Melody, Thanks for sharing your memories of Emily....Yes, she always had time for a friend.
Tonght I was talking to Lisa, another of Emily's friends, and she said that Emily left her a voice message before her surgery and her last words were, "I love you, Lisa."
I hope you do learn Arabic and travel, Melody, after all, Emily thought you should. Maybe in her being taken away from us, we will be more greatly spurned onward to do what God is gently calling us to do.