Kingdom of Wonders

 It's been one week since I left the layed back chil island life style and entered into the busy hot crowded rushed life style of Cambodia. The moment we arrived we cramed into a small tuk-tuk and drove in to the craziness of the streets of phnom phen. The streets are filled with tons of cars, tuk-tuks,motorcycle honking at each other driving on the side walks and driving so close to you that you can reach out and touch it.  Our team stayed in phenom phen for three days we visited Russian market where were ever you walk you have a vendor pushing some thing in your face saying you buy. We also visited the prison where the inosent prisoners of the Khmara Rushe where kept, And the killing fields. The Khmara Rushe was a genoside of the well educated Khmer people who had professional jobs like teachers, doctors, lawyers, and people who could read. The Khmara Rushe cased a lot of hurt to the Khmer people. It uprooted and destroyed manys normal lives. One thing for me is that before coming to Cambodia I didn't realize  the Khmara Rushe happened. When I first learned about it I thought that it was like to holocoast and happened along time ago, but I soon found out that it had happened during the 70's. When you look around at the people strolling the streets of Cambodia you notice that you don't see many them. From Phnom Phen we hopped  on an eight hour bus ride over to Seam Reap. Seam Reap isn't as busy as Phnom  Phen. The streets are still quite hectic compared to the traffic that I'm used to, but I like it a lot better than Phnom Phen. On Tuesday we started working with our first ministry. Growing up my worst subject in school was English. I was never any good at it and I was so excited when I finished my last English class in high school. Well the ministry we are working with for the next three weeks is teaching English in a village. The first day was a very scary thing to stand in front of seven 14-15 year old students that don't speak the same language as you. Exspecially when you where told that your first day you would be shadowing a teacher and not teaching your self and then when u get there you are told that you are gonna be teaching a Christian values class. When I first stood in front of the class I had no clue what to teach on and the I felt I should share about Jesus's  miricals  I felt pretty confident about my lesson until one of my students as the translator if they where going to learn about Christian values that day. Since then it has been getting easier even though I can't remember a single one of my students names. The biggest prayer request that I have right now is to relate with the people here. I'm finding it very hard to connect with them mainly because of the language difference. Thank you all so much for support and prayers.