If you actually look like your visa photo...

There's a wonderful quote by Sir Vivian Fuchs saying if you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel. Well, my passport photo is better than it could be--my visa photo for Brazil, however, is pretty horrendous.

I'm fairly certain that this photo indicates some severe grumpiness that may or may not indicate possible violence. I know that I won't become violent, but this photo is not a good gauge of that. I've had to supply passport photos for other visas before, but this is the first time said photo has actually appeared on the visa. If I had known this, I probably would've made more of an effort to not look like an ill-tempered white girl.

BUT I have my visa and that's all that matters!!! Carl and Scott have their visas, at least I think Scott has his visa--he's there already, so I'm assuming he has--but Liliana has not yet received hers. So now she has to change her flight and it's all because her visa service is stupid and screwed the pooch on all of it. So she won't be in Brazil until Saturday. Not cool.

As for me, I am just 36 hours, 30 pages of writing, two research papers, one clean room and 20 hours of flight time away from Sao Paulo and the next 9 months in Brazil.

Last night my parents hosted a bunch of people over from church for a wonderful "going-away" party, and it was an awesome time! Such a blessing to have such a wonderful church family.

The next nine months should be a very exciting time--I'm extremely curious to see why God has led me to Brazil and what God has in store for me and my team.