The drive home was fairly relaxing, I slept in the back seat most of the time while mom and dad took turns driving. Stop for lunch at a restaurant with a funny sign! (“Please don’t do drugs”). Well this particular town where we stopped has a big Ashram, and drugs are quite related to worship [...]
Can you imagine having mutton, chicken and fish for breakfast at 7:00 in the morning? I did, and it’s definitely not the usual. Took about a four hour drive to a small village. Stopped at a small orphanage/shelter home for women. The same people are also running a school for about 600 children so we [...]
Drove down to Pondicherry (it’s another state/province in India and formerly a French territory) from Chennai, after breakfast. The road was really good and we could actually drive comfortably at a 100 km per hour (a rarity on Indian roads). The scenery was also worth seeing, collectively making it a very pleasant drive. We arrived [...]
We planned to leave at 4:00 am, but somehow that didn’t materialize and we left more around six-thirty. The first two hundred Kilom’s were pretty uneventful, I think I slept through most of it in the back seat. But soon enuf the car started acting up and we had to stop and a couple places [...]
ARGHHHHHH!!!!! Had another power surge today! Blew out my surge protector—thank God not the whole computer and monitor like last time. Well this is just one of the every day things to be expected here in Uganda… I’m really taking a risk writing this blog while plugged straight into the wall without a surge protector [...]
Woke up earlier than I wanted to on a Sunday morning, but a girls gotta work! I wish by now I could post a picture of my nose pierce but mournfully it once again didn’t work out (I pierced it on Saturday afternoon and by Sunday morning it mysteriously fell out…WHY? Spent most of Sunday [...]
Well. God certainly knows what He is doing and truly, “all things work together for goodâ€. I know I was so upset earlier, but now I see His hand in everything and how he made a way where seemed to be none, and actually made things turn out better than we ever could have planned. [...]
The most amazing thing about India…is that you can never generalize. Amazingly there is very peaceful coexistence and understanding amidst unbelievable diversity. It was neighbour’s sixtieth Birthday party, a very new experience for me. This party wasn’t designed to be fun (although I thought it was quite fun!) The purpose is to invoke the blessings [...]
Part of my work on the JETT/teen board includes helping out at “ASD” on Monday nights. ASD stands for Advanced Spiritual Dynamics, a fancy long name for united devotional study with the teens. We try to do something special with music, skits, videos, and more with them. This last ASD was kind of special because [...]
Just to backtrack a little before I blog about this one: Early this year, the Lord laid it on my heart to go back to my home-country, the Philippines. I’ve been serving as a missionary in other Asian countries and now in Africa for the last five years. During the Tsunami relief trip last January, [...]