Today, Decy and the girls left for Indonesia.  I went with them to the airport, but had to leave them at the curb ... our kilo wasn't authorized to park at the Luanda airport.  So many emotions. So much pain. So difficult to deal with over the last few days.  We did, however, have a little bit of closure ... one glimpse that we had made an impact ... however small it was.

Don't know if I mentioned it or not in a previous blog, but Decy recently designed a hash t-shirt that was "very Angolan" using their flag colors and one of her drawings of 3 Angolan women carrying baskets.  On the way to the airport, we passed a creek bed where hundreds of Angolans with colorful plastic buckets wash their clothes and take water back to their houses.  Today .... as we passed by ... Thasya saw one of the Angolans wearing Decy's hash t-shirt.  Don't know who they were. Don't know how they got it .... but part of us ... was there ... in that creek bed .....

The above pic is not intended to offend anyone ... it is merely Decy's creativity associated with what she saw and felt here in Angola.

Decy said her final goodbyes to most people yesterday, even one of the kilo drivers was crying.  Decy touched so many lives.  Decy made a difference to hundreds of people: Angolans, Portuguese, Brazilians, Colombians, Thai's, Malaysians, Indonesians, English, Bangladeshis, Indians, Pakistani's, Korean, Chinese,  French, Italian, Lebanese, American, Venezuelan, and many others ....  she will be sorely missed by all.

As for me, I still have 4 weeks of work here. I am nervous, however, as the item I am working on is very important to the company.  I am concerned that either my trip to Indonesia will be delayed ... or I will have to come back to Angola on a business trip basis.  I already miss my family ... and I want to be with them to help build our new life together in Indonesia.  I belong at Decy's side.

.... Stela, if you see this, thanks for meeting us at the airport ... I know it touched Decy and the girls very much ... me too.

ciao ciao