Just went back from mission trip !!! The feeling is surreal....I felt that I haven't been gone that long....that the work we did in Seram was a dream....then suddenly I was back here in Surabaya....The first great feeling is that you will appreciate your own bed....so clean and nice.... :)
Anyway...rewinding to the first day of the mission trip, I was feeling so excited cos this is my first trip...so I'm expecting so many things to happen......I was mentally prepared that we will have to live under a tent in a shady church somewhere.....but to my surprise we live in someone's house....great house with a bathroom in each bedroom....so God is good to us first timers....
But the "surprise " doesn't start till the day after...the day when we are all transformed into coolies. I am so shocked to the amount of work that we have to do.....first we have to move all the big bricks into the skeleton that was built last year....we need to make equal stacks of bricks along the wall that we are going to build.....then we need to make cement mix with nothing but shovels.......we work for about 10 hours straight doing all kind of labor with just 1 hour-ish lunch break.... the first day of work was the worst.....I felt the pain in all my muscles.....so that day all of us is using 3 layers of different ointments in our body....when the girls in SS team come over, they said "hey this place smells like grandpas" ^__^
Day 2 didn't go any better.....we can't sleep cos the weather is so hot.......moreover we started earlier at 5 am....so the back pain and sore legs are so "fun" to have.....
Day 3 is the day that all the pain is sinking in...I got sick from masuk angin....and I drank all kinds of meds that I have.....put some minyak angin all over my body....I was ready to give up....then SS team is coming over and prayed for all of us.....and the prayer worked ^^p I was healed the next day and ready to work again....
The rest of the days are fun..altho mixed with friction here and there......we joke around a lot....talking about us as sissy coolies...that we always wear sunscreen....if a real coolie works like us, all the salary will be gone by the end of the week =)
And there are some memorable quotes made by the team members, like :
"Wan le..mei yu lik" - translation : it's gone, I have no more power
"The only thing that keeps us standing is our pride"
"We work like coolie, eat like coolie...and finally act like coolie...." - sorry for the cat calls ladies =P
All in all...altho this is a "mild" mission trip compared to others, it took me all my strength to finish it. One thing that Mission Trip teaches me is that to push my limit beyond what I normally do. To push through my sickness and tiredness and keep working.....but i know that it's not the purpose of the whole thing...so I was waiting for God to explain to me what this trip means to me....what He wanna say..He keeps quiet until I watch the movie "the Bucket List" I felt that God is telling me to make a list of all things I want to do before He called me back.....that now is the time I have to start planning for the future....for some reason i see me my own funeral....with my pic in every mission trip there is :)
So.....to all of you who haven't tried it, please do...at least you got one thing you can cross of the Bucket List .... God bless you all...and thanks for the prayers during the trip..... ^__^
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hmm...that vision of your funeral and mission trip pics...does that mean that maybe you would not just join mission trips but also organize them so that there would be more of it and more people can experience it? Ohh...ilung, the mission director..what say you?
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