It s Friday night, 25 November, 2011.
It s been 2 months already since I wrote last time anything about my life.
2 months ago I left Australia. Wow, time has gone quickly and many things have happened.
We went to Cambodia for 3, 5 half weeks and then we went to Hong Kong for another 3 weeks.
We teached some english to local kids and sometimes
just played few games with them.
They were pretty good in english thanks to local guy
Vuthy,who had turned his own home into the
basethat basically funcioned as school,
church and their home.
This picture above is taken I think a bit further away from the
place we stayed, the place what was home to Vuthy.
That s the river, we had to cross to enter the island and visit villages on it.
It s one the first moments after we crossed the river and hit the island. That was the first and only
island that we reached with gospel too.
"injuries" during the flight from Cambodia to Hong Kong and now it doesn t get the clear picture on it.
I can t use it anymore. Well I need to fix it, maybe on Sunday I might have a time to walk in Perth and see if I can find any computer store that can fix my laptop. I do have some good videos and pictures from North Queensland and other stuff that I haven t really showed to anyone via internet like facebook or any other blogsite that I was using in times.
However, there s been a lot of stuff that I ve been through and maybe that busy life has been one of the main reasons that I haven t written anything about my recent life, anyways, I hope I still remember the most that has stood out and I can bring it for the memories.
Video clip from the village and some more pictures from Cambodia:
Fe and Maddie cut my hair today, I mean they shaved it basically, almost though, not really but I look
like bald man I guess. That is also something that hasn t happened to me for years already, perhaps last time it was when I was in late teens or in early 20 s. Now I m already 28. Fe just told me today:
"Hey, you don t look like 28".
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"You look like 24".
Here s the video.
And then she explained that I actually don t sound like 28. That normal 28 years old guys are tired and I sound younger. I thought it must be to do something with people around me. She just turned 20 and also other people in my group that I ve been together last 5 months are all younger than me.
But to be honest, sometimes it was also hard to me. I even thought it was a problem and I couldn t find any solid topic to talk with them. All of us are from different countries. 7 people from 7 differnet countries.
Obviously it wasn t just me who had trouble with one another and maybe it wasn t just age that was
problem. But it can happen to anyone.
Just yesterday, I had one on one with my leader Adam and I told him things that I should have said perhaps before.. Perhaps much earlier than yesterday. It would have been way easier for myself but for some reason I couldn t or didn t want to say as I thought it might bring some difficulties into group and I decided to not annoy people with my thoughts that annoyed me. I m deffinitely not person who holds things back from the others and hides things from people, but it was something that I pondered that if I say, it might bring too much inconvieniences into group and in some point I decided to not tell to my leader what was annoying me the most. Well, I told him basically everything about the others and thing that bothered me and things that made me happy but I didn t never go into the deep discussions about himself. Though I mentioned something earlier and it wasn t very clearly expressed, but as it was burning lil bit inside me I decided to do it and I did it yesterday. So I told him what bothered me the most about him and even about churches and about Bible.
I told him that he was one of the reasons that made me think of churches as a powerful unity that
works just for its own purposes. He sounded so commanding sometimes and I didn t like it at all.
I asked him why should I work for unity that is so commanding and doesn t let its followers to ask questions or give some advises.
"I m open to learn and I am willing to change to be better leader. I m sorry..I didn t mean to be
commanding in personal level, I just wanted things to be done quickly and there was no urge for having fun of commanding", he told me then.
Suddenly I felt so much peace and relax that I finally told him what was bothering me.
"I planned to not go into this discussion, I was thinking that it s just few weeks until the descipleship training school is finished and I can forget everything. I thought I don t have to bring this uncomfort
into group and therefore I never told you that before", I added.
Anyways, now it s done and life moves on.
Later on in the evening we watched Rio, today was good day, after all responsibilities we gathered in Adam s place again and watched another movie.
"Sometimes love comes softly"..
Another interesting and a bit funny story how I made a friend during the mission trip to Asia, to
Cambodia and Hong Kong.
Hong Kong was impressive. Full of people. People everywhere, people were also way different to
the people in Cambodia, but I would skip Hong Kong for a while now and talk more about Cambodia.
People in Cambodia were I would say more like shy, but also friendly. Didn t feel any danger anywhere I went. It was funny for me that we couldn t walk on our own. I mean, I m 28 and I need to stay with people when I go out? I realised again that I can t stand groups where I m stuck, where someone always tells me what I have to do and I need to consider with them often. Now it sounds
like I don t like people. That s not true. I just love travel sometimes alone and love to discover on my
own.
Anyway, even it was hard to me, I did it. We became friends. We got to know more about each other, and it became easyier and easyier later on as we grew together.
Now story about how I became friend, I would say good friend with one of my team members.
There was girl that I didn t understand and we quite didn t even like each other in first weeks. One day she told me:
"Viljo, I m sorry that I chose to not be friends with you."
It was late and I understood it s not a time to ask why, but I forgave her. I already had
plan to go and talk to her, why she acted like she did. Though we couldn t talk much about that, as we had rules, that girl and boy can t have one on ones, which was another ridicilous rule, that I hated. Why?
Anyway, next day I found time to talk to her on day light.
It was interesting talk I remember. We didn t know much about each other, but after that day we became better friends. Now I can say that I m even a bit sad that this school is finishing in a week
and she is not staying here. Yes, that s funny that we didn t like each other and now we are so good
friends.
Erwin has taken photo. Good timing.
Anyway I m happy that I made a new friend. Friends are necessary. Life is about friends and
relationships. Without good relations we can t have nice life. Money doesn t replace good friends
or good relations. Good friends are priceless. I appreciate them the most.
I m happy that I have made new friends during that school, during that outreach, during
that time I have spent with them. All the way from Perth- Cambodia to Hong Kong.
Now I ve been back in Perth already over month, other teams have arrived. Just one team arrived
Africa, from Mosambique. It s cool to hear lot s of stories what they have been through. One more team
is still coming, in an hour or 2 there will be 2 more teams coming. One is coming from Thailand and
another is coming back from Bangladesh. Many teams.
Now I finish.
Perhaps add more stories and pictures what happened in Hong Kong but also here in Perth.
11. December. 2011
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