go in. Man oh man how my standard for cool toilets has changed!)

So after doing what had to be done I felt like I really needed to call home and talk with my mom. The call went close to this:

Hi mom! 

Hi baby (I love that no matter how old I am I'm always my momma's baby) 

Mom what's wrong? I can't sleep and I feel like something is wrong!

Well things are going well but Mia (my oldest sister who is very prego at the moment) is in the hospital. 

Ok, Why?

Just monitoring the baby, trying to keep them both safe. (My mom is amazing at telling me just enough without worrying me badly)

Ok, how are you?

I'm doing good

I'm sorry I don't call more.  It's hard and costly.

I know baby, I love you.

I love you too Mom.

I'll talk to you later.

Ok love you.  Bye

I share all that with you for 3 reasons:

#1: I don't have signal at my site in Womul,  I couldn't have called if I was up there. 

#2: I shouldn't have had the credit to call but a very good friend figured out how to top up my phone credit so I could and I didn't know it until I went to make the call. ( A million THANKS!)

#3: It's so reassuring to me to know that I can be so very far away from my family and know just when I need to call and the way is provided for me to do so. I call those my tender mercies and I'm sure the next 2+ years will be filled with them.

By the way, I'm adding to the info page a way to top me up, if you do decide to do it (which you so don't have too) it's best to do it Wednesday or Thursday U.S. time frame and 1000 VT (about $10) because most times they are running a special to double the credit.  Here's the website: https://online-top-up.digicelgroup.com/en-VU/signup/  Use the number: 6785422075

Until next time

Jump in the Jungle