the village is so rural...haha
its some 1 hour ride from the office. on a tuk tuk... i saw water everywhere... its the rainny season...
what i saw is what you will see from the plane.. one orange road with water, plantations everywhere. not that much of padi around because it is flooding.. i saw more of sugarcane and some vege... kailan, choisam.. beans...
the first 40 minutes was ok.. because i was travelling on the roads.. the roads is like the normal orange muddy road with a thin layer of tar on top of it. so the road is still bumpy.. but not that bad.. uneven land.. slight big bumps at the bridges... i think the road level sank.. so its lower than the bridge.. and when the tuk tuk passes the bridge.. we will jump..serious.. if we didnt hold on to the railling.. i think i will have flown out...
then..... we made this turn into this orange muddy road without tar... haha.. and it just rainned really heavily this morning.. didnt help the road condition... it had huge portholes with water in it.. that 20 minutes of ride was bad..serious.. the road was next to flooded land.. and the driver was about half a feet from the side of the road. and at the side of the road.. its water... road is one feet higher than water... the driver had to turn left and right to find the least bumpy path.. and even that was bad enough.
and then.... we turned into this even smaller road.. where we could see cow foot prints...with all the muddy holes and muddy road all around.. that road was enough for the tuk tuk to pass by,,even then the tuk tuk was hitting into branches along the road.... wow.. imagine the kids of that village walks to school in that mud.. and they dont have shoes...
when we reached this junction, there were about 15 children waiting there.. they were so excited to see us.. i can always remember the smile they had.. it was another 5minutes ride on that small road to our destination... and the children were running behind the tuk tuk... i can imagine the same thing happening with Jesus and the children...
we put out mats on the floor in front of this house.. cut their nails, sang sunday school songs, told bible stories. one of the team members were cleaning and putting medication on the wounds of the children and the adult in the village.
somehow, i didnt feel well.. at first it was because of the sun and the smell of burning rubbish.. as well as the smell of the children.. the street kids and village kids here have a kind of smell.. smells slighty salty... and plus in other indescribable smells..haha... i felt dizzy and uneasy... and then when we were in the middle of the thing, one local worker told me that she is not feeling well as well. and its not physical not feeling well.. but more of i can sense there is something wrong. i have been praying for that village since i left it... its a spiritual warfare... really have to pray a lot...
the journey back was the same.. bumps and swaying left and right...
im back in the office now..
its a great experience.. will never be able to see this kind of thing in KL.. imagine.. the mat where the children sat... there were pigs, chickens and chicks, dogs roaming around.. haha...