3 weeks!
Woah it´s been a week since I last posted. My apologies to anyone who cares... like... my parents. I have been more busy in the last week which is great, I love being busy. But not too busy by any means, just comfortably so. I don´t have time right now to write up a fully account but I just wrote a summary of my last few days to my parents and I figured I might as well copy and past it on here. I have little illusion that many of you will be all that interested in a day by day rundown of my last 5 days... but if you are.... by all means enjoy! I have some pictures that I will post soon for the less reading inclined ones of you out there, don´t worry.
My life since friday:
On friday Bethany and I had a really nice evening of fun just for the 2 of us. we went to the mall and we went to the movies and then we splurged big time and had sundays from Baskin Robbins. When we got back we walked into Bastion to find one of the kids Bethany´s friends with and endd up hanging out in the park for quite a while with a group of the boys and I invited them to our house for dinner on monday. The on saturday I helped out with the kids club in the morning and then we went over to her parents house for lunch and to watch the football match of German vs. Portugal for 3rd place and in the evening we came back for youth group for the older youth in the evening. That was fun. You know those crazy youth group games we play where you have to like eat something out of a daiper or something? Mom knows what I´m talking about. Well they were doing that but the boy and girl playing wouldn´t touch theirs and it was awkward so I jumped up and started chowing down on the rice pudding in the girl´s one and then the boy joined in and plyaed too... I still one though. It was funny though cuz this is the older youth so they´re like 16 and up, my age included. I thought you might like that story. Oh and we played the game where you have to eat the marshmellow off of the toothpick in the mouth of the person in front of you and they lined us up boy-girl. Funny. So then on Sunday there was church in the morning and i hung around the house during the day and then there was bible study for the park boys in the evening and we talked about drugs with them, an interesting topic as many of them still use drugs and one of them actually still sells them, but others don´t do it any more at all... so it was interesting to see their reactions and stuff.
Then on monday I taught at school till 1 and then went to the grocery store and then cooked and cooked all day for the boys who were coming over that night. I made home made pizza and potato salad and bought chips and pop and for dessert i made brownies to go with ice cream and bannanas. An amazing American meal. They wanted me to make them North American food... so I did... it was fun.
\nAnd then yesterday I taught and bethany and I worked on getting the kids to write support letters as we do every day and then I spent all afternoon at another missionary couple´s house who live very near us and have 4 young boys ages 3-9 and me and the mom, Janet, made stationary for the kids to write the final drafts of their support letters on and then I joined them for dinner and at night one of the park boys Alexis (my favorite one but don´t tell the others) came over and we went running because he is training for a "marathon" on Sautraday which is actually not a marathon but is only 5.5 kilometros but it´s a big deal for the kids racing in it. We´re going running again tonight i think.
Whew so that´s what I´ve been up to. It´s really good to be busy. Oh yeah! and TODAY I met Bethany´s mom lillian at the school early at 7:30 and Nikki came too and we talked and prayed together. Then I taught and then at 11:30 I went with one of the kindergarten girls and visisted her family for a couple hours. I just got back from there. That was neat. I´ll write more about it on my blog soon because I have a lot of pictures becuase I took pictures of their family and then let the 3 little girls play with my camera. It was neat though I brought along a bible and the 8 year old girl read like several chapters from it out loud. Very neat. and I´m going to try and find a bible for them becuase they don´t have one.
The end!
My life since friday:
On friday Bethany and I had a really nice evening of fun just for the 2 of us. we went to the mall and we went to the movies and then we splurged big time and had sundays from Baskin Robbins. When we got back we walked into Bastion to find one of the kids Bethany´s friends with and endd up hanging out in the park for quite a while with a group of the boys and I invited them to our house for dinner on monday. The on saturday I helped out with the kids club in the morning and then we went over to her parents house for lunch and to watch the football match of German vs. Portugal for 3rd place and in the evening we came back for youth group for the older youth in the evening. That was fun. You know those crazy youth group games we play where you have to like eat something out of a daiper or something? Mom knows what I´m talking about. Well they were doing that but the boy and girl playing wouldn´t touch theirs and it was awkward so I jumped up and started chowing down on the rice pudding in the girl´s one and then the boy joined in and plyaed too... I still one though. It was funny though cuz this is the older youth so they´re like 16 and up, my age included. I thought you might like that story. Oh and we played the game where you have to eat the marshmellow off of the toothpick in the mouth of the person in front of you and they lined us up boy-girl. Funny. So then on Sunday there was church in the morning and i hung around the house during the day and then there was bible study for the park boys in the evening and we talked about drugs with them, an interesting topic as many of them still use drugs and one of them actually still sells them, but others don´t do it any more at all... so it was interesting to see their reactions and stuff.
Then on monday I taught at school till 1 and then went to the grocery store and then cooked and cooked all day for the boys who were coming over that night. I made home made pizza and potato salad and bought chips and pop and for dessert i made brownies to go with ice cream and bannanas. An amazing American meal. They wanted me to make them North American food... so I did... it was fun.
\nAnd then yesterday I taught and bethany and I worked on getting the kids to write support letters as we do every day and then I spent all afternoon at another missionary couple´s house who live very near us and have 4 young boys ages 3-9 and me and the mom, Janet, made stationary for the kids to write the final drafts of their support letters on and then I joined them for dinner and at night one of the park boys Alexis (my favorite one but don´t tell the others) came over and we went running because he is training for a "marathon" on Sautraday which is actually not a marathon but is only 5.5 kilometros but it´s a big deal for the kids racing in it. We´re going running again tonight i think.
Whew so that´s what I´ve been up to. It´s really good to be busy. Oh yeah! and TODAY I met Bethany´s mom lillian at the school early at 7:30 and Nikki came too and we talked and prayed together. Then I taught and then at 11:30 I went with one of the kindergarten girls and visisted her family for a couple hours. I just got back from there. That was neat. I´ll write more about it on my blog soon because I have a lot of pictures becuase I took pictures of their family and then let the 3 little girls play with my camera. It was neat though I brought along a bible and the 8 year old girl read like several chapters from it out loud. Very neat. and I´m going to try and find a bible for them becuase they don´t have one.
The end!
posted by Pamela Joy at 12:08 PM
4 Comments:
Oh pam, I'm so glad for you. I can just hear how happy you are in your writting. And I am drawin back to the days when we would sit and taurenhof and blog so our friends back home would know what was going on. Now I just feel a little bit of saddness and the distance between us. I'm so happy for you though please say hi to bethany and give her a hug for me. bye for now.
actualy i am not macking on any girls. i am afraid to say that i am not doing good and wound up with a broken heart and have absolutley no interest in any body but the girl in new zealand. i would love to tell you more but i am afraid that i cannot get into it openly on the internet
*waves* hi pamela. :)
pammmmmmela! I got home last night from Mexico and when i checked your blog i'm like ...3 weeks?! Oh yeah i guess i was gone for two of those. Time flippin flies it's crazy! I'm so glad that you are well and are enjoying many crazy adventures! your meal sounded amazing! Thanks for writting lots and about your days, i love to hear what you've been up to ...also i love you! There was a twu girl that went to Mexico with us and she totally reminded me of you!! I was like pam?! ...sadly not. When do you come home??
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