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Saturday, 21 February 2009
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Just a few pics of the people i hung out with the past few weekends.
The saturday night Gloria, Rosa, Jr., and I went to SMBI to visit Sharilee and Brandon.
And a pic or two of the Night of Music weekend.
a few of us went out to applebee's thursday night with some of the guys
who had just come into lancaster.
Gloria, Steph and I on way out to SMBI for NOM
ok so i have way more pics but didn't feel like taking time to upload more....
later
Monday, 24 November 2008
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Just a few random pics from last term. in three more weeks i am going to be heading home, which makes me very excited, but also makes me sad...
A few pics from the elephant camp we went to one saturday...
Girl's night out!!
Soft Pretzels!!! thank-you Krista & Delight
We had Cultural Day!!
This is our mentoring group...muslim and thai
Hmm...one of the guys made a wrong step on the roof and fell right into the girl's dorm...in the shower no less..
Thankfully he was ok just had a nasty cut on his foot...there was blood everywhere... he fell about 17 foot...
Just random pics of people...
Crazy boy !
Happy Thanksgiving to you all... we are planning on having our turkey tonight!! :)
Kim
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
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Of Go-Karts & Festivals
Hello to everyone, hope your life is going as well as mine is. I had a very nice weekend. It was the first time i got to relax since we got back from Isreal and i was exhausted. Saturday afternoon a group of us went go-karting. It was alot of fun. I had only gone once before in the states. The go-karts we got supposedly went up to 90k which i am told is roughtly 45-50mph.
Gloria, Steph, and I ready to go. I think my suit looks like giant pajamas
If you stopped going you had to wait to a guy came with another cart and pushed you.
3-person pile-up Jr. wrecking in front of everyone watching
Saturday night the four of us who go to the English Centre for ministry nights plus Lorita went with some of the Centre people to a Buddhist Festival. If i understand it is to release bad luck/sin/or something and bring good luck. so they send these lantern/air balloon type of things. It was beautiful but very sad. There were so many people there. they estimate around 10,000 people come out.
Homemade Icecream! MMM!! A Field full of hundreds of torches which is
what they use to set off the lanterns
Lotus flower - very signifcant to Buddhism A Big Buddha
Some Buddhist monks setting off a lantern Alot of Lanterns floating off into the sky
So that was about the extent of my weekend. Sunday night one of the women invited us girls to her house for a girls party which was very cool....well gotta go finish homework...have a nice week everyone
Friday, 07 November 2008
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Isreal!!
So i had the incredible opportunity to spend 12 days in Isreal! It was a great experience. A group of 8 of us went. We spent the first weekend in Jerusalem. I am not sure what i was expecting but it was alot different. It was beautiful. After that we spent the week in Palestine. We helped teach english twice and the rest of the time we basically spent time interacting with the people. We then spent the next weekend back in Jerusalem and then flew back on Monday November 3. It was really neat to be able to see cities and towns were Jesus walked. Seeing the huge churches built different places and seeing the people in the churches weeping and kissing the place Jesus may have been buried made me rather sad. I don't believe that is what He wants us to see, i believe he wants us to see victory and life. The churches felt very reverent but not extremely joyful. ....some pics
Jerusalem/ Dome of the Rock Wailing wall
Garden Tomb(one of the two places Gloria, me, Steph
Jesus was supposedly buried.
I thought this hand depicted very well the idea of all Some girls we met at a collage campus one day.
religions leading to the same God. Rather sad.
The one day we had the opportunity to visit a bedouin camp. This man's name Abraham and believe or not his wife's name is Sarah. This little girl was maybe his granddaughter but she was so cute she just started leading the donkey around. she was only about 2 1/2.
Two random pics of transportation.
A palestine meal a few of us got to eat. It wasn't too bad except for the fact that some of us had already filled our stomachs and the dear lady pilled our plates high with food. this is my plate after gloria took a bunch off.
so anyway we had alot of fun....it was a growing, stretching experience
later
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
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Done Studying!!!
Hey everyone...studying is done...time for a trip...life is good!!! So second term is over. Just thought i would post a few pics and you could all see a little bit of what is happening in my life.
Just a pic of my classroom.
Some of us girls sick and tired of studying so just goofing off.
Bunch of us went and played minigolf one night.
So we hosted the party one Friday night at the English centre. It was alot of fun and went very well. They really got into the games. We had a banana feeding and eating contest. we also did kangaroo relays...
The next friday night they had a space party. that is me and one of the centre girls.
Rosa, Heather, Yvonne and i walking in the rain and getting roti to eat.
So for our mentoring day our mentoring group got together and Delight(our mentor) had us to her house. donuts...coffee...candles...music...friends...rainy...cozy feelings(which are hard to come by over here as it is always so warm) hmm cant get much better. we then went swimming!!another good thing.
Well you all have a nice week i am on my way out of here for another 1 1/2!!
Sunday, 28 September 2008
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ok i know my post are really out of order and it is kind of embarrassing. but i was looking and i didn't tell you much about the trip so i think ill just put down some of the highlights
*Floating village
*Seeing the guys tip over in the tuck-tuck and into the water
*Angkor Wat (Ruins of what is considered the largest religious structure in the world
*Silk Farm (i never knew that much work went into making silk!!)
* Handing out hundreds of balloons to the kids
* Learning to ride side saddle on motor bikes
* War Museum
* Giving blood to a children's hospital
* Eating fried rice and more fried rice
ok i promise i won't post about cambodia again!!! :)
Saturday, 27 September 2008
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Visiting Cambodia
Hello Everyone, well life in Asia is great. I got back to thailand around 7:30 this morning. My group left Cambodia Friday morning around 8 am or so. I think i can safely say we all had a great time. We left Thailand September 17 and were in Cambodia for about a week. Basically we toured during the day and then each evening we spent about an hour teaching English. There were three classes. Michael and I taught the beginners class. It was alot of fun. Rather then bore you all with facts i'll just post some pics..
The English class I helped teach. there normally were around 15 children.
Handing out balloons to random children. we handed out so many balloons
The supper Veachear's brother prepared for us Thursday night. Veachear was the man who is in charge of the english school i believe
Oreo's!! definitly a staple
\The very cultural experience of stuffing 6 people into a small cart pulled by water buffalo...it was very cool
Sunday, 14 September 2008
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Just some pictures of the friday night party at the english centre where i go for my ministry nights. the party theme was a carnival, so they had a bunch of different games and balloons. It was alot of fun.
Steph n I taking a break from studies
all of the girls and our dean
we went to this awesome resturaunt called the waterfall resturaunt or something. it was beautiful. it was a big open building with this waterfall right beside it. Incredibly cool!!!
Sunday, 07 September 2008
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one of our little boys playing upset the fruit basket
Our Group singing deep and wide
We went out to eat one wednesday night to celebrate a birthday.
sorry i had to post twice i am still figuring this out.
kds89
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