July 2009
6 posts
A quote that a sweet friend sent me.
Yet the grief I feel is sweet as well as bitter. I still have a sorrowful soul: yet I wake up each morning joyful, eager for what the new day will bring. Never have I felt as much pain…yet never have I experienced as much pleasure in simply being alive…Never have I felt so broken; yet never have I felt so whole. Never have I been so aware of my weakness and vulnerability; yet never have I been so...
Changes.
I haven’t blogged in a while… I feel like these past two weeks have been a whirlwind filled with unending ups and downs. Camp the past two weeks has been more difficult for me in that I found it a little bit harder to connect with the kids than in the previous weeks. They were younger kids, and I expected that it would be a breeze to be around youngsters all summer long.
This week on my team I...
DREADS!
Today we went to visit our campers from last week at the group homes they live at… and I gave one of my favorite girls, Magda, dreads. It was the greatest thing I have ever done… it took forever and they looked so ballin and I am so happy.
I sure do love Romania
That is all.
Camp... Week 2
I feel like I still have so much to process from this week, and I also feel like no matter what I write in this blog, it wouldn’t begin to capture how awesome this week was for me. Like I mentioned in my last post, we worked with kids our own age this week… from their late teens to early 20’s. I thought it might be difficult to connect with them, but honestly nothing has ever come so naturally for...
The Gypsy Village
Yesterday two of the other interns and I got to join the Irish team in going into a gypsy village about 30 minutes outside of TM. This little day trip ended up being an unexpected little treat for me. As soon as our team arrived, children came running out of the streets and grabbing our hands and wanting us to hold them. I painted some nails for about an hour and then made flower crowns with some...
Week one.
Week one at camp is complete, and I can’t believe how much I loved it. Honestly, I think I had more fun than the kids most of the time. We had a great group from Northern Ireland serving with us this week and they added lots of spunk to camp Vetca. The kids on my team were absolutely hilarious… we lost every single event, but they were so happy to be there that they didn’t seem to care...