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First off, just to note, Big G is doing some danggggg tight stuff over here!! JC is most definitely in power and shining HIS light in a dark place!! So, G had other plans than what we thought we’d be doing, but what’s new! haha! What do we ever know really!! But just to show, HE knows better! Anywho, so the first day kids were supposed to show up for camp, 4 showed up, we sang a few songs and colored, that was the day before yesterday I think, then they left shortly after. No kids have shown up for the past 2 days after that for camp! Insteaaaad, G had other plans….HE’s given us the privilege of getting to actually train a group of teachers to teach kids in a way that gives JC glory and just how to teach in general. What do we know about teaching?? Well, G is teaching us that HE equipped us with abilities we didn’t even know we had! Goodness! Every nursery rhyme, song, whatever, past classroom experiences, just being taught in the school systems we’ve been in–I mean who knew that so many things would be so useful! G takes the simple and does big things! BAM! So, along with G doing so many ridiculously awesome things! There has also been some very interesting moments HE’s put in our paths! bahaha! Soooo, here’s a couple… Anywho, so yesterday riding back home in an auto (which looks pretty much like a golfcart with 3 wheels and more gusto as far as mph), we stopped at a “stoplight”, if you can call it that, and pretty much here everytime you stop in traffic or anything, swarms of street children trying to sell you various trinkets come up and hassle you to buy whatever they’re selling. And trust me, you want to buy it all, but that realization is that you can’t. Anywho, so we’ve been handing out smartie’s candies instead. Well, this time when we stopped, 4 children surrounded us trying to get us to buy flowers, but we said no and gave them smarties. they came back a few moments later and put the smarties on the ground and proceeded to jump on them and crush them! bah! I hand motioned and ask the little girl why in the world she was doing that. Somehow we understood she didnt like them. okaaaay. haha. But then when we were just talking with them, the “light” changed, and then the oldest kid, a boy probably around 8, reached his head in right where Rachel was sitting and tried to kiss her! BAHAHAHAHAHA! Thankfully, her reflexes kicked in quickly enough, and she moved her head back in time so he didnt make the reach! No kiss for Rachel! dawwww! bahahaha! our auto driver died laughing, and so did we! Then, todaaaaaay, anotherrrr interesting experience!! We were invited to have lunch at one of the teacher’s we’re teaching’s house after class today. Well, so we left with her to what we thought would be her house..instead she took us to a local market near her house, where she had invited 2 of her guyfriends to meet up with us. We thought, ” oh, I guess plans changed and we’re eating lunch here”. We went to McDonald’s and didn’t know really what was going on. They ordered us food and payed for it. After we ate, they were like ” hey, by the way, that was only a snack.” we guessed wrong. then, they told us we were just going to get pudding… So, we were like, “okay, well, only a little pudding because we’re all so full and ya’ll are too kind”. We got to the market that had the pudding, and she told us to wait in the grocery market.. A few minutes laterrr…haha..we turned around to see them buying us what they called “hotdogs” from a vendor. they were definitely streetfood and the cheese looked like sourcream. Kaity took a bite and almost hurled.(sorry Mere). We couldnt finish those. then, we were like ” ok. no more food plllleeease, you are toooo kind.”..five minutes later we turned around and they had gotten us these plates of hushpuppy-looking things covered in green chile sauce. At that point we were beyond full and uncomfortable. They promised there would be no more food. Wrong. Five minutes later we turned around and they handed us a plate of Mosas, which are chicken wrapped in dough. please keep in mind that this is allll street food and totalllly ifffffy. the mosa’s had teeny hairs all over them. But we ate them. at that point, we were pretty ready to go sit somewhere uncomfortably and take a nap in air-conditioning somewhere. Nope. We decided to walk to a nearby mall. On the way there, they stopped by a local popscicle vendor (the least iffy thing we ate), where they bought us orange popscicles. SOO MUCHH FOOD. We were pretty much forced to eat it. It would have been seen as rude if we didnt atleast try it. It was just a very awkward and uncomfortable situation all around. THENNN, you would think the eating ended there. We walked about a mile or 2 to the local mall. thennn, we finally went to her house, where we had thought we were going in the first place. but nooo. haha and her mom had made us moreee food. hah. a plate each with literally a pound full of rice on it and a pound full of Indian daal and homemade bread. throughout the meal, somebody kept being like ” eat, eat”, ” no you are nooot full, you cant be full”, and “drink, drink”, the bottomless amount of orange soda it seemed. you’d think the eating was over but noooo. our plates are taken away. we are sitting there about to burst. then, innnn comes her sister with a huge plate of fruit and a bowl of sugar to dip the fruit in. We left a little after that, and soon got to go home. One of the many interesting and laughable situations we’ve been put in so far. Oh man. and yessss, we were all totally super sick that next day!! hah! HEY!! and since this has literally been a week since I could finish posting this,  GOOD NEWS! We ended up taking in kids off the street for camp! Our camp is up and running! G is soo goooood! HE’s moving mountains here!

HE is powerful and fearful, yet HE choses to show us mercy, when we don’t deserve it,

Grace

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