June 21, 2013 by

First off... wow, I'm a poet and had no idea!

But really though, starting June 27th at... 4 in the afternoon, I'll be leaving for the airport and that begins my road to leaving the gamer life behind. I'll explain later what that means but first, why I won't be here in July.

So for those of you who don't know, I'm a Christian, yes that's important to this blog. Anyways, my mom and I (and about 400 others from around the world [mostly US]) will be going to Fort Lauderdale to begin training for a missions trip in Lima Peru. My mom and I leave on Thursday of next week to take Friday as a a time of rest before a month of chaos. I'll visit the ocean for the first time ever and just relax. Saturday and Sunday my mom will be doing leader training and I'll be lounging with other teens until Monday when our training begins.

What we'll be doing...

So this is with an organization call Big World Ventures and it's put on by a girls magazine (though I'm not a girl they do welcome guys as well) called Beano magazine (I did not spell that right my bad) and what we do is we go to Orphanages, schools, hospitals, parks, soup kitchens and just on the street and perform an evangelistic mime drama. It's basically the story of God and Jesus creating the world, creating people, sin comes into the world, God sends his son Jesus to help the world, they kill him, by killing him He dies for their sins and those who accept him are welcomed into Heaven. But it's all toy's so it's like the Toy Maker and Toy Maker's son, than the toys and it's pretty cool, it's about 20 minutes long. After that we than just talk to the people around and see what they thought, pray with them and get them in touch with a local church in the area. As well in orphanages we help them out if they need it like painting or cleaning toys or just spending time with the kids.

Now that's 2 weeks, my mom and I are gone for 4 weeks. The next week we are going to Cusco Peru which is were Machu Pichu is (probably didn't spell that right either.) Now this section of the trip is not sightseeing, though one day is but only as a freeday. We'll be doing the same thing kinda there but with a different skit. It's a smaller group going than the 400 people in Lima. So here we'll be visiting a special orphanage that the company has been helping out with. Why is it special? Well I wouldn't say special, maybe that's the wrong word... see this orphanage were visiting takes in girls who've been sold into trafficking, aka the sex trade. These girls have been saved from that and with the help of donations they now have a cook, seamstress and baker to help them sustain themselves by baking or making cloths and selling it at the markets. It gives them away out and were going to visit them. From the pictures I've seen, some girls don't look like their older than 7 and it's heartbreaking to know what they've been through.

So that's one week, the last week an even smaller group of 22 people are going into the Amazon to visit tribes. We will be preforming skits to them as well, talking to them, helping them and just spending time in their culture and seeing how they live. While there, there will be sloths and snakes... but most importantly sloths! haha, that's really all I know about that section of the trip but it sounds amazing.

So that's what I'm doing all July is being in Peru. I'm pumped, don't know any spanish but still pumped!

So the 27th we fly from the Amazong to Lima, from Lima we fly (for 5 hours) to Miami than from Miami to Detroit than from there we drive home... so we get home on the 28th... than on the 29th I start a Preforming Arts Camp at my church were i wake up at 7, get to the church at 8, help kids act and stuff till 3:30, don't get home till 4:30 and do it again for the next day all week... I mean I'll be tired but I'm pumped...

Anyways, I'll post pictures once I'm home and I've recouped from the trip, should be super awesome and life changing. Anyways. After that not sure what I'll do, than it will only be a few weeks till College so I might pack my PS3 up next week and put it in storage or something so it won't collect dust internally... I can't bring it to college because of college rules and my rules, to much of a distraction.

Anyways, yeah, that's why I won't be around in July... yup.

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