This post has very few pretty pictures. In fact, it has some images of the team looking less then our prettiest. However, mission trips, especially those with large amounts of overnight busing and small amounts of running water in between, are not about looking pretty.

After an overnight ride from Vientiane to Pom Saavan, catching some breakfast. We left in a few hours on another bus, for another 12 hours or so. Brutal.

Bus

The same day, our lunch stop.

Same lunch stop. Note the wild boar at the top. It was actually quite good, if a bit over salted.

My buddy Orlando and I. It was here that I, in my astute brilliance, dubbed him Moses, due to the long and flowing beard.

Another village, another curve. The scenery was actually quite spectacular. The bathroom breaks never seemed to coincide with wide-open, photogenic, vistas, which may surprise you until you think about it a bit. In other words, I was unable to capture any of the landscape satisfactorily.

Arriving at Xam Nuea

On the move again

The kids here are amazingly cool. I am pumped about the great semester that God wants to give us.

]]> http://benjimast.com/touchdown/feed/ 5 http://benjimast.com/kyc-08/ http://benjimast.com/kyc-08/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:09:56 +0000 Benji Mast http://benjimast.com/632 It’s 12:54am. I am in a hotel room and need to get to bed in a bad sort of way… but just have to tell ya’ll a little about the Kansas Youth Chorus that is now wrapping up a tour of the Southeast United States. We’re having a good time. I think that this has been good for me. A personal message from me to you is, “Be humble, you’re not as good as you think.” God is teaching me. Slowly. I’m a slow learner sometimes. I have some good stories, but it’s now 12:58am, and all my roommates are in bed, like the sane people they are sometimes, therefore, I do not have time to write. Much.

Some pictures.

There was one prison that the 18 yo kids couldn’t enter, so we bought ourselves a lovely lunch from Wal-Mart and had a partaay on the bus.

We stopped at some water. We accidentally got our clothes a little damp.

You have no idea how good this felt to have the water pounding my back like that. But let me give you a hint… It starts with ‘grea’.

Try it yourself, here!

In case you’re curious all or most of these images have been published on my blog before. They are pictures that I hosted on flikr for posts.