Friends come and go

One of the hardest things about living overseas or being an expat in general is that friends often come and go. You have already left many friends behind and then when you make friends in your new home they can be as transient as you and move on with little to no warning. One of my good friends over here has made the decision to move back to England, and for good reasons. I don't really have a lot of friends over here more acquaintances and buddies if that makes sense. So its always a shame when you lose a good friend. That was one of the hardest things about working at L'abri in switzerland was the constant turn over of friends. Those of us who lived and worked there for an extended period of time often found it very difficult to make new friends or invest anything in the new students because we knew that in a few weeks they would be gone only to be replaced by a brand new crop of students seemingly identical...

Also, the rainy season has really begun to pick up speed. I haven't seen a good sunny day in a few weeks and almost every night it rains... hard. Last night was unbelievable. One thing I don't like about the apartment I live in right now is that it has a tin roof which means that when it is pouring down rain outside I can't hear anything inside. Not the tv no matter how much I turn up the volume or phone calls. I am reduced to using my noise cancelling headphones.