Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies and Soursop

There are several unrelated important moments of understanding that happened today so please excuse a no-themer...there's really nothing that ties these things together except that they happened to happen on this Wednesday!

1.We had our CARE team meeting today, and we have a new home! We are officially (almost) ready to move into our new lab space. (Couch to be added!) Check out my blog entry for our CARE website for some details about our time together today: CARE Blog-Listening

Kang and JT modeling with our new furniture!

My CARE family is AWESOME and I learned so much from them today...including that Daniel makes the most deee-lish oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. They reminded me so much of home...so naturally I ate 3 (or 4 but who's counting?)

2.I found out that what I thought were alarms going off almost all the time on campus over the last week are actually Cicadas (bugs). I thought I was in constant need to evacuate my office on the regular because I kept hearing "alarms" from my office. #fooledmeonce #fooledmetwice #canfinallyrelax

3. I visited a church last Sunday: EN Central and loved it! Everyone was so friendly and what I loved the most is how many different nations were represented in the congregation. I connected with a LifeGroup last Sunday and went to their first get together tonight. I felt so loved by them and have been receiving encouragement texts many mornings of the last week from them! Most of the members are from the Philippines, and they prayed for me and sent me home with hugs and even a personal escort on the MRT :) They are so funny and adventurous and I have already learned so many things from their lively spirits!

4.I finally learned what a soursop fruit is:

Besides knowing that it is 1 of the 2 ingredients in my favorite fruit slush served downstairs from my office, I had no idea. But here it is, an exposé -it looks like a spiny apple/avocado but tastes like  your favorite popsicle flavor . 

One.Great.Wednesday.