It is crazy to think that I will be heading home in less than 2 weeks. The time is flying by. And it will go even faster starting tomorrow when the first team arrives for English camp.
The interns and I just spent 3 days cleaning the dorms for the short-termers. To say it was an unpleasant task would be understatement. We had spent several nights there while the students were living there about a week ago but now the students have moved out for the week. It took 3 whole days of scrubbing, sweeping and mopping to get the place even decent looking and I know the short termers will still be aghast at the conditions. Cambodians have the mentality of use and abuse for their homes. So they never ever clean. The place hadn't been cleaned since last summer's English camp.
Our greatest adventure? Stan and I were cleaning the kitchen and as I was moving an old water filter, baby rats started crawling out and running everywhere around my feet. I'm not ashamed to say I screamed like a girl and jumped on a chair. But I wasn't too embarrassed because Stan was already on a chair. It took an hour of chasing rats (and hearing Elijah scream like a girl when one ran over his foot) before we thought we got them all. Last night, we lay traps and caught 10 more rats. But we think we've gotten them all and sealed all the holes they were using to get in, so hopefully that's the end of that adventure.
We are going to start at a break-neck speed starting on Friday when most of the teams arrive. During the last English camp, there were 24 short-termers and that was difficult. Now the number has doubled. So I'm sure I will be exhausted by the end. But we're all excited for camp to start and for us to meet the new teams.
Please pray for travel and safety as they arrive and the craziness of logistics as we shepherd 50 people around the city. Hopefully we won't lose anyone.
Also pray for us interns as well. The honeymoon period is now over and we've been together 24/7 for a month now so we have had to find a little more grace with one another. Keep praying for health because I haven't had one day of sickness yet! Truly God providing for me.
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Jessica,
Someone once told me that there is no honor is suffering needlessly. And I think we can apply that theory in this situation as well. There would have been no honor standing in the midst of rats when there is a perfectly good chair to stand on. Which, in that situation, seems to be God’s provision. :)
Praying you won't miss a thing He has for you.
Kelly
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