First Snow!!!
Hi,
Today I get my first snow in Canada!!!
It is a wet snow, the snow melt when it hit the ground because the ground is
still hot and need some times to get freeze. And I still freeze even I wear 4
layer of shirts and sweaters and 2 layer of pants. And yesterday I still could
walk in the hill and it still warm. The weather changed so fast!!! And it is
getting cold and cold until next year. I hope I can survive this year 
.
I got many new exciting experiences in these 2 months. At
September, there was gala dinner which held by Children Camp’s International
and a church in Winkler. That was a fund raising dinner to collect money. The
Children Camp’s International has some camps in India,
Sri Lanka, Cambodia
and other countries (but they don’t have it in Indonesia).
And they need some money to operate the camps and give the children a free camp
and follow up after the camp to know more about Jesus Christ. And some of the
peoples who work in those camps are volunteers.
Until now I still surprised how an organization can be
operated by many volunteers in it. Even in MCC Thrift Store, all of the peoples
are volunteers except the manager. And there are 300 volunteers in thrift
store. So there is just one people get wage in Thrift Store!!! And we can get
about $30000 per month (net), and the nominal already reduce by monthly cost
and mortgage. They really have responsible in their job even they don’t get any
money from their work (we need it in Indonesia for sure ).
And in Canada,
in Christmas they usually give a gift for other family members. This year in
Tena’s family (my host parent), they don’t do it but they will spend the money
for another peoples who really need it. For example, we will buy some foods and
give it to another family who can’t afford for those foods. So we can celebrate
Christmas together with another people. And there are another ideas for spend
the money to other peoples. They have more kindness for other peoples than I
ever imagine.
I had a mind set for North America peoples that they are an individual peoples and just care about their own self.
And I’m pretty sure there are many peoples in Indonesia
have the same mind set. We can’t just generalized peoples I think. And thanks
for God I have a good family in here.
C U in another blog,
GBU always
