Porch Update

I am sitting here on the porch, my feet are up, and I am listening to some tunes. The sun is heating me up quickly, will probably swim again later. For those who do not know, right when we got here someone suggested we buy a pool since swimming in the river pretty much isn't an option at all because they still need to clear away jungle. Anyways so we all pitched in some money and bought an above ground pool. After the three months we are going to donate it to YWAM, so it will do some good here. Well like I said, I am heating up, so I might take a dip later. Today has been pretty interesting so far. It is only 4:41pm and yet I am already doing a journal. The day began with my trying to sleep in and failing miserably. I went back to sleep many times and yet I still got up at 9ish. My breakfast was delicious, bacon, eggs, cheese and toast. I made it into a sandwich, twas delicious. Following that I finished all my logs for Mr. K and Mr. Demoor and I handed in all my assignments to Mr. K. I now have a 98 in this co-op. Muahah. Compared to everyone else who are having 40-60s because they haven't handed anything in yet. But it was really easy so I can't brag, all I did was finish all my assignments which consisted of 3 blogs, a resume (which I already had done), the slide shows from Arden and my short term placement logs. Today I have also eaten a yummy lunch of hotdogs, hamburgers, and the oh so healthy cheezies. Mmm. Following that I chilled out with Elena and Liesl, talking, listening to music, and playing all those fun card games on my laptop. Then I swam in the pool for about 15 mins, sat in the sun for another 15, and went back inside to Elena/Liesl. We watched a walk to remember which is a decent movie except for the fact that the way they represent christians makes me want to barf. The main character is absolutely perfect, she was even sitting on the bus with her bible on her lap (very realistic). The reverend is represented well as the hell fire preacher who is hard on the rules and has little compassion. Parts of this movie make me want to barf, and yet parts are pretty cool. I liked the part at the end when they are getting married and they read the passage about love. Love is patient, love is kind, it is not boastful... etc. I think that would be pretty nice for my wedding (not that I am thinking about that yet). Anyways, I am sitting on the porch, and I have just been informed by Lauren that everyone is going to the chinese restaurant for dinner, which I gotta say is pretty sweet considering its the best chinese food I have ever had. I loved everything there. I have now realized that my laptop is absorbing the sun since its black which probably isn't good for it. I will finish with an update on what I will be doing for the next 5 weeks. I have now finished my first placement at the orphanage and I now have 2 weeks before I go to a Mennonite school for 3 weeks as my next placement. The next 2 weeks will be pretty interesting. I have today and tomorrow for down days... except we are not allowed leaving the base so we feel totally trapped. We can't even go past this guys house on the property cause YWAM is running a camp for the Mennonite peeps. So we really are limited. And everyone is home, so that's about 20ish teens, plus leaders crammed into the same house for 2 days with limited room to breathe. But other than that I'm good. Once the weekend is up, I am spending monday and tuesday preparing for a VBS we will be doing next week for YWAM. From weds - sunday I will be at this place, really random, apparently this guy needs some help, so were driving up to his school, and were gonna help out the kids. He is one of the girls mom's cousin, so we got connections lol. Sunday we return home and I forget what were doing monday. But tues-thurs we are running the VBS, local kids are gonna get a summer day camp type thing, and we will be running it. Then friday-sunday I do not know. And then that following monday 2 weeks from now, I will be at my next placement, living at their house. I will be at a mennonite school with Lindsey (another really random person who I don't really talk to, hopefully it will work out really well like Ben). The people who had that placement before really loved it there and they said the mother cooks the most amazing food. I think that is a pretty good update with my life, I best be off to get ready for the Chinese resturant. Peace out everyone.