Hello of people of planet earth! We meet once again. This is now our 16th meeting, but the end of week 14. It feels so incredibly strange that after being here for the past four months, I'm going home in 11 days.
Last night one of the boys asked me when I was leaving while I was saying goodnight. They now know that my time with them is drawing to an end. Before last night I don't think they realized just how close I was to leaving. But now that they do, who knows how they will react when i'm no longer around. I know it will be one of the hardest things I've had to do to date. I'm not saying that saying goodbye to family and friends to come here wasn't hard, it was, but when you live with people for this length of time, not really getting away from each other, there’s a bond there that almost seems stronger then a family's bond. The only thing I can think that was tougher was saying goodbye to my YWAMily in February after graduation. Being with these kids for four months 24/7, through the bad and the good times, has definitely grown us together.
With that said, it will definitely feel good to be home with all my family and friends once again! I've said this before, I'll say it again, this trip has been one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I've been a few international mission trips before, but I was always with people of the same culture, who spoke the same language. That was not/is not the case here. These kids, and staff, speak English as a second language. With that said however, they speak English very very well! One of the staff members just about speaks it fluently. These past four months have absolutely flown by! It feels like I just got here a couple of weeks ago.
Nothing really interesting happened this past week. Although, on Monday I had to go to the immigration office to get my exit visa, which costs about P700, which is like $15 or so. Anyway, I get to the immigration office, pick up the form I need and go sit down and fill it out. When I go back up to the desk, to give my form in, and be told where to go next, the lady tells me that I don't need an exit visa because I'm only here for four months. The only time you need an exit visa here is if you've stayed for more then 6 months. SO naturally I was very happy. That was $15 I didn't have to spend! And to celebrate, we went to a different mall then we usually do, which is actually bigger in my opinion, which is very hard to believe. We didn't really go there to celebrate, Angela needed to pick up a dress for the mother of the bride. We had a little breakfast when we first got there because we got there before the mall o
pened. Then it was time to get the dress and a few other little things. Then it was time for lunch. We went to this place called Case Verde. If you look at Facebook profile picture, that's the Big Bang Burger from the same place. I was smart enough not to get that burger again, instead I got the Excalibur burger. When I ordered it, it looked a lot smaller, and much more manageable then it really was. It was huge. But, I was able to finish this one this time.
There's not a whole new with the kids this week. All the kids are officially in school now. For the past month- month and a half or so one of the girls wasn't in school because her aunt hadn't sent her papers to the headquarters for her previous school. But she officially started school on Monday. But other then that, nothing new has happened this week.
Well that's about it for this week, see all of you again next week!!
With the wind,
Mark
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