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Summer travel: the way they are (3)

Xi-le — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:00:44 +0000

I arrived at 3:22 AM. It’s too early for me to go home. My building opens at 6:00 and I don’t want to wake people up so I decided to hang out outside the train station for an hour or two. I’m now sitting on a foot high bench of an outdoor breakfast stall and

Summer travel: the resting place (2)

Xi-le — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:33:53 +0000

Let me start by saying I don’t know what to write. That is weird considering the fact that I have so many things to write about.

I’ve been sick but He has given me joy in the midst of it. I have learned the joy of waiting on Him. I have seen the deceitfulness of

Summer travel: on the train (1)

Xi-le — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:27:58 +0000

Sitting inside a classroom is something I always dreaded.

One friend said, “I can’t sit to save my life.” So, if I can’t sit still for an hour or two, how in the world would I manage a 26-hour train ride to LY city confined to a bench shared by three people?

Well, I don’t have

Cambodia Youth Camp (8)

Deb — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:37:27 +0000

Dinner was over, and the utensils and plates washed by the team of youth assigned to the task that evening.

As it grew dim, the mosquito coils came out, and to my amusement, the entire mess hall at the campsite was soon surrounded by the “smoky incense” from the coils!

Dinner

Washing plates after dinner

That

Youth camp at Preynob Cambodia (7)

Deb — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:22:59 +0000

Hauling sand, mixing cement, ploughing the fields, planting corn…! Who would have thought that our 50 teenagers would be involved in such hard labour on the official first day of the youth camp!

Finally, its our 5th day in Cambodia and after settling in at the camp site and a great morning of games and fellowship,

Fourth day of Cambodia youth camp (6)

Deb — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:19:09 +0000

Once again, a long road journey lay ahead for our youth team in the 2009 December camp in Cambodia. It was time to check out of the guesthouse in Koh Kong, time to pack the luggage and themselves into the five vans. The vehicle which had broken down a few days ago, causing a lengthy

The great divide (5)

Deb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:21:58 +0000

On Monday morning and the third day of the Cambodia Youth Camp, our fifty-over teenagers were looking forward to a thrilling ride over the high seas, and they were only disappointed because it was so short: less than 15 minutes! After breakfast, we put them 10 to a boat, and sent them off to Bangkachang

Medical mission; fun at Baklang beach (4)

Deb — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:36:54 +0000

There was both work and play scheduled for Sunday afternoon after the church service and lunch. Work involved the first medical mission in the Baklang island community in Koh Kong; our Singaporean doctor had come prepared to see about 50 patients and had brought medicines for this purpose. The worker at the church told him

A blessed Lord’s Day at Baklang Koh Kong (3)

Deb — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:19:03 +0000

I absolutely didn’t feel like getting up that early Sunday morning. It was much too comfortable in my simple little room at the guesthouse in Koh Kong, Cambodia! However, it was the Lord’s Day, and the 4th anniversary of our little church on Baklang island. I had to get up!

I had a pleasant surprise at

Youth camp in Cambodia (2)

Deb — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:23:55 +0000

I didn’t travel with the morning group to Cambodia. The second team of 22 brethren were booked on another flight that same afternoon, and I had gone to the airport scratching my head over HOW to check in 22 people in the fastest, most efficient way. I am no travel agent, and the thought of