Sunday, July 10, 2011

Training and Cambodia

Training:
The one week of training was really good, God really worked in my heart. It was mentally tough because it starts at 8 in the morning ends at 9 in the night. Met some amazing people and got to meet and get to know my teammates. We had team devotions and through that I believe we all grew stronger. We left to Cambodia on June 28,2011 at 1:35 from LAX. The group that was going to Vietnam was with us so we had fun with them. Our group and them separated at Tapei, Taiwan. We landed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia around 11 Local time. we had an interesting time to get our visas. The girls all went and stood in the line to get visa and I was filling out my forms to take it there, and a Cambodian official came to me and got my information and payment and told me to wait there, and he just gave me visa, which was interesting. I stepped out of the airport and my thought was am I back in Kerala right now? The environment was so similar. We got to the guest house we were staying at and Dan who picked up at airport took us to one of popular market place called Russian Market and we had our 1st food there, Pork n Rice.  We walked around the market to see the place. The next day we went to the school we are teaching at and we observed the other team that was there already. We just did that for the rest of the week and on weekend we just relaxed. The next week the Canada team and we shared the teaching responsibilities. I thought my 1st math class on Tuesday and again on Thursday. This weekend was okay, on Friday we went to another city for the beach, it was not my favorite thing to do, but everybody else in the team wanted to do it so I went along with it. we came home Saturday night. Sunday morning we went to church we went to last week. It was a very good service. well thats all for now.. until next time.   

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Experience

It's almost two weeks since I left home and lot of things happened since then. Since June 18, 2011 I was travelling. Started with going to Nashville airport in the morning to pick up grandpa, Bijoy, Pr. K.A Thomas, and others who went to India. When I got there and picked them up, it turns out other than 2 luggage no others came. After doing the baggage claim, we all went to eat at Sitar restaurant and came back to pick up two more baggage. Came home about 5:30 and went to fix Vijay's computer. I did that for close to 2 hours and rushed home to pick my luggage. We left home around 11 P.M June 18, 2011. Got to Atlanta airport about 1 A.M on June 19, 2011. Met some good people at the airport from primerica and a couple was going to Fresno, California. I got thru security check and everything and boarded flight to Charlotte, SC.  I had a lay over in SC for a hour and boarded the flight to California. For some reason, the flight to California felt like I am going to India because it was so loong. I got to LAX and collected my baggage and got on my shuttle. I met 3 girls who were going to the same place. It was amazing to see how God has worked in all our lives to bring us to training and to different countries.
God has blessed us and allowed us  to be here and just enjoy each other and God's presence. I will add more later. Signing out now.