Hello people of planet earth! This is now my 6th weekly blog update...can't believe it's been that many already...only 10 more weeks left. While that number is getting more and more exciting the lower it gets, it's also getting more and more real that I'll be leaving here, and who knows if I'll ever be returning. The kids are already asking when I'll be back after I leave. At this point in my trip, I say the only thing I can, “I don't know when I'll be returning” but the said truth is, I might not be returning any time soon.
So this week has been interesting...but at the same time, not so interesting. It was interesting that I had three firsts. I had squid for the first time, and now that i've had it, I can honestly say that i'm not a big fan of it. But I think it may just be the way that it was cooked. It was cooked in it's own ink, but through talking to people here, they say that if I have it fried, it tastes a lot better, which makes sense, because everything fried tastes better. Now onto my second first of the week. I had my first run in with a cockroach. It wasn't your typical run in either. I didn't see scurry across the bedroom floor. No, I woke up to it, on my side. You can imagine my fright when I saw that thing. I tried swatting it, but because of the hour in the morning, approximately 6:30 in the morning, I wasn't quite myself yet so my aim wasn't all that good, and I missed horribly. The cockroach then proceeds to crawl onto my back where I quickly lose sight of it. I flip my shirt hoping that it gets flung off. I look all around my bed and I don't see it at all. It's not by the wall, it's not at the foot of the bed, it's not on the other side of the bed. I get up and go about my morning as usual. When I come back into my room late morning, I see it on it's back dead. Where it was I have no idea...all I know is that it was dead and that's all that matters. And my third first, was that I had my cell phone stolen for the first time on Thursday. I noticed my cell phone missing on Thursday night, on Friday morning I went to the home where the people that run the ministry live. I told them that my cell phone was missing, and that none of the boys had it. Art, Annabelle, and Earl went to the pawn shop right down the road, and they said that they had bought it yesterday, but had sold it to another pawn shop in the market in the city. It was then decided that Earl would just go to the pawn shop in the market pretending to be looking for a new cell phone and look for my phone. While all this is going on, I was on Skype with my parents telling them what had happened. We had deactivated the phone so that it would not work here in the Philippines. We then prayed that whatever happens would be the Lord's will. We then said our good-bye's and good night's/ good mornings, and hung up. No sooner did I hang up with them, did one of the co-founders get a text message from Earl saying that he had my phone in his hands. The guy at the pawn shop wanted $2500 Pesos for it which is about $58 USD. Earl was able to negotiate the guy down to $2030 Pesos, which is about $47 USD, because that's all he had at the time. The good news is that I have my cell phone back, the bad news is that the SIM card and mini SD card are missing, and they wiped my pictures as well as messed with the settings, but all things considered, I'd rather my cell phone back with a few settings messed with, then not have a cell phone at all.
Okay, soo I knew that this week had been exciting, but I just didn't realize how exciting it was until I wrote this blog entry. This has probably been the most exciting week I've had in a long while, definitely since I've been here. But I've also learned a very important lesson through all this; No matter where I am in the world, whether it be at a Christian home for abandoned children in the Philippines, or out on the street in the slums of Mexico, I have to be careful with my valuables. I can't just leave them lying around like they are nothing.
Thank you all for praying for me! I hope you have a good week yourself, and we shall meet again next week :)
With the wind,
Mark
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