greeeeetings to everybody! its been like what A WEEK since the last time i blogged. my apologies, this is so because GRACE has gone for mission trip which totally CHANGED her life! :D really really really. and guess what... my main theme of research for the whole of next year would be
!!! HAHAHA. and after that i will definitely go for the mission trip next year. :) muahahahaha. so now... where shall i start? i need to take time and recall. HAHA.
lets see..
1st day
arrived at this MATARAM hotel which totally LOOKS like a NICE hotel. seriously... i was actually expecting worse. but HAHA God made it easy for us the first few days.. must certainly thank him for that. so that day was basically the unpacking and preparation day. nothing much. everyone just relaxing and chilling out. for a while it seriously felt like mission trip was over. HAHA. okay next...
2nd day
we attended a christmas service that was super sweet. as in there were little kids going up to perform and older children singing. but i think the best part of the whole service was when... the worship leader a.k.a sarah a.k.a an AUstralian sang the song ONE WAY. like OMG all of us were like NO WAY. hahaha. the whole group of us were jumping up and down to the song. it was a pretty hilarious sight becuase the rest of the people in the room were all indonesians that were just STARING at us... thinking that we all had gone mad. but HAHA. anyway... the night was super nice. the pictures tell them all anyway. GO FACEBOOK! :D
3rd day
we all left MATARAM hotel and took a 3 hour bus ride up the mountain. WOOTS and now the REAL mission work begins. reached senaru. placed our stuff there and set out to go and do work in the villages. i really didnt know what to expect but it turned out to be quite okay. the FIRST thing that i did in the village was... HAHA cut the nails of an old lady. HOW COOL IS THAT. haha. its seriously my first time. haha the second thing i did was to cut the nails of a small BABY. haha. and thankfully by God's grace. GRACE's clumsy hands did not fail her. WHEW. the old lady and the bABY WERE both happy! *beams* then after that... i don't know how but i started to help the people delice and wash their hair. i was at a loss at first. not knowing exactly what to do. but after a while... having a visual image of what hairdressers normally do to my THICK hair. i probably got the hang of what or i should say HOW to scrub and shampoo the people's hair. HAHA. oh man... some of their hair are SUPER LONG. once again... go look at the PICTURES.
we went to.... erm 3 villages? by then it was night and everybody was just super tired. HAHA and the hostess certainly does know how to warm our hearts. GOOOOOOD FOOOOOOOD awaited us. THE BEST OF THE BEST INDONESIAN FOOD I HAVE EVER TASTED!!!! (okay fine it has been the first time i've eaten it but whatever it still takes my breath away) and then... and then...... the moment you've been all waiting for,.... the rooooooooooooooooom.
as there were not enough rooms i think.. me abi ashley and deborah had to bunk together. thats like YEAH more fun ma. the more the merrier. when we went to put all our stuff in the room in the afternoon.... the room looked perfectly fine. BUT at night... we turned on the LIGHTS and guess what... from what i should have known that was lost in my sub- conscious... INSECTS *gulps* are attracted to light. SO... i have no idea who switched it on. but YEAH the lights were on and with just a blink of my terrified eyes...... FLIES started swarming into the room by the HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS!!! bHAHAHAHAHAH okay fine i mayBE exaggerating. but WHATEVER tomeeeee it looked like ALOT. okay... all of us were FREAKED OUT i tell you. freaked OUT! just imagine... 4 girls in a room filled with water flies stranded on a bed, swapping them away and at the same time screaming at the top of their lungs. oh boy.... just by typing thiss moment out my stomach is doing its flip flops already. *gulps another time*
i really seriously did not expect God to put me through this. NEVER EVER. i was actually prepared for the worse of the worse already.but NOT this. i never even thought about it at all. but God just had to let succumb to be biggest FEAR. OH MAN. SO i was actually pretty traumatised by this particular incident. and throughout the whole night i didnt talk at all, didnt smile and just kept on thinking why God put me through this. like HELLO we are coming to do GOOD WORKS. okay fine its a silly thought but then i realised that God was actually trying to teach me something. the lesson of submission and faith. that night he just said "grace trust me and have faith". that night i submit myself to God, knowing that he must have his reasons for puting me through this. HAHAHA. then my DADDY the saviour of the day came into our room with a PESTICIDE and BROOM. he started spraying the WHOOOOOOOOOLE roooom and at the same time sweeping all the fallen wings on the floor out of the room. HAHA. my heart was like LEAPING for joy man. HAHAHAHA. thank youGOD. i would never ever forget this experience. :)
okay i shall update the rest of the days ANOTHER day. there are so many things to talk about!!! for now. GRACE needs to RUSH her christmas PRESENTS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. btw GO FACEBOOK MAN and seeeeeeeeeeee the pictures!!!! :D