It would seem that a lot of the activities of the weekend revolved around food. One of the things that the students appreciate is being out of the dorm and away from the standard dorm food. When we got to the retreat center, we started with a quick session talking about sin. We then continued to a small group discussion and dinner.
After the meal, we had some free times to play games. We thought that it would be appropriate to teach the kids some American games that they weren't familiar with, so we started with 500. As you can see from the picture, Beth was dominant.
We also had a time for games and stories around the campfire.
That night, we were the official adult representatives in the dorms. It was a long night as we waited to the kids (mostly the boys) to quiet down and go to bed. Much of their energy was spent trying to stuff as much junk food into their faces as possible. As mentioned above, this was their chance to get as far away from dorm food as possible. The most popular items were chips, pop, and Korean noodles.
After a couple of hours of sleeping on the floor, we were both awakened by students that felt the need to continue their junk food binge at 6:00 am. The one consolation for this early rousing was the beautiful scenery outside the dorm windows.
After getting dressed, the kids continued to eat. This time it was real food for breakfast.
After breakfast the program called for another session for the students. Rather than simply standing and lecturing to our captive kids about sin, salvation, and service, we tried out best to make things fun and interesting. This involved singing some songs and playing some games. Before you look at these next pictures it is important to understand something about Dave and our friend Jared. To get the kids excited, these two have adopted the personas of professional wrestlers. Jared is dressed in yellow and has the alter ego of "Sunny Delight." Dave dresses in red and has been dubbed "Fruit Punch." These two wresters were the masters of ceremony for the games and, again, things revolved around food. Below you can see a contest to see which student could eat the most rice and दाल (dal, which is a lentil soup). In the second picture, "Fruit Punch" is thoroughly enjoying a game where partners drop interesting food combinations (think of carrots in chocolate sauce and chocolate chunks in blue cheese dressing) into waiting mouths.
With some free time after this session, we decided to teach the kids some more American games. This time it was hacky sack. You can see quite clearly that Dave worked up quite a sweat in the process.
We also took a nice trip up to char dukan at the top of the hill. This is a place with four little shops that sell good cheap food. One of our favorites is the french fries that remind us a bit of home. Please note that the young lady in the bottom right of the first picture had just gotten some candy cigarettes and was not actually smoking.
On the walk back from char dukan we met a cow that seemed to have gotten himself into quite a pickle. We couldn't tell how he got there or how he was going to get down, but he seemed content to be eating the grass.
After our last session, we sat down to a nice candle lit dinner. It was nice to provide a little relief from the dorms on the retreat and this was a pleasant way to end.
When we returned home that night, we were pretty beat. We went right to bed and spent most of the day Sunday recuperating. Now that we've rested up we'll hopefully be able to return to our more frequent posting on our blog.
Dave and Beth
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