I can't believe it is already Thursday! Time has gone really quickly this week... there has been a lot of listening to stories and trying to teach the essentials for these guys when they go home. I have been meeting with each of the students to do some debriefing and catching up before they head off, and that's been good and sometimes hard. It's so hard to know what to say when somebody tells me about something that was disappointing for them or was really hard, and I know that it didn't have to be that hard. I mean, in some cases, it's disappointing for me, too. I always wonder if I should have somehow known it would happen and stopped it somehow. And then again, some things I DID know would be hard, but I guess I anticipated them being dealt with differently, and being a great growing experience instead of an "I cannot actually believe that happened" kind of thing.
Anyway, hindsight and all that... on the other hand, there are also really great things that happened! Some of the students got to do amazing things that they never knew they could do, and meet people that they never knew existed and see a way of life that will forever change the way they live theirs. And that is an amazing thing. God was (and still is) so good to these guys.
Part of my challenge is to bring that to the attention of those who maybe missed it at the time.
Okay, so serious. In spite of having a lot to do, I also get to spend a lot of time having fun and laughing at everyone's pictures and crazy stories and just being with students. Woot! (Which, by the way, I just found out was the Mirriam-Webster word of the year last year. According to Isaac, who I generally find to be a reliable source.)
And that's my life. Tomorrow I have the very difficult and burdensome task of taking all the students and staff to the Bay of Islands and going jet-boating. Yes, feel sorry for me. Maybe I will finally get a tan!
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