Susana's Birthday
Hiding in front of her house with the cake we waited breathlessly for Clarissa to come back and open the door for us so that we could hide in Susana's room and spring out to surprise her.
The lights were all off and our lightsticks (a.k.a. mobile phones) were lit and ready. "Shall we sing 'Happy Birthday' or 'Oh Susanna'?" I said and Andrew giggled.
A moment of great shock and anguish when Clarissa got a phone call saying that Susana had gone to the computer clusters and we clutched each other wondering what to do with Clarissa lamenting in her pretty Brazilian accent.
And as we were holding each other the object of our grief came in unconsciously and stood framed in the doorway for a moment.
We recovered ourselves and shooed her out frantically, switched off the lights and sang happy birthday when she entered again.
And Brazilian music was playing in the background with those beautiful beats and everyone was sitting around chatting in perfect harmony.
Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, all happily nattering away as though there weren't any differences between us.
It was a beautiful time, one of those moments I wish I could freeze and look back on, over and over again, and the only way I can do that is by writing it all down here.
And ending the night with prayer for Susana and hopes of going to Brazil on our repective honeymoons.
Thank You, that even though we're so different we can have so much to talk about and so much in common. Thank You for the unity in everyone's hearts, and thank You that each of us has a part to play.
The lights were all off and our lightsticks (a.k.a. mobile phones) were lit and ready. "Shall we sing 'Happy Birthday' or 'Oh Susanna'?" I said and Andrew giggled.
A moment of great shock and anguish when Clarissa got a phone call saying that Susana had gone to the computer clusters and we clutched each other wondering what to do with Clarissa lamenting in her pretty Brazilian accent.
And as we were holding each other the object of our grief came in unconsciously and stood framed in the doorway for a moment.
We recovered ourselves and shooed her out frantically, switched off the lights and sang happy birthday when she entered again.
And Brazilian music was playing in the background with those beautiful beats and everyone was sitting around chatting in perfect harmony.
Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, all happily nattering away as though there weren't any differences between us.
It was a beautiful time, one of those moments I wish I could freeze and look back on, over and over again, and the only way I can do that is by writing it all down here.
And ending the night with prayer for Susana and hopes of going to Brazil on our repective honeymoons.
Thank You, that even though we're so different we can have so much to talk about and so much in common. Thank You for the unity in everyone's hearts, and thank You that each of us has a part to play.
1 Comments:
Just goes to show, we are all peas in the great pod.
'Oh Susanna' is a great song! Used to love singing that when I was a kid. ;)
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