Fact:
Bamboo Train is awesome! Imagine a
train-ride tour through the peaceful countryside of Cambodia… You look out your
cabin window and see a gorgeous mix of green jungle with serene expanses of
rice patties, and all sitting underneath a brilliant blue sky… Now imagine the tracks are so old and
warped and the gaps between each rail are so big they had to stop any
commercial traffic a long time ago…
and the jungle you see is from the branches, grass, and thorns that are
all overgrown over the tracks and cross in front of the tracks … Oh yeah, and your not in a train
cabin, your on a 6’ x 8’ flatbed cart with no side rails that sits 1’ off the
ground…
So,
imagine your on one of those flatbed shopping carts at home depot but instead
of jumping on and riding through the parking lot your screaming down an old
train track at 30 mph through the Cambodian jungle, feeling every bump like
someone hitting you with an uppercut, getting whipped with branches as you
scream by, and being covered with fire ants and bugs you can’t even
imagine… sounds like fun
right? It was awesome!! The kids had so much fun today on the
bamboo train.
After starting the
day with breakfast at the Green Mango (which is a very cool restaurant here in
Battambang that helps women who were victims of trafficking to have a different
life http://www.greenmangocgi.com/
) we picked up the kids and spent the morning on the Bamboo Train and they
loved it. Not gonna lie, it was a
little painful but a lot of fun and it’s worth it just to see how happy they
get. The things we do for the kids we love…
After
Bamboo Train we had lunch at the orphanage (awesome!) and got back into our
curriculum. Today’s topic was
about Being Friends with Non-Believers.
Cambodia’s a Buddhist country and there are few Christians here which
means the majority of people the kids are friends with are going to be
non-believers. Laura and Mistye shared some excellent personal stories about
today’s topic too. It’s great to
able to reinforce the importance of having friends that are non-believers and letting
the kids get to know us better personally too. Great Job!
After
curriculum we ran back to take a quick shower only to come right back to the
orphanage so the director and his wife could have a date night! Ratha and Phearom who run the orphanage
are two of the greatest people you will ever meet in your life. Imagine how bad you want a date night
after a week with your kids..
now imagine having 40 kids! and only a handful of date nights all year.. So giving them the chance to have a
date night was important to us and we’re so glad we could do it. That also just
meant more time to play with the kids!
After
that is was dinner at Café Eden, another cool restaurant with a mission similar
to Green Mango http://www.cafeedencambodia.com/main/
Praises: The trip is simply awesome so far,
thank you all for the support.
Thanks to our support teams back home! We got some letters yesterday from some of our closest
supporters and it was awesome, we love you all!
Prayer
Requests: Continued good health
and energy.
Keep doing what your doing, thank you all!
Tomorrow: Pancake breakfast at the orphanage,
(cooked by us), more songs, games, and curriculum, then… the Circus!
Blessings,
The
Team
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