I've had lots of questions about what things looked like, where we stayed, what we were doing, etc. So I wanted to share one of my 'tour videos' that I tried to take every place we stayed, it should give you a pretty good idea of what an average village looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S-C_Z-3l8Q
Umm I guess I'm not entirely sure what more to share about Peru. If anyone is actually following this, you should leave me comments with questions or send me a message on facebook and tell me what you want to hear!
In the meantime, I've got a job interview for another restaurant tomorrow, Malones in Maple Grove. It's new, so I hadn't heard of it either. Being home is like my least favorite thing in the world. I hate spending money, I hate not being able to sleep, I hate being away from my YWAM family, and the past couple days especially I've been really missing my camp friends too. I don't know, I've been frustrated lately, but not as much as I expected to be. I guess it's because I know I'm going back and that it's not that far away. But yeah, my newsletter update thing will be going out this next week, so hopefully that will be a better update than this is for those of you that keep up with my life.
Shalom friends. Seriously, if there's anything you actually want me to blog about, (stories, questions, whatever) let me know :)
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Peru Outreach Slideshow!
This is the video slideshow Jo worked on for countless hours. I provided the pictures but she did everything else. I know lots of you have already seen this because it's on facebook and we showed it on graduation night, but for anybody that hasn't seen it... Enjoy :)
Apparently Virginia Is For Lovers
Sorry about this really late update guys. Obviously I'm home now. Things have been a little chaotic, especially the first week back (debrief week), and then I just spent a week in Virginia hanging out with Caitlin, a friend from the Russia team, so I've been trying to upload pictures and videos on facebook then realized I've been totally neglecting my blog. But I don't want anyone to get the idea that I won't be using this anymore. I definitely won't update as often (not that I could much in Peru anyway) for the next couple months, but I am planning on going back to the SOMD -School Of Ministry Developement, the second school following the DTS I just completed-. So I would love for anyone following this now to keep the link, check back every once in a while, and then have your connection to my updates in my next lecture phase and outreach!
I'm not really sure where to start... Debrief week, being home (America...ugh), or future plans.
Alright, debrief week was crazy because I was spending every spare minute going through everybody's pictures and getting the best 300 on a disk, something I was supposed to do because I was team photographer. I was also giving those pictures to Jo so she could work on the slideshow we made for graduation night. Everything went wrong a million different times, we stayed up soooo late -more than once-, and all I really wanted to do was spend time with my friends that I knew would be leaving in however many days and I wouldn't be able to see them again for months. It was so much more frustrating than necessary, but we finally got both things done around 3:30 AM on graduation day. Ha.
Graduation night was a blurr... Everything leading up to it and directly after was pretty surreal. After 5 months of never getting away from these friends that are now pretty much family, it was just ending and half the school was leaving that night to go home. All I can really say is thank God for skype. But some fabulous friends of mine from Minneapolis came to see me graduate so that was nice, although I felt bad because my brain was being pulled in so many different directions I'm not sure I paid a lot of attention to them.
Coming home... is weird. Pretty much every single meal makes me sick (my body is no longer used to crazy amounts of sugar, chocolate, and preservatives). It's getting a little better now that it's been so long since I got home, but you'd think I'd be totally back to normal by now. Yeah, not true. Today I was finally able to drink a whole cup of pop without gagging once, but up until that point this afternoon, my poor tummy was still upset about the greasy pizza I ate last night when I was still in Virginia.
Speaking of Virginia, I had been planning to go stay with Cait since before I left on Outreach. A lot of people are thinking it was a random trip that I just had spare change for. Definitely not, I had been planning it and looking forward to it for months. When I was there, we were a little sad because we wanted to do a lot of things like go hiking and have bonfires but it rained a lot and places weren't open, but it was still much needed and much enjoyed quality time with one of my favorite people :)
Other than food though, it's not so much America that's bugging me, more just feeling very restless, un-productive, and annoyed at excessiveness. This should probably be a whole blog in itself honestly. It's hard to describe what I'm going through right now -reverse culture shock isn't really that shocking, it's just not motivating me in any way to do things anymore- and I'm having a very hard time feeling like this is where I belong. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it's just proving to me once again that I was not cut out to live a "comfortable" life.
For those of you that are concerned, I have gone job hunting and still am applying at places, mostly restaurants because I've had experience serving and it's quick money. I've got interviews set up for next week and a temporary job until I get hired which is hopefully very soon. But like I said before, I am planning on going back to the YWAM base in June to start the second school. I'm sure I'll talk more about that later. Right now the plan is to work, possibly more than one job, save up, go back in the summer, and see where God takes me from there.
