Organization

This trip was quite uncertain. When we originally started looking for a team, the original response was over 30 people at the first meeting. This includes a few people who were tagging along or just getting informed. I myself was just getting informed, see how many meetings I would attend. the next few meetings included a drop in interest, from the 30 to about 25, to 20, and then we decided we might need to send two teams... A couple months later, we were down to about 15 people. Then some people could not get the time off, others had second thoughts about leaving the family behind for a whole 11 days. We were down to one team and 8 people... now, we didn't know how much help we would have out there, but it seemed like 8 people wasn't going to be enough: the camps often had 80+ kids by Friday, the last day of the camp. But we continued on, and heard we might have 4 interpreters, perhaps three. Later on, Dan, our team leader, learnt he was leaving! He was to move out and the estimated date made it hard for the trip, so he had to cancel. In cancelling, Dan also had another member drop out, as this member was going as an intern under Dan. So we were down to six. One boy, not yet 17 (that's me), a newly wed, a mother of anxious children, a couple with three children who were going to have to stay with their grand-parents, and a grandmother. The leadership fell on the only man in the group, who had never led before. And we learnt where we were going and everything, fundraising suddenly worked out (this will be another blogpost) and we were just about ready to go. Well, we learn that the place we were going to had been changed, about two weeks before departure. So we went, not entirely knowing what to expect.


We learnt that one has to be very flexible while going for a trip; this was, in fact, probably one of our biggest lessons. We could not foresee all the details, nor could we control them. 


--Scott


Hope that that wasn't too rambly :D

My first blog post

Hello world :D


As this is my first blog post, and my site is not satisfactorily set up yet. This blog site will be snippits of my experience in the Ukraine. I went over to help run a VBS, a vacation Bible camp. So, this is really simple, letting you know most of my posts won't be overly long: I'm a bit lazy with developing ideas :P Also, if you have not noticed, I love emoticons. I like to express exactly how I feel, no cover-ups, no back-routes, just the upfrontness of a teen who doesn't care what strangers think of him. I will be completely honest and am open to any questions and suggestions from readers.


--Scott