Hotel is to Pool as Chinese Food is to Dinner

Day 3 is now complete and I am feeling great. It is now 9:21pm and I am sitting on my bed in my room, just typing on my laptop listening to music. It is actually the cd my sister Annie gave me and I just wanna give a shout out to Annie and a thank you, first time listening to it and its quite good. Today was absolutely amazing. I feel like this time is one of the best in my entire life. I do not want to put any memories from Canada on the same plane because this is completely different, but just want to express how awesome it is here. I cannot believe I am so blessed to go here. This house I have been given to live in on the YWAM base is so cozy and nice. I am settled and comfortable here, I am happy here. I love the people that have come with me from Canada. Everyone is really easy going and cool, and I am positive these are the people God chose to be here. Everyone is at different stages in their Christian walk and yet we still get along famously. I don't think I have every clicked so fast with people. It's just amazing. Mr. K my leader is really great, he is unconventional at best, but I know that he has a love for the Lord that is inspiring. He admits that hes a little crazy, an example of this is his constant efforts to soak us with water or throw whatever garbage he can at us. Today was an amazing day, we just completely relaxed and had fun. Don't worry everyone I will start work on Monday. I will be working at King's Orphanage (really excited). Apparently, the children are so sweet and you fall in love with them right away. Anyways, back to my day. Like I said twas awesome. We began by going to church. The YWAM base has many churches close by and Mr. K told us to choose one. Many of us just followed him including myself. There was an American church visiting so there was a good amount of white people around. lol Anyways, the church was enjoyable overall. The worship was done with a worship cd playing, while one black man belted out the songs with a mike. Following at least a half hour of worship we had a time of testimonies. Basically this time was an open mike to all those to share what were on their hearts from their struggles to a person they wish us to pray for. Apparently they accidentally took too long so the pastor ran out of time to preach. But he gave a 15 minute blurb on what he planned to preach about and how we will preach that sermon next Sunday. He was talking about the reformation of the church and our lives. I really want to return next week and after that I will decide if I want to move on or not. Following that we went home and got ready for the pool. That's right I said pool. Kathy (our YWAM leader) took us to a Hotel where they allowed us to use their pool for $5 American (which is $10 Belizean dollars). All we had to do was pay that and we got the pool all day to ourselves. It was amazing. I had so much fun with Laura, we stayed in the pool the whole time. Although I did burn minimally, only on my cheeks and the tiniest bit. Once we had gotten our fill of that we drove to a Chinese restaurant that had the most amazing Chinese food I have ever eaten. I loved everything we ate (and they didn't even have chicken balls). I tried a little bit of everything and liked it all (even this egg dish that I was worried about). The way we ordered was they just placed platters of everything is front of us and we just took a little onto our plates. Mmm soo good. Anyways, once we got home, we were taken to Kathy's house for a movie night. We had snacks there and the movie was pretty good. It was a Christian movie called Hangman's curse. It had its really corny moments, but it also had some redeeming qualities, so overall I would say it was decent. By the climax we were all quite into in, it was a little scary. There is a few parts where there is tarantulas everywhere and people are getting bit and they are just gross. But other than that, I give decent reviews. I have now finished my 6th journal/devotional/blog thingers and I am pretty tired. It is 10pm here which means its 11 for all you Canadians. I just wanna say a big thanks to all those that helped me get here, through any sort of support and I ask for your continual prayers as I face my placement tomorrow. My wish for this trip is that I come out of it knowing more about myself, God and what God wants me to do. Therefore, I ask that you would pray for my protection and all those things. Thanks to everyone again, peace.