I'm gonna try not to write too much about our days in Gadingan cos I'd like the others to share their experiences, and we all know that once I start it's hard to stop me hahaha. But I'll write about our first day for now :)
Got up and going fairly promptly on thursday morning and made the five minute walk from our hotel to the airport. Got all checked in and went back to the awesome and cheap food garden for breakfast. Flew to Solo, arrived at 12pm-ish, met at airport by Fera. Went to a noodle place for lunch and learnt some Indonesian food words haha. Everyone brave trying new foods and drinks. Fera told us sorry she hadn't sent us a schedule but the first thing was a service at 5pm that we'd be running. It was for the women of the entire district, so over 100 women, and it was a Christmas service. Oh yup, a Christmas service....never saw that one coming!! Hahaha. Back in the van about 2.30 after lunch and quickly put our heads together during the 15 minute drive to the House of Sinai. Good thing we're all pretty familiar with the christmas story! Spent time at the house of Sinai which Cherie will probably talk about when she writes. I was getting a bit nervous as time was ticking on and we'd had a grand total of 15mins planning time. Fera looked at her watch at 4.45 and just about had a heart attack! Was pretty funny. I wrote my message in the van on the way to Gadingan, we arrived and BANG we were right into it. Not sure if the team was freaking out or not...I was a bit preoccupied still writing my sermon in my head! Got to sing Christmas carols which was pretty alright with me!! Matt less stoked hahaha. Felt message went well, puji tuhan (=praise the Lord in Indonesian) and then fera announced that we were going to sing them a song, so sing them a song we did! Hahaha. Praise the Lord we have Matt on our team. All in all it was pretty fun and I think we totally pulled it off lol. Got a fantastic reception from all the ladies, it was really lovely. Had dinner and got settled, then it was devotions time (about 10pm). Sat down for devotions and once again found out we were running it. Whoops. Cherie stepped up instantly and brought a good word. Puji tuhan again lol.
Took us freakin ages to get our mosquito nets set up which was pretty frustrating cos we just wanted to go to bed. Rigged up a pretty flash system which required Dani, Lissie, and me to all sleep sideways on a double bed. My legs were off the bed from about the knees down haha. Lasted about 1.5 hours before Lissie turned over and our mosquito nets fell down on top of us and we were like flies trapped in a spider web. Couldn't be bothered trying to sort that out lol so left it like that the rest of the night.
Think that was pretty much our day...the others might add some bits ad pieces. I was ridiculously proud of them. The entire day was one spontaneous thing after another and they were all awesome and fully rose to the challenge. Went to bed happy :)
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