What a trip...
on Thursday the 21st I was in Three countries in the same time zone, on the same day.... woke up at 4:30 in the Philippines headed out to the airport.
Flew to Hong Kong where i took a bus to the city and eventually met my mom. We had a good time together saw the city and relaxed. Later i flew to Bangkok wow i was so tierd really had the energy sucked out of me.
Having only had 3 hours of sleep for such a long day of travel wasn't the best idea.
I met Kitty at the lougage area (our plan A) it was so good to see her familiar face again!!! we figured out after talking to the info lady that we would just take a cheep city bus into town and a taxi from there to a bus terminal that we caught a bus to the boarder of Thialand and Cambodia. It was about 1:30 am when we got to the terminal and out bus left at 3:30 am. After a four hour ride to the boarder we were way exhausted.
Crossing the boarder was not fun, i had a bad experiance with crossing last time with my ywam team so i felt like i couldn't trust anyone. So we just started walking in Poi Pet (the boarder town). I got kindof worked up so we just took a moment to pray... a few minutes later a nice taxi driver offered us a ride for a reasonable price. Two hours Later we were in Siem Reap wow!
My friend Sokly hooked us up with a guest house right away and after we rested she fed us and showed us around the base...
We've been taking advantage of the delisous fruit here. Also learning about Ywam as we are meeting and hanging out with many Ywamers from all over the world.
tomorrow (monday the 25th) is our last day in Cambodia and then we'll spend some time in Thialand.
we keep moving
its been super good so far + super thankful for Kitty my travel buddy.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Saying good bye to the Philippines ... already :(
Wow its already time to say good bye?!
I guess that is to be expected when i only stayed here for a week and a half.
It has been a very good time, refreshing and adventurous.
So the first five days in Manila were chill... seeing old friends and recuperating. I slept alot, visited YWAM antipolo base where i did my DTS. Joined Ate kit with her weekly childrens ministry. Went to Shekinah Christian Church in Nagtahan.
Sunday afternoon Ate Carol (who is on a ministry break 'furlo' resting here in Nagtahan) and I started out adventure. We were planning at first to go to Baracy (white sands beach) but the transportation wasn't running on the correct times and it just didn't work. So we planned out a trip up north. We took a bus trip to a friends place (Ate Dhel) arriving at 1am (bus driver really took his time).
We had a mini sleep and left @ 8 again. We took a Jeepney into the mountains Lagaue, bus to Ban toc 4 hours through mountains, high in the clouds, through remote villages, and unpaved roads along the mountain side.
In Ban toc we rode on the roof of a Jeepney up the mountain again to Sagada! this incredible village high in the mountains.
So funny during this trip we spend alot of time traveling on the road but I had such a good time it was so great.
Back in Manila now after a great adventure resting for a day before i head out tomorrow.
Tomorrow I fly out to Hong Kong to meet my mom for a half day 'mother daughter' time. Then I fly out in the evening to Bangkok... where i will meet my friend Kitty and we will travel together to Cambodia and around Thailand.
God shows his faithfulness a new all the time.
oh mini story along those lines that i need to tell you.
I had bought a ticket from Hong Kong to Bangkok but never received my e-ticket version or confirmation just knew that i paid in full.
I e-mailed the company so much but they never send it to me.
Finally it was 5 days till i flew out i posted it as a prayer request on my face book.
I received a response from a friend of mine Nynke who is a travel agent in Amsterdam. It turns out she works for the same company that I ordered my ticket from. She had read my statues randomly and found my ticket in her files and made sure i got it.
Wow i really wouldn't have gotten it if she wasn't there.
Gods faithfulness is overwhelming.
I guess that is to be expected when i only stayed here for a week and a half.
It has been a very good time, refreshing and adventurous.
So the first five days in Manila were chill... seeing old friends and recuperating. I slept alot, visited YWAM antipolo base where i did my DTS. Joined Ate kit with her weekly childrens ministry. Went to Shekinah Christian Church in Nagtahan.
Sunday afternoon Ate Carol (who is on a ministry break 'furlo' resting here in Nagtahan) and I started out adventure. We were planning at first to go to Baracy (white sands beach) but the transportation wasn't running on the correct times and it just didn't work. So we planned out a trip up north. We took a bus trip to a friends place (Ate Dhel) arriving at 1am (bus driver really took his time).
We had a mini sleep and left @ 8 again. We took a Jeepney into the mountains Lagaue, bus to Ban toc 4 hours through mountains, high in the clouds, through remote villages, and unpaved roads along the mountain side.
In Ban toc we rode on the roof of a Jeepney up the mountain again to Sagada! this incredible village high in the mountains.
So funny during this trip we spend alot of time traveling on the road but I had such a good time it was so great.
