'80s Neon leggings, Teased hair, and Blue eyeshadow

This week, one guy celebrated his 21st birthday, so we threw a surprise party for him that everyone, including him, knew about. The theme was '80s disco,' so we all got excited (the girls, especially) and dolled up for the occasion. People sported side ponytails, bright eyeshadow, pink cheeks and lips, teased hair, one-shoulder big t-shirts, leggings, legwarmers, plus all kinds of random stuff thrown together.

It was so much fun - one girl made a DJ turntable cake, which looked amazing, and we mostly talked, danced, and karaoke-d the night away to crazy 80s music. I love playing dress up and partying - makes me miss college days a whole lot.

My friend found these amazing '80s shades in church. Awe-some.

Friends from Austria and Moldova.

Friends from Taiwan and Brazil.

Our new team member's outfit was awesome (so was his pose in this picture). He claimed he thought the theme was 'awkward' because he didn't want to admit he didn't possess any 80s clothes. And yes, those are his actual pajama pants. haha.

Friends from Germany and the US.

The only guy from England at our program (and he looks a little like Mr. Bean, too). He's super sweet and nice.

My team - Mauritius, Singapore, Korea, US, Finland :)

The amazing DJ turntable cake.

Birthday boy :)

Starting the partayyy. Love these girls.

The whole group... trying to squeeze into the photo together.

For some reason, people like to tease my teammate and I as if we're couples with the guys next to us. But really, it's just harmless fun.

It's already been a month?!

*Photo montage begins (in random order)*

 

We are fed good homecooked food... sometimes :)

 

Performing a korean song during International Night

 

Random singing session in our 12-bed room

 

Practicing our dance for International Night

 

Dancing on stage

 

'Playing' our instruments as part of the dance - guitar, piano, drums, flute

 

Singing at the town square for our outreach

 Training week: Learning rope magic tricks in class for evangelism

Practicing magic tricks

 

Playing the drums

 

Our first trip to Birmingham - at the arts festival during a reggae concert

 

Some of the girls at the arts festival

 

During our mini mission outreach we had an International Night event

 

We did a dance together for the event - 'I love Jesus' dance

 

We went to another town during the mini mission outreach to do street evangelism

 

Going out for my birthday

 

Dinner at the center with the girls

 

Learning how to use puppets to do drama and songs in class

 

One of the guys' farewell party at the pizza place

 

Sleeping on the church floor at the mini mission outreach

 

Lots of sheep in the towns here

 

We got to take a 3 minute shower twice in 5 days during the mini mission outreach

 

We learned how to do face painting

 

During International Night, this was one of the drama/mimes we performed

 

Another drama performed on stage

 

The beginning of our 'I love Jesus' dance

 

Still dancing

 

And dancing

 

And dancing

 

And dancing

 

And dancing

 

We stuck a bottle in her curly hair and tied it around the bottle - it was awesome

 

They brought me breakfast in bed on my birthday :)

 

Then we had a photoshoot after dinner at the pizza place on my birthday

 

Yes, we take a lot of pictures. All the time.

 

We went to someone's house and made pizzas with mushroom, corn, ham, tomatoes, tuna, pepperoni, capsicums, and lots of cheese. Yum.

 

Karaoke-ing in the pub

Dancing in the pub

 

Good times :)