Food

You may be wondering, what the heck does one eat in Vietnam.....well here you go!

  Breakfast: Usually ice coffee and Vietnamese pastries. Sometimes we get a sandwich that has this "different" shredded pork stuff in it, cucumbers, tomatoes, a fried egg and liver (SICK). We didn't know that there was liver on the sandwiches, and once we knew most of us couldn't shake the taste/texture of it. Needless to say that after that, we reminded one leader to not tell us all of what is in our food, because then we will be more weary of it. Another morning, we went and bought a bunch of native fruits, such as dragon fruits and mangosteens. One day we ate these rice bun things, that has some sort of ground pork mixture, and freaking quail eggs! Once I actually looked at the shape/color of such eggs, I couldn't bring myself to eat them. 

Lunch: The orphanage where we are staying makes us lunch, and it has been a hit and miss. We can have everything from mock American food, to these random shrimp things that are wrapped around the stems of leeks. Today and yesterday we have gotten fresh watermelon too, and today we got a treat of cream puffs for dessert. We also got this random vegetable dish with something that resembled bacon on top. Somethings look like foods I would eat in the states, but taste completely different. Like one day we got egg rolls, but they had fish inside. 

Dinner: For dinner we usually go out at one "hole in the wall" place. We haven't recently discovered a place that sells bbq pork with rice, pickled veggies and cucumbers. we ordered pork at this one place, and we got 2 small pieces, along with 2 eggs. 2 BROWN eggs....SICK. we would poke them with our chopsticks and s slight indentation would remain. I think one person out of all of us was brave enough to try it. We have also eaten plenty of pho noodle soup as well, which is a lot better than in the States :) And usually dinner is followed by more ice coffee, but because it 1)  incredibly humid here and 2) Ice coffees are like 50 cents. 

Well this is it for now. It is like 10pm and way past my bed time. Tomorrow is our last full day working at the orphanage, which is really sad. Saturday we go through the war tunnels, and Sunday we have go to church, then have a free day. 

I hope to post again soon, because He is doing amazing things in and through this group and I can't wait to share!

Grace & Peace.

Dinner:

Day 1

  Plane flight wasn't too bad! We all got our luggage too, which is always a bonus. The layovers weren't that long either, which always helps. 

This is our first day working at the orphanage. I think we can all say that it is teaching us to be humble in a completely different way than we have experienced before. The kids we are working with today have cerebral palsy, and I wish I could lend my eyes and ears to you to let you experience this as well. Most children here have so much joy, and they totally have a piece of our hearts already. We have been playing with the kids as well as feeding them, which is more difficult then one would think. I was feeding this one kid today, and another knocked the bowl over, and the food spilt all over my legs....not to mention getting peed on! It gets to the point to where we all have something spilt on ourselves and are gross from the humidity, so we just have to laugh it off. 

    Tomorrow we will be spilt up in small groups, and go in different rooms which we will have for the rest of the week. We have been given 3 rooms here, and there are about 4 of us in each.e Each room has its own bathroom and mini fridge, so we can keep drinks cold....It is so humid here that I know we would all be in trouble if we didn't have one!

    As for the food, I can say that it is very interesting....but for the most part we love it! We have had Pho noodle soup, weird pork/chicken sandwiches, boba, meat rice buns with quail eggs.

Ok I know there is a bunch more I could write about, but that is it for now! 

Here We Go.

We leave for the airport tonight at 9pm, which is both exhilarating and surreal. We have a 14 hour flight to Taiwan, then we are off to Vietnam. Our team spent almost all day yesterday bonding with lunch, trips to a few different stores for supplies for the day camp we are putting on, and going to the beach for a bonfire.
I am excited to see what is in store for us, even though we have a "set" schedule.