Shine a Light

This is the first time I've had more than an hour on a computer since I moved here, so even though it's late, I can't seem to pry myself away! Outside, six boys are sprawled across air mattresses and old youth group couches, exhausted from their trip so far. And I'm here in the dark church office, trying my best to be productive: replying to emails, updating this blog, etc. I'll add a few photos from my week.

Emily tutoring at a student's house. Tutoring and meetings are how we fill most mornings.

Chinese soup for lunch. For three dollars you get this humongous jug of broth with meat, rice noodle, and Chinese vegetable. Here, Emily picked fish ball for her meat, and chicken for mine. ...An ENTIRE chicken, except, thank goodness, head and feet. They hack it up and boil it in front of you before dropping it into the soup. See all the chicken on the lid? What looks like dark meat is all, like, bones and little ventricle things - veins and guts. I'm pretty sure it hasn't been long enough since vegetarianism for me to tackle this whole soup. Thankfully, the purple box back there has Chinese cake from yesterday, which is a little more my style.

One Saturday a month, church hosts a free "pancake feast" from 9-11 am. That means we volunteers begin working the gridle as early as 7 o'clock! This week, breakfast cleanup was followed by an emergency SAY Yes meeting at noon and a farewell BBQ for the pastor's family at 4.