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Morning reflections: safely arrived.

The breeze is rustling the palm branches, and even in the shade I feel the heat of the day. I am sat writing this on the sofa on the porch of the hospitality house here on the base. The same sofa we had at the restoration farm which brings back good memories from those years ago.

After a shower in unheated water (which isn’t really necessary anyways because of the climate) I had a papaya for breakfast. There is nothing like eating fruit in a tropical country where it was probably picked closer to the matured stage than when it needs to be exported for many hours before it reaches the super market. It was delicious.

My flight was uneventful. I had a couple of free seats next to me which was lovely in a pretty  packed plane. On arrival good friends greeted me at the airport and we drove to the base in the cooler (read: 27 degrees Celsius) evening air in the kombi. After finally managing to sleep, I slept well, feeling the air of the fan and the occasional mosquito biting me. But that’s life. That’s what it’s like here in Fortaleza.

And so here I am. Getting ready to adjust to the climate and what God has for me in this time. More blog posts will no doubt follow.

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