Update

We welcome two new members to our team - Tiffany Hirokawa and Emily Chou from California - who will be with us for the next two weeks.

For the past week we've been working at a tsunami camp about 20 min south in the city of Angulana. Last week they finished around 60 temporary shelters and are currently working on building about 60 more. Also, along with helping with construction we've been helping revamp a run down school inside the camp.

To be honest, is seems at times that the work we do here is useless and unappreciated. Other people can do my work... I'm far from undisposable. But I was amazingly encouraged twice in the past few days. Yesterday after we finished with construction Janet (a Canadian who's worked at Angulana for several months) mentioned that the work had not picked up that day at all until our team had arrived and encouraged everyone to work. It reminded me that not only are we getting work done but we're telling the locals, through our actions, that we love them... and that love, in turn, inspires them to work. And today we worked at the Dutch Reformed Church (we haven't been here for about a week) and Sri, the guy in charge or relief work, gave us T-shirts and thanked us profusely for our work.

To give anyone who's considering coming our a sneak peak... our typical day consists of 1) a group morning prayer/worship session 2) working for 4-8 hours (location changes all the time and duration is dependant on if we need to take care of other things such as Visas, bank, shopping, etc.) 3) eating out 4) relaxing at the apartment playing cards or watching West Wing (the San Diego team left all 3 seasons of it... glory halleluyah). We work hard during the week and play hard on the weekends.