Exotic food

Since comming to the philippines ive eaten alot of lets say "exotic" things. Normally, when I think of the word, I picture lush jungles, white sandy beaches, serene ocean views. But what ive learned is that exotic and food don't belong in the same sentence. Well all this is just to tell you about one of the nastiest things that have ever passed my lips and there have beeen of lot of them. Here's my top10 exotic foods ranging from bearable to most nasty... enjoy :-)

10) Frog. yum
9) Monotor Lizard adobo. lizard mixed with potatoes and a red sauce. it acutally does taste like chicken!
8) Snake- yeah... it tastes liek fish...kinda..Def not chicken
7) Young bamboo
6) Sisig- its pig brains with spices and it actually dosent taste bad.
5) Chicken feet- its self explanitory
4) Barbacued chicken intestine- Not everyting grilled is necessarily good!
3) Ocotupus cooked in it own ink- Looks like a nasty twist on fruit loops soaked in motor oil
2) Balot- a half developed chicken/ duck egg hard boilled
1) Pig intestines (and misc. other innards) boiled in pigs blood. it looked like chocolate. (Oh how i whish it tasted like it.) I think I'm going to be sick just thinking about it. Why did i eat it you ask? I don't really know. I was dared. I could win fear factor no problem!

Flood

Usually I enjoy surprises. but this morning i woke up to the tune of 2 inches of water in my 2ND floor apartment. Yeah. Apparently we had a typhoon last night and my windows were left open and my porch flooded and water poured in! thankfully there was no damage but my living room and balcony was literally a swimming pool. I spent a few hours this morning scooping up water and throwing it over the porch while using a squeegee to get rid of the water in the bed room kitchen and living room. The rice fields were flooded as well they were under a good 2 feet of water and it was actually pretty to look at. each terrace had a waterfall and behind them was a beautiful rainbow reminding me that God said he would never again flood the whole world.. he didn't make any promises about my apartment. go figure! Well the house needed to be cleaned anyways.

Tensions

well last week the police were here and you know the deal, they tried to accuse us of all sorts of things, from kidnapping to selling kidneys on the black market... I hear you can get $20,000 per! Wow! I should sell one! Anyways, Now we have received some threats so were upping the security around the orphanage. But we know that God is in control and only he can protect us. This is how I see it: the orphanage is doing what its supposed to, glorifying God and proclaiming the Good news of Jesus Christ. And the devil doesn't want that. So we have encountered so opposition But we know the Lord is on our side and his plans cannot be thwarted. I read in psalm 37 today and its all about what will happen to the wicked man. He will not prosper but will fade away and his plans will come to ruin. I am confident that God's work will go forward and his will will be done here. The Lord is Good. His promises are sure, and those who put their trust in him are never dissappointed!

running from the police and killing cobras

Okay so did i get your attention?
Yesterday was quite an exciting day. As you might have guessed. The police came to do an inspection of the school and orphanage or so we thought. We had a program prepared for then but when the got here all they wanted to do was accuse the orphanage of kidnapping kids. Which is just crazy. But anyways they borough two kids who we had never seen before and said that we kidnapped them. Only problem is that the kids stories didn't line up and after long ordeal they said that the police had threatened them and told them what to say. Then the police/ prosecutor immediately took the same kids and left. So we are praising God for his protection of the orphanage. But please also pray for the kids who were being threatened by the police. The police are after money and corruption is the norm here not the exception. That's the short version. I'm still trying to figure it out since I don't speak Tagalog but i am being tutored now so i understand a little.

Right after the police and all the attorneys left we found a cobra in the gym. And a few of the staff killed it. I latter found out that they actually killed 4 cobras yesterday afternoon. Oh and by the way I took the boys camping last night in the soccer field by the school. Needless to say we ended up all sleeping in my apartment! Well that's about all the excitement for now. Thanks for your continued prayers.