So I know I haven’t blogged much this month at all. I’m sorry, and I can’t even use the excuse that I’ve been busy. More or less I just had no idea what to blog about. Living in Romania is awesome; I love the people, the culture and the environment. But this is the first time that AIM (adventures in missions) has put an entire squad all together for one month. So to say the least it’s been good and it’s been bad, I’ve been the happiest person ever and I’ve been the most frustrated, also I don’t think our contact was prepared for this many people and we have had A LOT of free time and not a whole lot of ministry. Living in community this close together, with people that I haven’t known for that long is one of the hardest experiences of my life. But to be honest it’s stretched me as a person and has been a very humbling experience. At the beginning I was venting to some of my close friends I’ve made here about who is making me mad and who I don’t like and blah, blah, blah. Then one of them told me maybe I should start praying for the people I don’t get along with or the people that make me mad. Wow…. Talk about a humbling experience. I even found myself praying for people back home that I don’t get along with, I was just praying and God put peoples names in my head. I just got confused and wondered “really God, this person, why them, they have never done anything good for me or my family?” But I prayed and I prayed and wow that can do wonders for a person. I’ve started to appreciate the family that has been formed here, the different personalities, and attributes that God has given each and everyone of them. Learning to see them and love them the way God does.
Now for our free day that we had on Monday!! Oh my lanta! So about 8 of us left the house at 11am and went up to “sunset hill” for a picnic. It was awesome, kind of reminded me of the Sound of Music! It was so hot but so much fun! Then Jeff had a great idea (I’m being sarcastic): Lets go by the church, get WiFi and Google map a river and go find it and go swimming. I think it was a mixture of the heat and the exhaustion but we all went along with the plan. So here we start heading down back sketchy roads in the direction of water. Oh also Jeff was confident that this walk was only going to be maybe 30 mins. Well we got out of town in about 5 mins and hit farmland, luckily there was a path we walked along for about 30 mins. Along comes some “forest area” and we continue walking through that, and by golly we see cement and start running. We found it, we found the dam but had to walk along it for 10 mins before we found a place that looked clean enough to swim (there were also locals swimming there). So get this, we were jumping off a sewage pipe into the water, and we didn’t even think twice about it. We swam for about an hour and got all packed up, call Raul to come pick us up because we were too exhausted to walk all the way back (which would have only been maybe 30 mins if we took the main road). All in all it was an exhausting day but it was soooo much fun! Oh and Raul also told us that he wouldn’t even swim in that water because you get rashes from it, so I may have a rash pop up in the next few days! But I wouldn’t have done anything else yesterday! Had a blast! J
Oh and the leg hair is coming in real nice!! The boys are all grossed out by it already.
We are leaving July 29 for Moldova, on the way going to stop and see some castles and stay at the Black Sea for a day too! My team is paired up with another all girl team next month and our ministry consists of mostly teaching English, plus a bonus we are right next to a beach so we can head to the beach in between classes!! Can’t wait!!
