7/10

Well, it was the last day of the camp. It seems like its been a long time and yet a short time. We will be leaving tomorrow, which nobody really wants. I am gonna miss the kids and everybody. Well, during the last day, there was a lot of picture taking and talking. This was also the day that our group finally went to talk with the kids after the camp. Chester, Sunny, Ruby, Leo, and I went to eat shaved ice.

Sigh, I need to put things into chronological order. I am going to write everything that happened, if I remember it. So in the morning, we woke up and did our usual routine. When we arrived at the school, the difference between societies miles and miles apart could be seen. The students were already assembled outside for an assembly when we got there at like 8:10 in the morning. I was really shocked because the students did that every morning, every day. However, we couldn’t stay around and watch the students so we started preparing for our final day. Suddenly, a couple students wandered in at like around 8:30 so the whole team, including Taiwan co-workers started to interact with them. As more and more students came in, more activities were performed. Jason started to teach us how the freeze, a watermelon game started somewhere, Andrea was either being chased by someone or doing the chasing, and finally, Josh was towering over little kids playing red light green light. My life cannot be normal I think. Stephanie, a kid in my group, told me that someone else likes me, thinks in cute and handsome, and that I’m her Jesus??? (Josh would love this when he sees it) Apparently, it was Jenny, who kept on staring at me for a while. Me, being the incredibly smart person I am, I decided to ignore her and try to run away. After what seemed like an eternity, which happens when you are having fun, the camp started. We started with Sing and Play review. It was scheduled for 20 minutes, which was already cut short, but we finished in like 10. Then we went back to our classrooms to play Monopoly, VGM version. I think I dozed off since I don’t remember much but I do remember me sitting around hitting a ping pong ball with a paddle that I found in the classroom. Then it was lunch. :P Taiwanese lunches are soooooo pro compared to those in America. The food would be delivered to class and students would use their own utensils to eat. Oddly, for the past few days, I could not eat much, so I took Chester’s bowl and had some tea again. After a refreshing cold drink, I went to find Jason where he was practicing the guitar. Sadly, that was the worst decision I made all week, accidentally breaking the silence rule also couldn’t match up. Let’s just say that a certain someone was staring at me with a camera in one hand. Lunch was over and our STM Q & A session begun. We first played the movie to an entourage of the equivalent of an American Awwwwwww, at least only for me. I was told, that I am the “handsome” one this year, while for the last, it was Eric. Then we answered the questions that we had the students write beforehand. The questions that we chose could be related to the gospel. However, there wasn’t a lot so we asked if there was some more. However, being the typical shy group, it took a lot of urging before a kid had enough courage. The question was the one that everybody could guess: “Do you have a girlfriend?” I was like, in my mind of course, “UGH. Why does it matter so much anyways? It’s not like you have one.” However, Josh saved us by saying that Jason didn’t have one and was available at the moment. There were no more questions so we went to the graduation ceremony. There, we passed out certificates to every group and had each group perform a skit. The most epic one was group 4 where they impersonated the staff. Then we went back for our final lesson. This was where the kids really opened their hearts. They were supposed to draw a card that had an emotion and a bible verse on the back. The students asked many questions about the bible verse which really touched me since they actually cared. We then spent the last few minutes taking pictures and saying bye. This was when I realized that Jenny was holding a camera because she wanted to take a picture with me. I was like o.O but I can’t really deny a person anything so I took it with her. (Let’s hope I survive to senior year) As I mentioned before, Chester, Sunny and I went to eat shaved ice with Ruby and Leo. When we walked back, Jason, Paul, and Yutting were going to a kid’s house and had an extra space. Of course, I joined, since its fun. This was when God just touched me. The kid’s house looked pretty dilapidated on the outside, but quoting Jason, the inside was better than his house. God told me that appearances are deceiving and we can’t judge things based on how they look from the outside. This is the reason we are in no position to judge anybody at all. Only God can see into a person. Not you, not me, not any living person on this world, but only our true and living God that is awaiting us in heaven.