Back in Manila now after a great adventure resting for a day before i head out tomorrow.
Tomorrow I fly out to Hong Kong to meet my mom for a half day 'mother daughter' time. Then I fly out in the evening to Bangkok... where i will meet my friend Kitty and we will travel together to Cambodia and around Thailand.
God shows his faithfulness a new all the time.
oh mini story along those lines that i need to tell you.
I had bought a ticket from Hong Kong to Bangkok but never received my e-ticket version or confirmation just knew that i paid in full.
I e-mailed the company so much but they never send it to me.
Finally it was 5 days till i flew out i posted it as a prayer request on my face book.
I received a response from a friend of mine Nynke who is a travel agent in Amsterdam. It turns out she works for the same company that I ordered my ticket from. She had read my statues randomly and found my ticket in her files and made sure i got it.
Wow i really wouldn't have gotten it if she wasn't there.
Gods faithfulness is overwhelming.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
ASIA, I'm back!
wow... one evening at the end of November I was hanging out with God praying and diving in the word when I started to dream. I planed out what I would do/where i would go/who i would meet, if i went to Asia. Then I started to pray for it and felt at peace so i went to check out tickets and see if it was reasonable financially.
After a day of fasting and prayer... God spoke to me that if i decided to go He would go with me. Also spoke to me about what He would teach me and show me on my trip.
It worked out with my job amazingly to take off for a month.
I bought the tickets without really telling anyone abroad.
The plans all came together.
( one night in Hong Kong, one week in the Philippines, three days in Cambodia, week in Thialand, one week in China)
Last week, the week before i left was very exhausting and i guess you could say it was a very productive week. I left Monday January 11th at 6:18am from my apartment in Amsterdam. Was so blessed by my friends Steven and Deborah who saw me off @ the airport. I started my long journey a'dam - frankfurt , frankfurt - Beijing , Beijing - Hong Kong... in Hong Kong i followed some crazy directions about busses and trains and found my self in a area called Tai Wai i bought a SIM card to call my parents but it didn't work. i almost gave up, as its so tempting to do when your exhausted and don't know what to do. Then i saw a mobile phone shop i went and asked them about my SIM and how i could call the number. They read the chineese character hand book i got with the SIM and hooked me up. I talked to my parents who in turn connected me with their friend who had a guest room ready for me and who took me out for some street food it was great i really enjoyed Hong Kong and wished i could spend more time there.. (i'll spend a day on the 21st with my mom in Hong Kong!!).
The next morning at 4:30 i got up, got ready, had a great breakfast and headed to the airport. Eventually flew to Manila where after some communication clarifications my friend Ate Kit and Ian (guy from the Nagtahan church) picked me up...!
I am realizing things about myself being here... about who i was and how i've changed. its really intresting... its good talking to Ate Kit and Ate Carol (who is also staying in Nagtahan). Today i'm making borritos for dinner and seeing a bunch of old friends!
God is so awesome!!!
After a day of fasting and prayer... God spoke to me that if i decided to go He would go with me. Also spoke to me about what He would teach me and show me on my trip.
It worked out with my job amazingly to take off for a month.
I bought the tickets without really telling anyone abroad.
The plans all came together.
( one night in Hong Kong, one week in the Philippines, three days in Cambodia, week in Thialand, one week in China)
Last week, the week before i left was very exhausting and i guess you could say it was a very productive week. I left Monday January 11th at 6:18am from my apartment in Amsterdam. Was so blessed by my friends Steven and Deborah who saw me off @ the airport. I started my long journey a'dam - frankfurt , frankfurt - Beijing , Beijing - Hong Kong... in Hong Kong i followed some crazy directions about busses and trains and found my self in a area called Tai Wai i bought a SIM card to call my parents but it didn't work. i almost gave up, as its so tempting to do when your exhausted and don't know what to do. Then i saw a mobile phone shop i went and asked them about my SIM and how i could call the number. They read the chineese character hand book i got with the SIM and hooked me up. I talked to my parents who in turn connected me with their friend who had a guest room ready for me and who took me out for some street food it was great i really enjoyed Hong Kong and wished i could spend more time there.. (i'll spend a day on the 21st with my mom in Hong Kong!!).
The next morning at 4:30 i got up, got ready, had a great breakfast and headed to the airport. Eventually flew to Manila where after some communication clarifications my friend Ate Kit and Ian (guy from the Nagtahan church) picked me up...!
I am realizing things about myself being here... about who i was and how i've changed. its really intresting... its good talking to Ate Kit and Ate Carol (who is also staying in Nagtahan). Today i'm making borritos for dinner and seeing a bunch of old friends!
