home.

so there i was, about to write a blog about how i love asia but i miss home.
but michelle beat me to it so i feel awkward if i do it now.
but i kinda have done it... or have i?
I guess a blog is a blog no matter the length.
But seriously... it's been the most beautiful two weeks, but i miss home a lot.
I think its partially being in this so 'not-christian' country over easter is like a mega downbuzz. no public holiday. no easter eggs. no acknowledgement of jesus. it really bugs me, honestly people, if you knew what he did for you...

anyway. just got back from the beach. it was so beautiful. i slept on a pirate ship last night. not really, but pretty much. It was awesome!!
I miss home a lot, but then i'm not really complaining, asian life is pretty sweet.
... but their tea isn't!

its been a crazy day to say the least.

today i woke up at six to go on a two hour trip to the country and visited the cutest kids in the world at this primary school, and decided i'm moving school unless chilts decides to make the whole school dance in the quad during school time :)

i went to probably one of the poorest house i've been to in my life to see why a boy had to drop out of school aged 13

 then i went to another house to meet a boy who doesn't have enough money for medical care and so stays at home in bed all day and hasn't been at school for the last five years cause he can't walk.

almost fainted... then was redeemed by lunch. which was crazy, like a zillion selections of vietnamese food.

Then we went to a childrens home for people who are disabled and so their families don't want them, or can't look after them.

 This girl here is the cutest thing in the entire world, and she's like 5 and really smart, but when she goes to school none of the other kids will play with her because she smells. And the teacher has to change the diaper for her, and because she has spina bifida she can't go outside and play with them either. So sad!! :(
Also like the cutest kid i've met in my life!

today has been a crazy day.

also drunk way too much green tea for my liking, it's polite to give it to people when they come to your place, we got it at the school, the restaurant, the houses, the orphanage. Never again will i drink that stuff... okay probs tomorrow.

but life changing day.

just taking it all in, one day at a time.

crazy.

change

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy


i'm desperate for change.
change in the world.
change in my life.
change at school.
just change.

i am ridiculously pumped for the 40hour famine this year, it's going to be beautiful! Waaaah, but secretly freakiing out cause we've raised almost over $25000 in fundraising at school this term for CHCH and breast cancer. So its gonna be a mish to get more, but i'm so excited.

I'm also really pumped for Vietnam. I'm really praying that it changes something, its been 5 years now since Timor and Thailand. and i was only like 12 when we went over, and it was eye opening, but theres only so much you can take in as a 12 year old.

I hate injustice.
I hate poverty.
I hate unfairness.
did you know that $40 can buy 10 children in East Timor enough seeds to feed them for a year. FOURTY DOLLAR! Thats like how much some of us spend on food in a week, yet for every single breath we take someone in the world dies. Like dies, cause we couldn't give them $4. WOW.


imagine if the difference between life and death for one of your friends was $4. it's ridiculous to even think that someone would keep that money and let them die. Oh man. i'm passionate. it's really nice to be passionate about something again.

Life is interesting. very interesting. i just need change more than ever. JESUS help.

puppets

 iwonderalotofthings. usually not about me though.

i'm not very good with change.

not very good at all.

i think its cause when life's fantastic...

you just want it to pause. and stay like that.

but challenges are fun, 

its how you grow in God

it's how you learn your greatest lessons.

and its how you become who you are.

well maybe not fun. but definately... challenging