Day 2

Day 2

Today has been a grand adventure. We awoke this morning to a lovely buffet. I love seeing what other countries eat for breakfast as it is far different from the American diet. Our spread included lentil curry, potatoes, hotdogs and veggies, a soup, pasta, and an assortment of other meat items. The Indian food was quite delicious. Following breakfast we headed down to see the train since people ride on the top and sides. It was incredible to walk through the streets and see the different ways people travel and the completely different way people live.

It’s not better or worse per say, just different than what we are used to. It makes me feel so much gratitude for the systems we have in place like how to deal with trash. Walking down the streets and having trash piled everywhere, goats and cows walking through the trash, the river and sewer completely polluted, made me extra grateful for our trash cans. You know what was awesome, I saw a man collecting plastic to recycle. Made me think of you Greet Team.

From there we went to the airport to get on another flight to Cox’s Bazar. The experience was way different than in America. You will see in the video that you just walk out to the plane and get on. There are not a lot of regulations.

Upon arrival we were able to begin our service by packing food which we will take to the refugee camps tomorrow. They are given a monthly allotment but it’s not enough food so Hope and Amal supplement the allotments. They get rice, lentils, potatoes, onions, and cooking oil.

It’s pretty hot and humid here so when we got back everyone was excited to shower and sleep but as you saw in the video.... the shower was full of black sludge. Do you know what we did in a situation like this? We laughed. A lot.

I think that’s the most important thing I want you to learn about today. Sometimes things don’t go as planned, sometimes things are bad, sometimes they are really bad but we can control how we react. It’s not easy for me and it’s something I’m working on all the time but we have control. We can choose how we respond and how we react to things that happen to us. So when the shower turned black... we laughed and moved forward. I hope this week you can remember to choose your reactions and make them good choices.

Make good choices. Do good. Be kind.

Miss you guys!