I have to say, everyone involved did an incredible job of keeping the whole thing a secret, from my community mates and other friends in Tacna who found out, to my parents, to all my Holy Cross friends who knew. At some point in February they got in touch with my community mates, and then everyone was in on the secret except me. I was on Mes de MisiĆ³n at the time so they had to book their tickets without consulting me first, and then they just decided not to tell me at all. It turns out that the 4 of them started talking about coming to visit me when they saw each other over Christmas, and pretty much as soon as my parents got back from their trip in early January my friends got in touch with them to start plotting. Eventually I was able to move again and we all hugged and cried and it was beautiful, and Seamus and Ashlen told me they had already planned things for the rest of my classes for that day so I was free to go be with my friends. I was so confused, trying to piece things together in my head but couldn't do it. I just stopped dead in my tracks and kept yelling at them, "But how did you GET here?!" (Seamus was actually filming me at this point so I'll try to put that video on here someday). I didn't even cry or hug them right away when I first saw them I was in such shock. Somebody here has almost the exact same fish pillow as Emma." Then as I rounded the corner, wondering what the heck Ashlen needed to talk to me about so urgently, I found none other than Emma Pace (it was in fact her fish pillow), Jeana Greco, Alex Swiatocha and Avanti Peters standing there, right in front of my face, at my school in Tacna, Peru!! You might ask if I was expecting a visit in Tacna from my best friends? NO! I had absolutely no freaking idea that any of them was coming! I mean I was hoping that someone would come visit me at some point this year, but up to now no one had really said anything to me about making travel plans so I didn't think anyone was gonna come. I remember thinking to myself, "Hm that's weird. As soon as I stepped outside I saw something resembling Emma Pace's fish pillow that she takes with her everywhere, poking its head around the corner of the building. She didn't tell me, just responded with, "I just really need to talk to you, can you please come out here?" So I followed her outside and around the corner of the primary building. They were being a little unruly as per usual so I was probably yelling at someone and starting to get kind of frustrated, when suddenly my housemate Ashlen (who also teaches at Miguel Pro) appears in the doorway, with a look on her face like she was fighting back tears, and says, "Mo can I talk to you for a minute?" I seriously thought someone had died, she looked so upset, and so I asked her what was wrong, my first thought being I can't leave these hellions by themselves unless it's a real emergency. It was Monday afternoon April 4th, approximately 1:45pm, and I'm in the middle of teaching 3rd grade just like any other Monday afternoon.
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