Week Two

Classes this week were so much fun!  We had a microbiology week, mostly about germs, because that's what we're actually going to be dealing with in clinics.  Best part about it was that we didn't really have lectures, we just did experiments, and looked at things under microscopes and such.  Got to look at blood one day, got to grow bacteria that we had taken from around our base.  It was a lot of fun - which is strange, because I always hated this week in high school biology.  But it was incredible to see how intricate things are made.  To see how much detail is put into everything that we looked at under the microscope - especially blood.  Google what blood looks like, it's incredible.  It makes me in awe of how God could make something like the ocean that I see every day so huge, and at the same time make these little cells that keep you alive, and does it both with such great detail.

Other than classes, the weeks been hard, but really good.  My grandpa passed away on Wednesday (North American Wednesday, it was Thursday here).  It's a strange thing, because we've been waiting for it for so long, but now that he's actually with God it's strange to think that it's here.  That he gets to be up in heaven worshiping God, and probably doing something really stupid that if we saw it, it would be one of those stories that we would never let go.  And it's good - knowing that he gets to be free, and that he get to actually experience heaven.  It makes me wonder how people could get through something like this without the hope of God, and it's something that I'm so grateful that I have.  And it's hard, not being home for this - not being able to be with family, or be at the memorial in a couple weeks.  But I wouldn't trade this experience in Bali for it.  So as much as I wish that I could be home next week, I don't actually (if that makes sense), because I know without a doubt that being here is where God wants me to be right now.  He's teaching me so much about depending on Him when life's hard instead of anything else - family, friends.  Not that they aren't wonderful to have around, but that when it comes down to it, God really is the only one that I need.