God is so awesome!!!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Time To Turn conferance
Time To Turn Bezielings Festival
It was awesome. So it was basicly a social justice conferance that happens every year. we had speakers and workshops on oils effect on countries and our consumtion rate. The third way Jesus calls us to deal with violence. Living in community for the good of the community (neighborhood/seeking the peace of the city). Letergical dance and theater for God's kingdom. All the food we ate was biological(organic) or rescued from a dumpster. We had some great times of coming together and praising God and prayer it was awesome. I loved when we had comunion it was so powerful being together as one body.
On sunday our heart for the end of poverty, war, injustice and voilence and our frustraightion to our enslavement to oil brought us to a point of sharing it with the city so that we would not me alone in the quest for a better world and celebrating the good news that Another World Is Possible. We held a funeral service for Oil right by Dam square on 'koop zondag' (shopping sunday) the streets were busy as we walked with our coffins of oil barrels. We were very sad realizing the amount that we use and abuse oil. But while we baried it we realized that poverty, war, injustice and voilence would be barried with it (to some extent). That gave us cause to celebrate. We threw a party with saying we wanted to start walking out that hope of another world we gave out cake and coffee to by standers and asked them to celebrate with us. The shaking shikes oil drum bad (made up of time to turners) played some awsome beats with the awesome phrase 'oil junk kan het en vatje minder'. 'oil junks make it a gallen less' (like we are oil junkies and we need to use and abuse less)
I had some intense and less intense interactions with the crowd. Some people went right into the gospel with me and others stayed on the shallow level of climate change. It was good to step out for truth proclaiming the hope we hold through Jesus.
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It was awesome. So it was basicly a social justice conferance that happens every year. we had speakers and workshops on oils effect on countries and our consumtion rate. The third way Jesus calls us to deal with violence. Living in community for the good of the community (neighborhood/seeking the peace of the city). Letergical dance and theater for God's kingdom. All the food we ate was biological(organic) or rescued from a dumpster. We had some great times of coming together and praising God and prayer it was awesome. I loved when we had comunion it was so powerful being together as one body.
On sunday our heart for the end of poverty, war, injustice and voilence and our frustraightion to our enslavement to oil brought us to a point of sharing it with the city so that we would not me alone in the quest for a better world and celebrating the good news that Another World Is Possible. We held a funeral service for Oil right by Dam square on 'koop zondag' (shopping sunday) the streets were busy as we walked with our coffins of oil barrels. We were very sad realizing the amount that we use and abuse oil. But while we baried it we realized that poverty, war, injustice and voilence would be barried with it (to some extent). That gave us cause to celebrate. We threw a party with saying we wanted to start walking out that hope of another world we gave out cake and coffee to by standers and asked them to celebrate with us. The shaking shikes oil drum bad (made up of time to turners) played some awsome beats with the awesome phrase 'oil junk kan het en vatje minder'. 'oil junks make it a gallen less' (like we are oil junkies and we need to use and abuse less)
I had some intense and less intense interactions with the crowd. Some people went right into the gospel with me and others stayed on the shallow level of climate change. It was good to step out for truth proclaiming the hope we hold through Jesus.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
!
Wow God is good!
Last week on the 1st and 2nd of the month I was stressed out about how to move all my stuff and i needed a mattress etc...
God totally provided! Got a 120 E mattress for 17.50 at a kringloop, My uncle works in Wageningen right by Ede and picked me and all my stuff up and brought me to Amsterdam the same day that I SMSed him at 8 am. Wow it all worked out and I felt God speaking about the aboundance of His love for me as His daughter.
Its so wierd because i've been feeling kind of shallow in my walk with God not setting any real time apart for him but in those moments God is by my side loving me when i don't deserve it. I guess you would call that grace...
just experiancing Gods grace~! its awesome!
So this is the beautiful place i have for three months its right by my favorite park in Amsterdam (westerpark) where i love to run or go out for coffee. Also just down the street from the Shelter community house. I'm so blessed...
(the pics don't show but theres also a kitchen and a bathroom and a garden yard thing in the back!)
Last week on the 1st and 2nd of the month I was stressed out about how to move all my stuff and i needed a mattress etc...
God totally provided! Got a 120 E mattress for 17.50 at a kringloop, My uncle works in Wageningen right by Ede and picked me and all my stuff up and brought me to Amsterdam the same day that I SMSed him at 8 am. Wow it all worked out and I felt God speaking about the aboundance of His love for me as His daughter.
Its so wierd because i've been feeling kind of shallow in my walk with God not setting any real time apart for him but in those moments God is by my side loving me when i don't deserve it. I guess you would call that grace...
just experiancing Gods grace~! its awesome!
So this is the beautiful place i have for three months its right by my favorite park in Amsterdam (westerpark) where i love to run or go out for coffee. Also just down the street from the Shelter community house. I'm so blessed...
