It has been a long but fulfilling week. It is finally starting to feel like 'home' , or regular life. We got a schedule ... I find that I really appreciate schedules.
Well we spent a lot of time out at the Orphanage this week. Good news from Sinoan and that she got accepted to do her DTS with U of N here in Battambang. This will be a life changing opportunity for her. We started helping them build a garden. It is starting from ground zero. This week consisted of carrying dirt (clay, garbage, concrete, brick, rock sub-soil mixture) on plastic bags to cover the entire area of the designated area (about 20 meters long 6 meters wide). It was slow. Next week hopefully it will be ready to add the top-soil and manure. We are working under the Pastor's discretion... making it his project... not ours. We just get to help make it happen! Then we had an afternoon spent putting on a program for the kids.
Afternoons are spent at the student center. I have been a regular at a level 3 and 4 English class with Sam and this week we got to teach for God day. We did a little skit and then I shared my testimony (story on how I know God and where He's brought me). They asked questions... I took that as a good sign. They are a fun class and the teacher Ngim is great, a ball of joy. The other day I was correcting their homework and I pronounced 4-thirty with what must have been a very midwest accent and the students first couldn't understand and then my accent had to be explained... in the end Ngim ended up telling them to keep saying thirty how they say it.
Everyday we eat very well. Sam and I are both vegetarians and so the cooks (we have 2 khmer girls who are amazing) we have always prepare us a special vege dish. Some of the best have been a peanut khmer curry soup, the vege soups, and these egg flat omlete things. Most days it ends up looking (and tasting) better then the full on meat dishes the others get every meal. We also get fruit for each meal... all sorts of fruit. I find my favorite so far is pineaple and dragon fruit (a crazy pink fruit with a white inside with small black seeds, texture similar to a kiwi but very light taste).
I saw a guy with a Favre 4-ever shirt the other day and I was shocked!! It made my day really! Favre is even in Cambodia.... I will keep my opinion to myself....
Clothes washing has been a big ordeal also.... I am someone who would save up 2 months of laundry to take to my mom's house so that when I visited it would magically be done when the visit was over... Now if I don't handwash my clothes every week... I run out. It is still not my favorite.
The heat here is dangerous. The Cambodian people though prize white skin so much that whitening creams and wearing long sleaves, gloves, hats, even socks here is prevelant to make their skin white... complete contrast to the States...
We also set up a drip line out at Seangs parents house yesterday. A drip line is a black house with little one-way valves that is helpful to reduce the work of watering (which they still do by watering can) and to conserve water (in short supply in the dry season January-May). We made 4 new beds and planted Corn in one and long beans in the other 3, covered them with straw and now they are left to grow! May God bless those little plants.
This is life... 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. we are just living here doing the daily work here in Battambang.
Please keep praying for me and that I can hear from God and have consistent quiet-times!
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