Prayer requests:
-motivation
-loneliness (having 8 roommates for 2 months down to none is one of the biggest shocks for me. I thought I'd love it. I'm a person that needs my alone time, I need space and privacy. and now I hate that I don't have my YWAMers with me)
-job interviews!!!! (first one is at Red Lobster, woo!)
-this applies to everyone in my school. we're all very nervous about how depressed it seems we might get because of the reverse culture shock and being away from the supportive family we have in each other. I guess it doesn't quite make sense the bond we have when you've never experienced something like this, but it's really really hard for all of us right now to be back in the real world where temptation is everywhere and accountability is not.
Thanks so much everyone for following as much as you did, whether your name is Kathy Duffy or whether you read one post. I appreciate any kind of prayer and support I can get, especially the prayer part. I need it, and I'm sure that won't change anytime soon :)
I'm not really sure where to start... Debrief week, being home (America...ugh), or future plans.
Alright, debrief week was crazy because I was spending every spare minute going through everybody's pictures and getting the best 300 on a disk, something I was supposed to do because I was team photographer. I was also giving those pictures to Jo so she could work on the slideshow we made for graduation night. Everything went wrong a million different times, we stayed up soooo late -more than once-, and all I really wanted to do was spend time with my friends that I knew would be leaving in however many days and I wouldn't be able to see them again for months. It was so much more frustrating than necessary, but we finally got both things done around 3:30 AM on graduation day. Ha.
Graduation night was a blurr... Everything leading up to it and directly after was pretty surreal. After 5 months of never getting away from these friends that are now pretty much family, it was just ending and half the school was leaving that night to go home. All I can really say is thank God for skype. But some fabulous friends of mine from Minneapolis came to see me graduate so that was nice, although I felt bad because my brain was being pulled in so many different directions I'm not sure I paid a lot of attention to them.
Coming home... is weird. Pretty much every single meal makes me sick (my body is no longer used to crazy amounts of sugar, chocolate, and preservatives). It's getting a little better now that it's been so long since I got home, but you'd think I'd be totally back to normal by now. Yeah, not true. Today I was finally able to drink a whole cup of pop without gagging once, but up until that point this afternoon, my poor tummy was still upset about the greasy pizza I ate last night when I was still in Virginia.
Speaking of Virginia, I had been planning to go stay with Cait since before I left on Outreach. A lot of people are thinking it was a random trip that I just had spare change for. Definitely not, I had been planning it and looking forward to it for months. When I was there, we were a little sad because we wanted to do a lot of things like go hiking and have bonfires but it rained a lot and places weren't open, but it was still much needed and much enjoyed quality time with one of my favorite people :)
Other than food though, it's not so much America that's bugging me, more just feeling very restless, un-productive, and annoyed at excessiveness. This should probably be a whole blog in itself honestly. It's hard to describe what I'm going through right now -reverse culture shock isn't really that shocking, it's just not motivating me in any way to do things anymore- and I'm having a very hard time feeling like this is where I belong. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it's just proving to me once again that I was not cut out to live a "comfortable" life.
For those of you that are concerned, I have gone job hunting and still am applying at places, mostly restaurants because I've had experience serving and it's quick money. I've got interviews set up for next week and a temporary job until I get hired which is hopefully very soon. But like I said before, I am planning on going back to the YWAM base in June to start the second school. I'm sure I'll talk more about that later. Right now the plan is to work, possibly more than one job, save up, go back in the summer, and see where God takes me from there.
Prayer requests:
-motivation
-loneliness (having 8 roommates for 2 months down to none is one of the biggest shocks for me. I thought I'd love it. I'm a person that needs my alone time, I need space and privacy. and now I hate that I don't have my YWAMers with me)
-job interviews!!!! (first one is at Red Lobster, woo!)
-this applies to everyone in my school. we're all very nervous about how depressed it seems we might get because of the reverse culture shock and being away from the supportive family we have in each other. I guess it doesn't quite make sense the bond we have when you've never experienced something like this, but it's really really hard for all of us right now to be back in the real world where temptation is everywhere and accountability is not.
Thanks so much everyone for following as much as you did, whether your name is Kathy Duffy or whether you read one post. I appreciate any kind of prayer and support I can get, especially the prayer part. I need it, and I'm sure that won't change anytime soon :)
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