Going Somewhere

Here's the beginning of the journal entries that I promised: Well, we've officially been in India for almost 3 hours now. I feel disgusting and look disgusting, but boy does it feel good to be here. We will be in Chennai until tomorrow morning. Then it's a 7 hour train ride and about a 2 hour car ride to our destination (IREF). It still hasn't hit me yet; it all feels so surreal. So the flight to Frankfurt I watched several movies and wrote out my "testimony." During our 3 hour layover (I still don't know where I got 6 from...) I spent $7 (4.50 euros) on a bottle of water! I'm so tired of sitting! The flight to India I slept 5+ hours and watched another movie. We got to spend half a day touring around Chennai. I hope to find some little gifts for the people back home, but we'll see. Tonight (and tomorrow night) we're staying at the YWCA. [Now that I think about it, it was only 1.5 days we were at the YWCA.] The decorations outside are so ...

So Sat. morning my body decided that 7am was a good time wo wake up :) This afforded me time to go deep with the processing. The Friday night thing didn't work so well, because I kept falling asleep (from 7:30pm-9:30pm) while attempting to journal. So I gave up. The Saturday morning "session" ended up working out much better. GOd definitely showed me where I've grown, where I need to grow, etc. It's not something I can put into words yet, but know this: I am so grateful and blessed that I went on the India missions trip. I am still waiting to get the update on the financial outcome of the trip/who gave support ($ and prayer). As soon as I get that, a thank you letter w/a picture will be sent out. Blessings, Kylie

So I've been back in the States since Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3pm. The day after (Jan. 12th) I started classes back up. I have yet to process the trip/what I'm feeling. As promised, I will put my journal entries on here as well, but there will be some parts that are left out... Also, I have my memory card back (we were supposed to give them to Johnny-a teammate-so he could download them to make a picture CD) today! This means that I will be downloading pics to facebook and here. With this, I will try to match pictures to journal entries (if I have the pics). My body for the most part is readjusting; as long as I get 10 hrs of sleep i'm good ;) . I think my mind is taking a little longer to follow. I tend to mull on things and really try to analyze my feelings, but it mostly happens once I seperate myself (physically and/or emotionally) from a situation. Hence the fact that I have yet to process everything. I plan on closeting myself away for a few hours tonight (my r...