A Final Thank You

I have now been back home for two weeks and I think I am mostly adjusted. It has been a mixture of emotions being home. There are days when I am so happy to be home and around my family and friends again but other days when I miss my new family and friends and just being able to talk to people who went through the same things I did. God has been great with helping me adjust and getting involved with different programs. I am currently looking for a full time job and just plan on saving up money, no school for me this year. Hopefully next year! I want to thank you for reading my blog. I loved updating you on what I was given the opportunity to do. For those of you who supported me financially, thank you thank you thank you. I would not have been able to go without you. I know that a lot of you were praying for my safe return and I thank you for all those prayers! This is the end of my Cambodia Adventures, I can't wait until my next adventure! :)

The ending is near...

The last night in Cambodia was the perfect way to end. After our amazing dinner with our team, Heather, Kayla, Kristin and I took some pictures together and had a fun girly time. Then Justin, Taylor, Heather and I went down to the beach. We just sat on the sand, listening to the ocean and looking at the stars, talking about how amazing our time was. The next day and a half was so hectic and confusing because of the 14 hour time change. We took a bus back to Phnom Phen to catch our 6 hour flight to Korea. We had a 12 hour layover and I, along with 10 others, went into the city and shopped around. I got to see Nanhee who showed us around Korea last time. It was a great day and then it had to end by us getting on our 10 hour flight to Seattle. It was hard. We left Korea at 6pm on Friday and arrived in Seattle at 1pm on Friday. Yes that's right. We went back in time. I am surprisingly not really jet legged because I didn't let myself sleep until the normal time when we got home. I stayed up by going to Seattle with Kayla and going to her place and out for dinner. Then yesterday morning we had our final meeting all together. We all met and had brunch with our major sponsors and thanked them for everything they did. After that the leaders all got to say something to us students. Oh my gosh I am going to miss everyone so much. I’m not too freaking out about leaving them all, because I know without a doubt that I will be seeing them again, probably soon. After our meeting I drove Kayla to the airport and Heather came with me. I love those girls like crazy, can’t wait until we meet up again in 3 weeks. Today I went to Seattle with Heather, Jenae and Taylor to go shopping. I’m just about to go to church and then everyone is going their separate ways. Ill be back in Canada tomorrow and have mixed feelings about it. I can't wait to be home but I don't want to leave. My body is beat up so I'm happy to go finally go to a doctor and get everything checked out. Ill make sure to write in here at least one more time. God has been so amazing this summer. My world was turned upside down for the better, despite how hard some of it was.

Team=Family

Tonight my outreach team went out for dinner together. It hit me how much I love them and seriously view them as my family. The 11 of us decided to tell each person one thing that stood out to us about each other. Staring with Patrick we all said one thing about him then moved on to Heather and so on. It made me realize what I have learned from each person over the last 3 months and how much they have impacted me. It was also SOOO encouraging hearing what they had to say to me. I'm so thankful that God had our teams perfectly planned out because we worked with each other so well. The ease in which we make fun of each other and yet the seriousness in which we build each other up was amazing to observe at dinner. Today was really cool because 6 of the students got baptized in the ocean. Tonight's debriefing was really good and kind of in an open mic setting. Some people encouraged leaders, some asked bible questions and other asked practical questions. It was a really good ending to our last night it Cambodia. Tomorrow we leave in the afternoon for the airport, our plane leaves at 11pm. We have a 12 hour layover in Seoul, Korea and then we begin our flight back to the U.S.A. See you soon!