experience overload
Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 pm
We broke for lunch after teaching all morning, and Bryce and I ate rice, eggs, and fish in the big tent. I was feeling much better than the day before, so I really enjoyed that meal.
Most everybody else also had this large potato-like thing. I don’t remember what it was called. They also had fish. everyone ate together and fellowshipped for a while.
We came back together for another session at around 2pm. I taught for another couple of hours – this time on the ministry of serving and leading. We had another Q&A session after that, with a lot more men asking good questions.
Apparently the taxi we had taken to get to the church site was not available to bring us back, Bryce and I started walking – maybe a mile or two – down a dusty “road” alongside a railroad track.
Then we caught a “bus” which was actually an old van. The buses did not look like Filipino Jeepneys, but they certainly “acted” like Jeepneys. We waited for the bus to fill up, and were treated to a fight between two of the drivers/conductors in the buses just before ours on the road. This served as our entertainment for the day. It was actually quite embarrassing to watch that display of too much testosterone and too little maturity.
The bus drove us further down the incredibly uneven road until we finally reached a paved section. There, we got out of the bus and into another car, hired to take us back to the hotel. As you can see from the photo, the car had right hand drive, but we drove on the right side of the road! That kind of messed me up inside my brain, but it didn’t bother the driver.
We arrived exhausted, and just in time to catch the final meal. It was too late to go to the nearby internet café – again – so, no contact with the outside world for another day. I stopped at Bryce’s room, and we talked for a bit, but I had already been starting to nod off on the ride home, so I left early and went to bed. It was an exhausting day of experience overload, but it was well worth it.
jeffersonvann 