June 22, 2011

So, today was the last day in the Philippines. It's hot, buggy, and I'm painfully sunburned.

We went snorkeling yesterday on our day off. I really don't get it. I put on sunscreen, but I still got fried. Why????? We saw lots of fishes.

I can now rank myself up with Andrew Zimmerman, the host of Strange Eats on the Travel Channel, I think. I ate balloot, spelling unknown, first half sounds like the first half of balloon, second like the second part of flute. It's an egg of a chicken taken before it hatches and boiled. One of our guys downed the whole thing, gagging. I only could do a small piece, and another guy finished mine, only gagging once. It took me five tries to finally keep it down.

The other thing I ate was raw sea urchin. While snorkeling, out boat drives dove and gathered them, and the four boys and I tried them. They were good, salty and fishy, not much to them.

June 19, 2011

Tired, eaten by mosquitoes, that's today for you.

We worked with kids again yesterday, then the 17+ youth group. Today we went to church, did a kids program, practiced dramas, and preformed for the 15-17 year old youth group.

Lots of rain, flash floods, and geckos.

We went to see Green Lantern and had to move seats because the rain leaked in and flooded the floor level.

June 18, 2011

So, over the past few days we've worked with a ton of children. It's been railing a ton. I hand-washed my first ever load of clothes.

Philippines

So, we've done some stuff in the Philippines mainly working with kids. we did a prayer walk through the slums. We did some dramas and puppets for the kids. We have another kids ministry tomorrow, jail ministry the next day, and more stuff after that.

Finally!!!!

Well, I'm finally updating after two weeks of travel. Now that we're gone, I can finally get on to keep you all updated. The country we were in is very restrictive of internet access, you do that math.

Well, we did three things. and orphanage, a foster home and classes.

Orphanage

We went to an orphanage an hour outside the city. These three women give their time to children that people leave on their doorstep. We spent a few days there, playing with the kids.

As we had nap time on the final day, one of the women came up and said there were government people coming and we needed to go next door. We spent a hour and a half at her house playing phase 10, which I won. They served us dinner and hopped on a bus back to town.

Foster home

My group went to the foster home that housed HIV orphans. The two children we met both had HIV. The boy and his sister, who was as a different foster home. The other girl was adopted by the family who started everything.

We also had classes on Missions. It was awesome.