Thursday, June 07, 2007

Bangladesh Journal: Thursday June 29, 2006

Today started out rough. I felt really sick to my stomach, but I went to breakfast in hopes of settling it. That didn’t happen. I threw up. So I stayed in bed until lunch. Everyone else, but Rachel, ran errands and took rickshaws around town. Rachel and I played one set of cards, slept, I puked one other time, and she had traveler’s diarrhea. But we talked a lot which was good.
After lunch we went to HEED (Heather Education Economics Development) of Bangladesh. The whole time I heard this guy talk, I thought about how my Dad could make a partnership with them and his idea for a Missional Corp. They were really nice and fed us snacks and gave us chai tea. Then we came back.
We had Internet access, so we took turns. While we waited I played cards with people. I learned Sarah’s game of ‘Oh Nuts!” and I won. We also played Kinds Cornered, which was fun. Then we ran out of time for the Internet because we had dinner. Everyone before had 25-30 minutes; the people after dinner only had 10 minutes. That kind of really sucked. I was kind of mad. It had been such a hard sucky day that I could have cried and I expressed this in an email (maybe a bad idea).
Then after I was done with the Internet I went to get my cards. I heard people laughing and I went to see what was up. Beth, Lauren, Andrew, Nohemiah, and Elias (BSFB staff) were talking and joking. God knew I needed laughter and community so He provided it. We laughed so hard. Elias (who I now call Charlie) was trying to eat but couldn’t. After laughing so hard we went to bed. I then got to talk to Adriel and Sarah with Lauren. That was more community that I needed. Praise God who provides all things.

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