Kids are kind of my thing. If it were up to me I would be working with children every month. So far on the Race, at least one team on the squad has been working with children every month. That team has never been my team. We have done village ministry twice, and worked with college students last month, and then finally this month is my month. This month we are working with an organization in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia called the Rhoma Shalom House. It is a place where single mothers send their children when they can’t afford to send them to school. The pastor of the organization pays for all of them to go to school, clothes them, and feeds them until they graduate. The children in the girls home range from the ages of 5-19. They are all precious and beautiful daughters of Christ and I fell in love with each and ever one of them the moment I met them.
The whole team is pretty separated this month. The two boys (Garrett and Michael) are staying at the boys home and doing manual labor. We don’t get to see them until 6 at night and our curfew is at 10 so we miss them! All of us girls are living in the girl’s home and I love it. The house mother and I have different parenting phillosophies but we’re working through it. Ashley and Jess are working in the church office helping the Pastor out there. As for Sam and I, we are teaching school! She teaches 3 girls ages 13,12, and 9. I am teaching 3 boys that are all 6 and three girls that are 5. Just teaching school is awesome to begin with, but what makes this teaching experience ten times cooler is that we’re teaching children that are refugees from Sri Lanka. Even though the war in Sri Lanka is over, there are hardly any jobs so the refugees are staying in Malaysia for as long as they can. The Pastor doesn’t want to enroll them in school though because there’s no telling when they might have to leave. The children I work with are amazing. I’ll be writing blogs about each one of them because they’re already to special to me for me to push all six of them into one blog.
God has really been showing me that I’m meant to work with kids. I’m not quite sure yet if it’s in Social Work, teaching, or orphanages but I know that He would bless me in any of them. This month is already making me grow in ways I could never imagine. I am so in my element with these girls that it’s exactly what I needed. 

In other news: Kaitlynn isn’t on my team anymore : ( We lost her at team changes and I miss her dearly. I’m going to a water park next weekend that has a man made beach that you can surf on! And I would be lying if I said the thought hasn’t crossed my mind to take some of these beautiful children home with me. I also didn’t meet my deadline : ( I’m still a little over $500 short and I’m still trying to come up with it. Thankfully, the AIM staff is super supportive and hasn’t sent me home yet! More blogs coming soon! Sorry it’s been so long!
