COSI

Cambodia Mission trip-Day 1

The first day, has been a pretty eventful day. Even before departing for Phnom Pehn, our flight was delayed to some error on the side of the airlines. Nevertheless, God still brought as through the 2 hours flight safely and also, clearing through customs without being stopped and inspected. I was abit nervous of being stopped as we were bringing in medical supplies without declaring it to customs.

One of the Missionaries from COSI picked us up from the airport and since we were slightly hungry, decided to stop by along the way, to have some beef noodles. The noodles were awesome! Really tender meat pieces and and the noodles were really smooth and tasty too. The best part? It only costs 2 USD. Can you imagine. Even the coffee was really good too. It was really value for money spent on such great yet cheap stuffs.

We then met the older youths and brought them out for a lunch buffet. To think we just had a meal prior to the buffet, we were going to start eating again! But I guess, that our stomach had some space left to chow down some more food items. I should mention something at this point though. Our flight was at 630 am. As such, we had to meet at 430 am to check-in. Most if not all of us, had not gotten adequate rest and by the lunch buffet, most of us was craving for some much needed sleep! In between traveling from one destination to the next, most of us were cat-napping along the way. It was that bad.

After lunch, we dropped them off back the Methodist Mission School and we proceeded on to stocking up necessities for the team. As the water at the hostel we would be staying at is non-portable, we had to stock up on mineral bottles of water and also, to get some comfort food as it is quite inaccessible for the team to return back for more items as, the hostel is quite a distance away. We then made our way back to the hostel itself- the main highlight of the day!

The path to the hostel was terribly rocky as, it was filled with potholes. It was indeed a really bumpy ride. The moment we got down from the van, we could see the kids running to greet us! Especially those whom the kids were familiar with. We settled stocking up the medical supplies first before, exploring the place and interacting more with the kids. Dinner was provided by the hostel as well and it was no wonder, that the other team members were saying that we could put on weight instead of losing any! The food was nice and I was filled by the end of it. Looking forward to day 2's dinner!

After dinner came Vesper. It is a time where, the kids of the hostel come together for a time of devotion. They start off my singing songs and then the village pastor, Mama Yun, will come in to share the gospel to the kids. For today's session, we introduced ourselves to the kids. Really cute bunch! Some of us are new to COSI and they were eager to find out our names and chat with us. Looking forward to working with them in the coming days :)

We will be starting devotion tomorrow. Guess who's doing first? I hope I'm adequately prepared!