Romanian Reflections 3~What were the hard things for you on this trip?

Lori:
·         Humidity
·         No towels
·         Different foods
·         No time for a real personal quiet time with the Lord
·         Out of my comfort zone
·         Less than clean bathroom
·         Dirty sheets
·         Very long days
·         No down time
·         Rough toilet paper
·         Feeling dirty all week
·         Language barrier
·         Spiritual warfare in the time of preparation
·         Seeing and realizing the truth about the life of an orphan
·         Flesh nature exposed L
Christie:  There are not many hard things that come to mind when thinking about this trip except the language barrier.  Only the older kids could understand English, and I was working mainly with the little kids.  This lack of understanding with the different languages was a little hard to get through to them and have a conversation.  You had to show love instead of telling them they were loved.  Meetings at 1:30 in the morning weren’t necessarily hard but just difficult after a long day.  The travel was a lot which was tiring and draining.
Isaac:  There were not many serious hard things that happened, but I think my hardest part was the traveling.  Almost five days were spent just on traveling from one place to another either on the plane or a bus.  Jet-lag was dominant on the first couple of days, but after some well rested evenings I was back to myself and energized to help out.
Evan:  Romania was a wonderful and impacting trip; however there were some tough spots to overcome. The hardest part was probably the traveling. We had an eight hour flight from Atlanta to London, where we had a six hour lay-over. This first stretch of travel was followed by a two hour plane ride to Budapest, Hungary, and then another four hour bus ride to Oradea Romania.  After the hours of travel, we started the camp for the kids!  It was also hard not being able to understand the language.  A bus full of fifty Romanian kids pulled up to the camp, and all I could understand was “hello.”  There we’re obstacles that my team and I had to overcome, but it was a spectacular trip overall.
Amy:  Even though participating in an overseas mission trip was a great experience filled with fun activities; there were absolutely some hard aspects.  I would say that one of the most difficult parts of the trip was definitely the food.  Since I am a fairly picky eater, the Romanian entrees served were certainly an interesting component of the trip.  Endurance was also tough!  Waking up early every morning and going to bed at a very late hour was exhausting.  Out of all of these difficult experiences, the most heartbreaking time during the trip was seeing all of the orphan children leave camp.  I knew that they were going back to a pitiful orphanage to live in complete poverty, and it made me so sad because of how blessed I am and how Americans so often take for granted our riches.
Micah:  There were not many hard things on this trip; however one of the challenging things to deal with would be when you wanted to talk to someone and you couldn't understand them. Without being able to understand then you could not have a conversation without a translator. Another difficult part of this experience was the jet lag. It was very hard to stay up in the day once we got back because we were used to going to bed at that time.  In Romania we would wake up at 7:30am and go to bed at 11:00 p.m.  Other than those minor obstacles, the trip was not hard to me.