Last Update

So, this will be my last blog update for a while. Hopefully, I'm going on outreach on Friday. We fly to London, then we head to Nepal and India. I won't have much chance to get on a computer, but you can still email or Facebook me. I just won't get it for a while. I still need around $2700, but I'm praying and trusting that God will get it here.

Ciao!

Unimaginable Changes

I've changed so much,
I've become the person
That people want to be with,
The one that's not popular,
But not the one that's unpopular,
I'm right where I need to be,
On my way to
More changes,
Unimaginable changes.

Christmas Break

Christmas break we all thought,
Would be boring,
As somewhere we don't want to go,
But it's not,
We are bored,
But not fully bored.
We bake,
And a YWAM special,
We watch movies.

Outreach

Outreach is only 2 weeks away. I still need $3146 by Friday.  Ryan needs $3449, Kate needs $832, and Lydia needs $1962. Some of us are a little freaked out and worried, but most of us have no doubt that the money will come in. They said the they have only had to send one person home in past DTS's because they didn't have there money for outreach in. We are all getting nervous as the 31st gets closer, which is when we are leaving. But we're more excited than nervous. We'll be flying on the same plane as India A and South Africa are. We'll be in London for 10 hours, on New Year's Eve, but we probably won't leave the airport, since we'd have to go through immigration. But it's still London! Then India A and Eagle Eagle Condor will fly to Nepal together and we'll be staying in the same place for about 2 weeks, then India A heads on to India. We stay in Nepal for another week, then head to India on a train (enter sarcastic 'fun' here). Then we stay in Calcutta for three weeks and then New Delhi for three weeks. Then we come back to LA and have a week of debrief and we have a graduation ceremony thingy and we all go home.

Best Small Group Time Ever

Tonight, my small group went to The Cheesecake Factory. The food there is super yummy. We had to wait for a while before we could get a table, because it's super popular. But when we did get our table, we were each handed a menu the size of a novel. Rebekah, Emily and I all order burgers and fries, Alissa ordered a pasta dish, and Dani ordered a steak. About ten minutes later, our waiter brought out the burgers and the pasta. He also seemed a bit nervous. Someone in the kitchen had dropped Dani's steak, so she would have to wait about five more minutes, which was fine. There was so much food on all of our plates that Dani, Alissa and I brought the last of it home with us. Then we ordered Key Lime cheesecake and Godiva Chocolate cheesecake. The chocolate one was so rich, we couldn't finish it, but the Key Lime was really refreshing, so it was easy to eat, and it tasted like heaven in pie form on a plate. And Dani's food was free, since it was dropped and she had to wait for so long. So it was a great evening, filled with laughter, funny faces, and interesting conversation topics.

Eagle Eagle Condor Team Bonding Time

Last night, Eagle Eagle Condor got to run the YWAM Christmas Tree Lot. It was so fun, although we were there from 9 am all the way to 10 pm. We sold 65 trees and all the tips we made (which amounted to $127) goes towards our outreach. We also learned a lot about each other. Somethings were too much information, but I guess it was good to learn it now, rather than on outreach, where we might not be able to handle it. It got really cold around 6 pm and we were all freezing our tail feathers off. Amyjane and I started penguin huddles. When we didn't have customers, of course. We eventually started a fire in a fire pit they have there. We spent our free time huddled around the warmth, laughing and telling crazy stories. We weren't bored once. Customers came in cluster. One vehicle would show up and before we knew it, it was all hands on deck and backed up, because twenty thousand other people would show up. But around 1 pm we settled into a good rhythm. Some people wanted to be left alone, and then got upset when we said that we weren't allowed to lower the price on a tree. Some of them left, but we are the cheapest lot in the town and we have the nicest trees. When we got home around 10:30, we were all so tired, we couldn't walk straight, so we staggered, all looking like drunks, to our trailers and I'm guessing everyone fell into their bed without bothering to change their clothes. That's what I did. the only thing I managed to go was take my shoes off.