Week of 22 January, 2012

Finally caught up to this week.
We took a taxi ride from Birtamode to the border of Nepal and india. then a taxi ride t\froim the immigration office to the train station. Then a train to Kolkata. The train ride was long, but fun. the scenery was beautiful. I started reading my Bible from Gnensis on the train. We arrived in Kolkata at 3:20 am, but didn't get to the guestnouse until 5 am because the taxi drivers got lost, like, 50 times. Our first dinner here was Subway at South City Mall. It reminds me of Hong Kong. Then Amyjane and I got gelato. Amazingness. The next day the team split in half for ministry. Dinah, Sam, Aush, Kate and I are Eagle Strike and we went to a village that is all Hindu.

Week of 15 January, 2012

Again, a very busy week, with only one day of Internet access on which I was dying after a puke fest.

So, from Kathmandu, to Birtamod, Nepal, should only be a 15 hour bus ride. Ours was a 19 hour bus ride of death. The driver was speeding up and down mountains like the devil himself was on our tail. It brings a whole new meaning to "I saw my life flash before my eyes.' But as Dinah say, "My salvation is assured." After finally arriving in Birtamod, our host Zoell took us to the guest house. His wife Issa is super sweet. Their two kids, Ava and Avi are sweet too. Ava is a pro Uno player. The weather in Birtamod greatly differed from that of Kathmandu. Where Kathmandu was cold, Birtamod was pleasantly warm. Birtamod is smaller that Kathmandu and the people are more friendly. About the third day there. everyone got sick. There was a puke fest almost every night. I thought I was going to die. It was amazing.
There was a day when we went to a village, and it was hard no considering it an epic fail, because we were rejected so many times. But the first day, Kim, Dinah, Kate, and Lydia went out and 3 guys became Christians!
We did the Everything drama four times. I don't think many people understood it, but it was still a good crowd drawer.
Zoell's church had a youth day, which was fun. We did the drama, taught about hearing God's voice, and intercession. Then we just chilled with some of the people.

Week of 9 January, 2012

Sorry for not posting an update in so long. The week I am about to write about was very busy.

We were in Kathmandu, Nepal. We did a kid's camp for local kid's and about 60 kids showed up. We did some fun action songs, which were a big hit. The entire week there was a powerful presence of the Holy Spirit. 5 kids became Christians. In the evenings, when we went back to where we were staying (an apartment over the Way Cafe), we would have a team meeting, then have an amazing dinner. Amyjane an I started going into the kitchen at the Cafe and helping to clean the dishes, because India A was also staying there, so they had a lot of dishes to clean. The cooks were hilarious about it. At first they tried to make us leave, but we wouldn't let them push us out. When everything was done, they gave us wonderfully hot milk tea, which is delicious. Then Eagle Eagle Condor got to learn the Everything drama. (YouTube it). We, being an awesome team. learned it in one day. I got to be Death/ Depression. I got my creepy on. It was fun.

It may not seem like we did much, but after 3 weeks, it's kind of hard to remember a lot of details.

The First Days

So here I am in Kathmandu, Nepal. We beat jet lag in a day. Not much has happened in the five days we've been here, but next week, Team Eagle Eagle Condor is running a 3-day kids camp. Then we head to Chitwan, where we will be doing evangelism. Then on to India.
The girls on the team went out yesterday to buy our punjabis, which is the traditional Indian outfit for women. Don't confuse it with a sari, because they're different. Bing it. :) Then we went to the stupa, which is basically a temple with a market around it, to shop.
Today, we went to the stupa again and we did prayer walking and evangelism. There's a lot of Bhuddist influence here.
It was easy to slip back into the China habits. The roads are crazy. To cross, you just start walking, and act like you know what you're doing.
The food here is amazing. It makes me wonder why we can't have food like this in the States.

I still need about $1800 for the rest of my outreach fund. So be praying. If I don't get it, I will be sent home early.

Sorry I can't elaborate on much right now, but I can't really spend too much time on the internet, as we have on laptop for ten people. I'll try to have a new update once a week.

And Boredom Sets In

So, we LAX was a success. The we sat around in Heathrow Airport in London for 9 hours. Most of us slept. I know that I slept for 4 hours. Then we flew 6 hours to Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, which is where I am right now. We got here at 6 am on Sunday and we hung out at Bahrain International Airport for 6 hours. We boarded the plane to Kathmandu and halfway there we had to turn around due to weather making the airport in Kathmandu invisible. So the airline put us up in a hotel for the night. We had to get up at 1 am so we could get to the airport for our 3:15 flight, but when we got here we found out that the flight ha been delayed until around 5 am. We'll be hanging in the airport for the rest of our lives. No big deal. It's actually quite fun. Our team quote book/journal has so many quotes already. We are going to have the best quote book of all the outreach teams. And our new tickets may have us sitting in first class, which is freakin' awesome. Something really funny right now, the screen on which I am typing is in Arabic. I think Arabic is a beautiful language. Both the writing and the speech. My love of languages is taking over and I now want to learn Arabic, because I'm insane. And the service on the planes is amazing. They always make sure you are okay and they are really nice. On the flight to Kathmandu, we had our first curry. It was super good. This has to be the most random blog post I have ever written.  So now wyou know where I am and what I'm doing. I have to now tell you the the title to this post isn't entirely accurate, we aren't really that bored