Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Two Dogs and Menus
The students in the Summer DTS are getting ready to go on outreach and it has me thinking about Thailand and Memuyl and all the other people I encountered. One of the girls asked me if I did anything stupid on outreach. I simply looked at her and shook my head. If you do not know me it is easy to assume I would have been the one to stay as close to the house(s) as possible, but that is not me. Especially when I am in a foreign country and there is so much to explore... and I am on a team of almost twenty people. Do not get me long, I loved every moment with them, but I had to have time to myself- and that usually happened by wandering around Thailand. Not the whole country, but where we were at. (;
So, I would wander- a lot. My leaders knew I was going out, and one of them (who is a mother) would always tell me to be careful. I would get what time (roughly, since we are talking Thai time) I would need to be back and set off. I ended up getting lost multiple times- since I have a knack for that and all. But lost or not, something that always ended up happening was this: a man would start to follow me. You would think after the first time I would have stopped going out, but it did not deter me too much, if at all. So I would be walking and staring and taking in every part of whatever town/city we were in and I would begin to feel like someone was watching me. I'd half turn, act like I was looking at a booth/store and check to see what was going on around me. Many times there would be some man I had passed ten minutes prior not too far behind me. Being aware of this, I would make more turns through the town and be checking continually. One thing about living where we were was that I had to walk down a long, rather closed and mostly deserted road. Actually, many roads were like this. So being followed, I would begin to pray about it. Asking God to help me remember where to go and show me a shortcut, and make him go away. Without fail, two dogs would come and walk on either side of me. (Mind you, these are street dogs- you don't mess with them.) Within five minutes, the man would be gone. Every.Single.Time.
Also, I am in the middle of my week "off". I have been working on the menus and I am so happy to say that I have finally completed them. Oh, what joyous relief. And now I need to fundraise. Yay!
Also, I moved. So send me something. I like letters. And I am running out of pens and stamps. Just saying. Oh, I also like Nutella. (;
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Wither on
It has been over a week since the SCF has ended. A week of feeling so tired and ,yet, accomplished and proud.
This past week, there was a Children @ Risk Seminar being held at the base in Madison, so I helped with that and this following week continues week 2 and the first (and only) week of Community Development Seminar. I am hoping to sit in on the Community Development Seminar as much as I can while still doing what needs to be done.
I am officially staff at YWAM Madison and, I feel, settling in nicely. It is almost the beginning of a new season- and that is a little scary, but I am looking forward to it. I think being here and working with the Fall DTS (Discipleship Training School) will be amazing and help launch me into the next part of what God has for me.
So excited.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Weeks 10,11, and 12
Wow, I got really bad at keeping y'all up to date on my adventure in the School of Communications Foundations. Let's catch up really quickly.
Week 10 was trends in communication. I thought this week was really fun. The speaker was a professor at the university here in Madison and I really enjoyed him. He focuses on educational gaming. So what did we do? We made a game! I partnered up with three of the guys and we built a game based on the North Korean prison camp, Camp 22. I learned a lot about North Korea during that time and all I did was help design the camp. One of the guys and I are hoping to finish it, but I do not know how realistic we are being in that dream. This guy is actually the one who led my outreach with his wife and he will be entering into a co-leadership role out at the Training Center and will be one of the leaders of the new DTS. So pray for him because he is coming out of a school and jumping into leading a school of a little under forty students. That was quite a side note. haha So week 10 was awesome.
Week 11.... Intra personal communication week. This week was amazing and at the same time, I despise it. Just being honest. Intra personal communication is how you talk inside yourself. (Hence, intra.) The speaker led us into a time of looking at Moses and the burning bush. Moses began to believe various lies about himself while he was in the desert. For example, Moses was raised with the princes of the land of Egypt and therefore, given the same education. All the princes were taught how to speak. To be influential speakers. In the New Testament (I have to look up where) it says that Moses was one of the best speakers in the land, but Moses is at the burning bush saying "No God, I cannot speak". Which is not true because he was trained. But he began to believe lies. We all do. Week 11 included a presentation: Risk Night. Basically, it is all in the name. This was a night about taking risks. What did I do? Well, why would you want to know that. :P
I had the worst time trying to figure out what a "risk" was for me. Performance wise, there is really not one. I have done almost everything possible on a stage and not a single thing is really a risk. There are some things that would freak me out more than others, but all in all, it was not about doing something on stage. For me, this night was what I would be saying. Actually, I did not say anything the whole entire time I was on stage- I did a mime to a voice-over. And I was shaking the whole time as I bared the truth of who I am. I tried to hide so much and for my risk, I peeled back layers and layers of who I try to pretend to be and try to show other people. My risk: vulnerability. Looking back, I can still not believe I was vulnerable with people I did not know super well.
Week 11: success
Week 12 was debriefing. How was the school, the leaders/staff, etc. Oh and a review. Over all: it was alright. Extremely tiring.
I am still realizing the different things I have learned throughout these three months and I am excited to continue in my new skills and this thing of vulnerability. For now, my next step is remaining in Wisconsin. I move out to the countryside in a couple of weeks and will be living there from September onward. New and exciting stories and lessons.
Week 10 was trends in communication. I thought this week was really fun. The speaker was a professor at the university here in Madison and I really enjoyed him. He focuses on educational gaming. So what did we do? We made a game! I partnered up with three of the guys and we built a game based on the North Korean prison camp, Camp 22. I learned a lot about North Korea during that time and all I did was help design the camp. One of the guys and I are hoping to finish it, but I do not know how realistic we are being in that dream. This guy is actually the one who led my outreach with his wife and he will be entering into a co-leadership role out at the Training Center and will be one of the leaders of the new DTS. So pray for him because he is coming out of a school and jumping into leading a school of a little under forty students. That was quite a side note. haha So week 10 was awesome.
Week 11.... Intra personal communication week. This week was amazing and at the same time, I despise it. Just being honest. Intra personal communication is how you talk inside yourself. (Hence, intra.) The speaker led us into a time of looking at Moses and the burning bush. Moses began to believe various lies about himself while he was in the desert. For example, Moses was raised with the princes of the land of Egypt and therefore, given the same education. All the princes were taught how to speak. To be influential speakers. In the New Testament (I have to look up where) it says that Moses was one of the best speakers in the land, but Moses is at the burning bush saying "No God, I cannot speak". Which is not true because he was trained. But he began to believe lies. We all do. Week 11 included a presentation: Risk Night. Basically, it is all in the name. This was a night about taking risks. What did I do? Well, why would you want to know that. :P
I had the worst time trying to figure out what a "risk" was for me. Performance wise, there is really not one. I have done almost everything possible on a stage and not a single thing is really a risk. There are some things that would freak me out more than others, but all in all, it was not about doing something on stage. For me, this night was what I would be saying. Actually, I did not say anything the whole entire time I was on stage- I did a mime to a voice-over. And I was shaking the whole time as I bared the truth of who I am. I tried to hide so much and for my risk, I peeled back layers and layers of who I try to pretend to be and try to show other people. My risk: vulnerability. Looking back, I can still not believe I was vulnerable with people I did not know super well.
Week 11: success
Week 12 was debriefing. How was the school, the leaders/staff, etc. Oh and a review. Over all: it was alright. Extremely tiring.
I am still realizing the different things I have learned throughout these three months and I am excited to continue in my new skills and this thing of vulnerability. For now, my next step is remaining in Wisconsin. I move out to the countryside in a couple of weeks and will be living there from September onward. New and exciting stories and lessons.
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