Not About Protests

I'm sure everyone is expecting this post to be about all the protests occurring in my neck of the lately, and while it is all very interesting, so far it hasn't really affected me much at all.  So I'm actually here to tell everyone about something else...

Over my last few years of adventuring, if you will, there's only been a couple constants.  1. ants  2. teaching  3. church and 4. traveling.   But today I've discovered a fifth, that is I've always had little kids to play with.  My first year at CAS of course there were all the kids in the elementary school and I became close with a few of the younger ones even though we had the language barrier, all kids like to be chased and picked up and look at funny faces that we make and for that we don't need to speak the same language.  There are two that jump out at me specifically and they are Neyha and Henry.  Some of you may remember Neyha who was a wonderful outgoing little girl that made my day every time she talked to me.  Henry is always going to special to me because I never understood what he saw in me but he always wanted to be with me in my arms, but why question it?

Last year I was blessed to have 3 little girls in my life.  Srey Pich is about 4 years old and she was the daughter of one of the staff I worked with in Jombok Haos, I was able to see her almost everyday.  Then there's Amelie and Jarrah the 2 daughters of my american boss in Preah Vihear.  I spent so many Sabbath afternoons with these girls and ran around and around their house.  They never tired of that game. When Jarrah stayed in JBH people would ask me if she was my daughter, I never saw the resemblance haha

Now here I am in Egypt.  Here on the NUA campus there's one little girl that again has decided that playing with me isn't so bad after all.  She's a five year old Egyptian and seems very bright and is picking up English really quickly.  Her name is Donna, she can be a bit of a nuisance sometimes but she's getting better, or so I've heard.

I feel like God has prepared me to take every new step in my life since I've been on my adventures.  Every new step I take will prepare me for the step after that step and so forth, so you want to hear the scary part of what this post is about?  Could God be preparing me to have children someday?????  I know mom would like that.  If you would have asked me to take care of your 3 - 8 year old child 2 years ago I would've said no and you're crazy for asking me.  Now, well, it wouldn't be the worst thing ever ;)  Besides its always best to practice on kids who aren't your own right?

Welcome to Egypt!

Alright so I've been in Egypt for almost 2 weeks and things are going pretty well.  I'm sharing my apartment with 3 other guys, 2 from Washington state and one from North Carolina.  We have a bathroom and two rooms that each have AC and wireless internet throughout the campus of the school where we're living.  Not so bad.

School starts tomorrow so I'me excited to to start doing what I came here to do, that is teach.  I'll be teaching 3 different math classes and a geography class in the first semester and a government class the second semester.  I'm very happy to be teaching classes that I should know well.  The people here are somewhat similar to Cambodians.  The biggest exception is that all these people are Muslims instead of laid back Buddhists.  And trust me that's a pretty big difference, but if you can look past the religious part it seems to me that the people are quite similar.  Kind, love white people and live in what we would consider to be very dirty places haha

Anyways I suppose I should start taking some pictures to show everyone around but I haven't done that yet.  I'm still getting used to life here and I'm sure things will change a lot once school starts but so far so good!