6/23: Lazy in Tag...

Today, Ate´ Mary Jean went to Kapalong to meet with the head macho over there, and so the plans that we had originally made for the day were cancelled. SO, we slept in, ate breakfast at 7am (rice & eggy eggplant), and then went back to bed to relax & TALK!!!!

After lunch (rice, chicken, and bamboo shoots/veggies), we went to Maribel's kindergarten class and taught them "If You're Happy and You Know It" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes".

On the way back, Indaiy (Sir Jun Jun and Ate´ Mary Jean Sabudan's niece) invited us to collect Buko Meat (coconut) with her. That was a blast!!!!

Heading to the Buko Trees

The 'Kid' climbing down the Buko Tree (barefoot). He cut the coconut branch off, and then dropped it down to the ground with a giant thud.

Another guy cutting the ends of the Buko Shell off. (The inner shell is still pretty soft-not hard like they are when the shell is off, so it's easy to cut into it.

Coconuts in the Tree

Indaiy scraping the 'meat' out of the shell

Jordan and her coconut

Yes, I am sitting in the mud, but I figured that since I was going swimming right afterwards, it was no problemo!!! :)

Mary & Indaiy

Coconut Scraping Party!!! (The meat goes in the yellow bucket, and the juice goes in the green container. The 'mat' underneath is a banana leaf.)

All of us (Josiah is in the white shirt). It was really sad, because one of the Buko branches missed the ground, and went through a neighbor's leafy roof, & we could hear glass breaking inside!! Praise the Lord, no one was hurt!!

Afterwards, we went swimming in the River with Josiah (the Sabudan's 12 year old son). After a little while, a bunch of the other kids joined us, & we had a full blown 'Splash War'!!! It started raining about 1/2 way thru our time in the water, thus we didn't get any pictures.... :(

We then went home, showered outside at the pump & then had Buko and Buko Juice with Indaiy. Indaiy is married and has a 3 year old daughter. Her husband works here in Davao, and her daughter is living with her Lola and Lolo (grandparents), while she teaches Preschool there in Tagtapopo-ot. She just started last week, and though she's hoping to be able to see her hubby in a week, she's not sure when she'll be able to see her daughter-that's really hard. I guess this kind of thing happens a lot....absolutely heartbreaking....

We had dinner shortly after (rice, chicken, and broth), and then went to bed. We've been trying to have Bible Time every night together as a group, and tonight, we talked about Romans 8....that was really encouraging...

We are SO blessed in the States....while here, I've learning how even without meaning too, I've taken so much for granted, & even here in the compound, we are so blessed with so much!!!