Today started off amazingly! Gowri and I went to a hair salon to get our hair shampooed (the water pressure is not the best at the mission house, and my hair was getting disgusting). So we went, and for 2.50$ we had it washed and massaged, rinsed, washed and massaged again, rinsed, conditioned and rinsed, dried and then straightened. Not gonna lie, I may have to go back to get my hair clean before I leave Thursday.... Just something about clean hair made my whole body feel cleaner all day.
We went to a different international church today, one that was a bit bigger and more contemporary. It was so cool worshipping with people from all different races and nations... Gave a glimpse of what heaven will be like some day :).
After church and lunch we went crammed 15 people into a small, hot van and drove to a different village to work with the children in a bible study/game time sort of activity. We played games, taught scripture, two people gave testimonies, and we sang different songs in Khmer. All in all it was a great time, and it was a blessing to see this ministry in action. Then we got back in the small, hot van and sat through rush hour traffic for forever. I felt like I was back at home....lol.
After that and cleaning up, we went to a different Friends restaurant, that serves mainly Khmer dishes. As we were sitting, they brought out two live tarantulas to our table. Naturally I screamed, backed far away from the table, and couldn't work up the nerve to hold one. I tried, I really did, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. However, I did try some cooked tarantula. I ate a VERY small portion of a leg, and was able to get it down quickly and somewhat painlessly. Others in our group were more brave, eating entire spiders whole (which disgusted me). But because they were all being brave, I had to eat a whole leg, which was not as painless as the partial leg. Even with the amazing sauce they had for it, I couldn't get over the fact it was a freaking tarantula's leg. It was like eating very chewy, hairy bacon, but in the form of a creepy crawly spider leg. And now that I've had it, I can brag about it and never have to do it again (hopefully). We then spent the night hearing the stories of two group members, just spending time together in fellowship, which was wonderful.
Tomorrow we are going to visit and AIDS orphanage, and I am supposed to give my testimony. Please pray that I would be able to say what God would have me to say, and that he would be glorified through it all!
That Bizarre Foods show with Andrew Zimmerman was on last week and he was eating tarantulas in Cambodia! Glad you were able to at least handle the leg. Haha.
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