Wednesday, August 26, 2009

All In a Day


Today I saw four interesting things: evidences that I live in Cambodia.

1. Early this morning, a few minutes past 6 AM, I was making pasta for my lunch. I had set the noodle to boil, when Kate walked by and asked if I had put herbs in the noodles. "No" Of course not. She laughed and told me to look in the pot. There were little black dots.
"What's that?" Weevils. They were bugs. In the pasta.
We, having lived in Cambodia for a year now and used to eating bugs, spooned them out. (they were boiled and dead) As Kate was pouring on the spaghetti sauce, she saw a few more. She attempted getting them out, but eventually she just said, "I'll just put pepper on tops so you can't tell."
It was good pasta.

2. I drove (my super cute moto) up to school, and outside school there were a few vendors walking by. They were pushing bicycles. The bicycles were heavily loaded down with their wares. They were selling rattan baskets and plastic baskets. One guy stopped to fix his flip flop. I took a picture of him. It's above.

3. After school I stopped at a gas station to get my weekly $2 worth of gas. I opened the gas tank on my moto, to find MAGGOTS! sick! I wanted to throw up! How did they get there. They started crawling around my moto! I didn't want to get back on it. My head started to itch a little when I thought of getting back on the moto.

4. 20 Dead chickens in the middle of the road. The disgusting creatures were about to get de-feathered and chopped to be sold in the market tomorrow. The point is... they were being cut up in the middle of a disgusting, filth filled street. No meat from the market for me. I'm thinking of becoming a vegetarian!

All in a day in Cambodia!

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Lightning Deaths

Deadly Strikes

Lightning has killed 113 people in Cambodia since January!

Follow Up- Youth Group



There was good reason to be wary of going to Youth Group!!
They were crazy!
There were at least 50 middle school kids there! Chaos has a new definition!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Rejoice in the Lord always




Why is it the day that you need to rejoice in the Lord, you don't feel like it?
The morning I'm supposed to lead devotions everything goes wrong. It sets me on edge, and I feel frustrated. Then I'm supposed to walk in a room of 35 people and tell them how happy I am that God died for me.

Today I am supposed to start working with the youth group. Tonight will be the first night of Solar youth group this school year. I'm supposed to go and help with the worship band, but I don't want to. I had a horrible day at school, and don't want to see another kid for a very long time. My impulse is to stay home and avoid kids because of my rotten day.
I don't believe that it's coincidence.


(these are pictures of my school, HOPE)

Pictures




I stopped on the side of the road to take the "Fast Food" picture. I was thinking what an interesting concept food-on-wheels is. As I took the picture, two girls watching me wanted me to take their picture too! Then two turned into four, and four turned into a large group.
They all worked at the car wash that I had stopped in front of. And they all wanted a picture with me.

(P.S. I look like a GIANT next to them! Really! I'm huge compared to their 80lb. frame!)

Fast Food



Fast food is an interesting concept. It's food for the impatient. Well in every culture there are impatient people. It just so happens that our fast food doesn't look like your fast food.
In the absence of a Drive-Thru we have a Drive-By. This would be a small food cart that is driven, cycled, or walked around.
It's still fast food.
This particular Drive-By is glass noodles. The cart is pushed on three wheels.