Update #7 Southeast Asia A

Monday was a busy but fun day! I woke up around 7:00am and went down for breakfast. Then we all got ready to go to a feeding with the Azusa team at a place called Tent City. We took big vans to get there, and our team got the one with the best AC (shhhhh, don’t tell Azusa!). 

On our way there we listened to worship music and made some origami frogs and butterflies for the kids, which they loved!! When we got there, it was hot, with not a lot of shaded places, and lots of kids. It was a blast. We got to play some Tag with the kids, play with the origami frogs, toss with a stuffed animal they had, and do the “go bananas” song too!!

After that, we drove to Jollibee’s (a fast food chicken place people loveeeee to eat at here) for a much needed lunch break and spontaneous team bonding time. We all ordered, but found out that sadly they were both out of fries and the peach mango pies we all love! 🙁 But somehow, my dad was able to get us Large size ones (I guess they had them versus the regular size?) and we were all over the moon with excitement!

When we wrapped up at Jollibee’s, we’re then headed to another adventurous spot – a waterfall called Daranak Falls. It was very cool! The water was cool and blue, except the waterfall part was not flowing a lot, it still was a cool experience. We all got to cool off in it for a few hours and just play which was a lot of fun. When we were finished swimming, we all had to be dry in the vans, so some of us had to change into dry clothes, which took a hot minute. But, it was definitely worth being dry on the long car ride back to the base. The nice ladies who make the food back at the base also packed us lunches (PB&J’s, juice pouches, and apples which were very tasty and perfect after a long swim!).

When we arrived back, we all got a little cleaned up, and then headed to the Adoni House (a home at the base for young, 12 – 16 years, pregnant girls) to play games, do karaoke, and we even got to make Turon (a filipino banana roll dessert, which is super tasty)!! The girls were so kind and had the best laughs and smiles, I loved getting to know them and hang out. 

Afterward, we went upstairs to dinner, which was a taco salad bar! I liked it, and we brought up the Turon we made so everyone was able to enjoy it too. Then, Brooks (our host for the trip) told us he had what is called Balut (a fertilized duck egg that has been incubated for 14ish days and then boiled) and that the brave people who ate it would get a pin saying they did. I was grossed out and chose against eating it, however, Lauren, my dad, Khaycee, and Keilah were brave enough to eat the baby duck. We got the whole thing on video, so don’t worry if you need to ask one of us for that! 😉 But everyone on our team who tried it, was able to swallow it and get the pin!! It was nasty, and Lauren almost puked, but she pulled through in the end, ewww! 

Once the birdies were in their tummy’s, we all went up to the boys home to play sports with some kids and the pastors from the area which was cool. We all had a lot of fun, the kids are really good at all of them!!

Well, that’s all for now! It was quite a day, and can’t wait to see what tomorrow has for our team!! Thank you for keeping us in your prayers, it is greatly appreciated. We love and miss you all!!

XOXO, 

Ella Joy