Holy Macaroni Batman! We are half way through Month 9! of the race! in our 6th and last Asian country before we head to Africa!!! 😀
There’s so many things that are just normal parts of life in Asia that in the USA you would get fined, locked up for, your kids taken away, ext ext…. and it’s all just normal life to us racers haha
Whole family’s on moto’s baby’s and all,
150cc Moto’s pulling fully loaded 16ft trailers around, or they will pile something on the back that’s 5 times bigger and heavier then both the Moto and rider combined and somehow keep it balanced through the ruff Asian roads, not to mention the mountain roads,
All the kids are do’n things that most kids graduating high school in the states wouldn’t have even the siltiest clue how to do,
like I have no problem handing a machete or knife to a 3 year old for something cause I know that lil kid can use it better then I can haha,
all the weird Asian foods are normal and don’t seem weird at all,
When your tall be’n in Asia is like be’n in a obstacle corse for your head that you can duck and dodge everything without even thinking about it,
Go’n to bed at 7pm and walking up at 5am has become normal,
half naked baby’s everywhere all the time that squat and pee where ever they want cause they don’t use dippers, so they never put pants on them,
or like when you see a baby all by him self in the middle of a busy border crossing and you just walk on by or step over it and not think nothing of it,
There my kind of people when it comes to working cause they know how to make stuff work and come together with having lil to no resources, they can take one simple motor and make ten diff machines out of it for farming or building 3, 4, 5 story buildings, That’s one of my favorite things bout Asia, if they can’t afford to buy the right tool or something, they figure out a way to make something work form nothing,
In Cambodia they took these lil motors that are basically a popping Johnny, and made there own home made 1ton to 2ton trucks, and your like how the heck is that even enough horse power to even move the truck much less loaded haha,
And if there’s bamboo around your set for life, we even eat it haha, the sky is the limit when you have bamboo and a machete haha, well not really cause you could build a pretty stout airplane out of bamboo too,
There’s so much that’s normal life here I could never recollect all of it,
And in places where it’s illegal to be a missionary or Christian you will find a catholic church, and there’s always a separation between Christians and catholics, the Christians are the persecuted, the catholic’s well no one seems to noticed that there even there except to take a pic of there old school looking buildings,
2 things that are universal; Coke-a-cola and catholic churches,
I would share my prospective on why everywhere there’s a separation between the two but for the sake of not starting an argument bout it and possibly causing a brother to become angry and sin I will say no more.
I will miss Asia, and the places I’ve left behind to move on to the next that have a piece of my heart, from the people in Nepal, to Indonesia, from Thailand and all them awesome kids in Cambodia that I miss the most, and here in Vietnam working in the fields harvesting rice by hand in the mist of some of the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever seen, and those times when your van can’t make it up a hill cause there’s too much slippery ox poo on the road and you have to walk the rest of the way home,
Yep I will miss Asia, God has taught me a lot here, and has carried me through some hard times, all the places we’ve served and helped and been and seen I consider a gift from God, a gift that I will always keep in my heart 🙂
As month 9 is coming to a close with only two months in Africa till they send us home, the question is getting more real everyday, (what am I go’n to do with myself after I get home from being gone for a year? Do I go back to east tx or to south tx? how can I ever go back to “normal” life? Do I go back to work or dose God have something els in mind? I was shot an idea/option at our last debrief to go be a diesel mechanic for a ministry that’s hauling food supplies around in Haiti, but who knows I’m a day by day kind’a guy in a day by day life and God will lead me across those bridges when I get to them,
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