(the pics don't show but theres also a kitchen and a bathroom and a garden yard thing in the back!)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The adventures thus far with photos and explanations!
Living at Marcos in the Oudezijs 100 community house apartment sitting in the red light district. This is where I lived my first two weeks in amsterdam with my friend Heather who was kindof in the same position as me. It was good to live with her she helped my transition time and processing life/relationships.
Amsterdam is beautiful i always wanted to go sailing, my whole life. A manager at the Shelter City took Tamar and I out on a day trip it was sweet. I loved it!
It was like a mini vacation/just enjoying life and deligting in the Lord.
Heather and I went hitchhiking one day to the beach it was great relaxing and a ton of fun!
We had a cool kind of community since we lived in the red light district (after marco's we moved down the street to house sit for another two weeks). So many of our friends from the shelter etc... would come over and find a haven of rest at our place spending next to no money of living we some how ended up eating so well and really just enjoying life, fellowship and time with God.
The first weekend in September I went to Ede to pick up some things from my lugage that i have in a garage there at my aunt and uncles place. I also went to meet my friend Asha.
We met a month earlier at a anti-sqat place in Niewegain with my friend Mattanja. Asha and i klicked right away one of those one in a hundred people who you are super comfortable and get along with real well from the get go. We planed a mini Vac we were going to hitch hike to the French beach but it was ugly weather that weekend so we hung out in Niewegain
The community house in Niewgain is very alternative and resourceful they go dumpster diving for 90% of their groceries. So as usual i taged along so i could also benifit from the finds of the night. A little late night grocery shopping.
Later we hitch hiked to Mattanjas parents house we ended up haveing an amazing relaxing weekend there really encouraging time.
Sunday after church we headed back to Amsterdam...
The next place I lived was with my friend Kitty on a house boat on the Amstel river.
Gods provision has been unreal.
During my time on the boat i went through a transitional process from christian bubble amsterdam to student/secular society. Her house mates had a BBQ it was great meeting and getting to know them but i was faced with how much diffrent my lifestyle and moral standards are.
I also a few days later got a job as a waitress at a steak house on Damrak. I didn't like it at first because one of my co-workers was making me uncomfortable. But now I love it because he respects me now and my managers are great. It actually feels a little like the shelter of course not the pop music and alcohol but the interaction with tourists. I always get questions of where i'm from and why i moved to Amsterdam etc.
After a sweet time in Ede with Asha this weekend it turned out i had monday off. So did a ton of shelter people so we went on a sweet trip to the beach on one of the last days of summer. We hitch hiked in pairs. We really had a great time.
Amsterdam is beautiful i always wanted to go sailing, my whole life. A manager at the Shelter City took Tamar and I out on a day trip it was sweet. I loved it!
It was like a mini vacation/just enjoying life and deligting in the Lord.
Heather and I went hitchhiking one day to the beach it was great relaxing and a ton of fun!
We had a cool kind of community since we lived in the red light district (after marco's we moved down the street to house sit for another two weeks). So many of our friends from the shelter etc... would come over and find a haven of rest at our place spending next to no money of living we some how ended up eating so well and really just enjoying life, fellowship and time with God.
The first weekend in September I went to Ede to pick up some things from my lugage that i have in a garage there at my aunt and uncles place. I also went to meet my friend Asha.
We met a month earlier at a anti-sqat place in Niewegain with my friend Mattanja. Asha and i klicked right away one of those one in a hundred people who you are super comfortable and get along with real well from the get go. We planed a mini Vac we were going to hitch hike to the French beach but it was ugly weather that weekend so we hung out in Niewegain
The community house in Niewgain is very alternative and resourceful they go dumpster diving for 90% of their groceries. So as usual i taged along so i could also benifit from the finds of the night. A little late night grocery shopping.
Later we hitch hiked to Mattanjas parents house we ended up haveing an amazing relaxing weekend there really encouraging time.
Sunday after church we headed back to Amsterdam...
The next place I lived was with my friend Kitty on a house boat on the Amstel river.
Gods provision has been unreal.
During my time on the boat i went through a transitional process from christian bubble amsterdam to student/secular society. Her house mates had a BBQ it was great meeting and getting to know them but i was faced with how much diffrent my lifestyle and moral standards are.
I also a few days later got a job as a waitress at a steak house on Damrak. I didn't like it at first because one of my co-workers was making me uncomfortable. But now I love it because he respects me now and my managers are great. It actually feels a little like the shelter of course not the pop music and alcohol but the interaction with tourists. I always get questions of where i'm from and why i moved to Amsterdam etc.
After a sweet time in Ede with Asha this weekend it turned out i had monday off. So did a ton of shelter people so we went on a sweet trip to the beach on one of the last days of summer. We hitch hiked in pairs. We really had a great time.
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