Today has been one of the best days in Dominica!! I got to play softball this morning! Ross has their own little version of intermurals. They have football – which is the most popular – and softball. I think they might even have volleyball too – Im not sure. Anyway so one of the spouses plays on her husbands team and they asked me to join!! There are only three teams – so we just play each other all semester but I wouldn’t care if their were only two teams!! This morning I was the only girl on the team because Krista – the other spouse - was sick with an upper respiratory infection. I played first base and did pretty good. I was a little rusty I have to admit. But it was just so much fun! The bat they have is pretty horrible and we all have to share gloves – and the balls are weird. Its like they’ve all been soaked in water or something. Again – it was still fun! My team WON!!! I think the score was like 8-4 or something like that.

While we were playing there were a lot of little Dominican kids watching us and hanging out with us. They were so sweet. One little girl was very outgoing and she asked me my name. I told her Liz – which is a very weird name to them so I always have to explain to them that its short for Elizabeth. So when I said Elizabeth she said “oh – like the name in the Bible!!”. It was so cute. And then after rounding the bases one time I came in and sat beside her and told her I was out of shape. I asked her if she knew what that meant and she said “Yes – it means that your big – like me!! I weigh 115 lbs.!!” I tried to explain to her that she was not big and then I told her how much I weighed (which was A LOT more than her) and that made her happy.

The top picture is of Justin in our new “hammock seat”. We found it under our house (we have a small storage room under there). As you can see from the picture below it – its probably not the safest thing to sit in. The hook that its on has cracks all on the sides – like the roof is fixing to fall in our something. He said its pretty comfortable but Im not brave enough to try it out.   

Don’t forget – Justin speaks tomorrow in our church service!! It is at 11:00 am – which is 10:00 am central time.

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