We have this NEW DIRT DEVIL electric vacuum cleaner!!! It's the tiniest thing, but it sure does clean up everything in its path! It used to take me an hour just to sweep up and scrub the living room floor, but now, it takes me less than 30 minutes to vacuum the whole house!! It's a FANTASTIC feeling sucking up all the dust bunnies and crumbs in this floor.. sheesh, it's like our kids attract nastiness!!! Anyways, NOT FOR MUCH LONGER!!! woohoo!! We also plan on getting one of the skinny steam vacs too.
OH, we also bought this huge set of cubbies (15 made of wood... 3 X 5) to help us organize.. it was less than $100 but it is fantastic!! not gotten everything organized just yet, but soon.. we're preparing for thanksgiving and getting everything rearranged, put up, cleaned up, and organized so we can feel comfortable having people over for Thanksgiving! It's great to actually see progress on the house!!!
Monday, October 25, 2010
VA training
Last week, Monday thru Friday, 18 - 22 October, I went through Victim's Advocate Training conducted by our SARC (Sexual Assault Response Coordinator). It was definitely a hard week to go through, but I went through it with some really great people ranging from a one-striped Airman to a Senior Master Sergeant. I even made peanut butter fudge and chocolate fudge on Wednesday for the class (lots of people took stuff to snack on)...
On Friday night, we met at the main gate of Osan AB at 11pm wearing our SART t-shirts (Sexual Assault Response Team) and went on town patrol. I was teamed up with 3 females (all other groups had 2 males). We ventured into around 10 bars and clubs just to make our presence known and put our faces out there so people could know what our purpose is and know that there are opportunities for justice should they fall into bad situations. Needless to say, it was a pretty rough night. We were ridiculed, called names, made fun of, and one of our VA's was even spit upon (she's a staff sergeant). The drunk guy who spat on her kept asking her if we were the ones who could tell him how to "do it and get away with it". He was arrested for assault.
I also had my first encounter with "juicy girls". These girls are mostly trafficked in from other countries (Russia, Philippines, etc), they are led to believe they are getting job opportunities in the hotel industry, tourism, and restaurant businesses, and when they arrive, their passports are taken, given to bar owners, and they have to work in order to buy their passports back. Their "job" entails dancing with the men (or women) who come into the bar, buy them drinks, dress scandalously, dance around a pole, etc. 80-90% of their profit each night goes into the owner's pockets and the rest, IF they have behaved and done well, can go to buying back their passports (which usually costs anywhere from $5,000-$10,000.00.
I couldn't believe the amount of married men who were dancing with these girls. I also could not believe that,after our higher-ups have told us time and time again not to venture to these places and support human trafficking, they were right there in the middle of it all, sitting at the bars and having the girls buy them drinks.
...so happy to be a part of this amazing Air Force... (please, enjoy the sarcasm in that statement)...
On Friday night, we met at the main gate of Osan AB at 11pm wearing our SART t-shirts (Sexual Assault Response Team) and went on town patrol. I was teamed up with 3 females (all other groups had 2 males). We ventured into around 10 bars and clubs just to make our presence known and put our faces out there so people could know what our purpose is and know that there are opportunities for justice should they fall into bad situations. Needless to say, it was a pretty rough night. We were ridiculed, called names, made fun of, and one of our VA's was even spit upon (she's a staff sergeant). The drunk guy who spat on her kept asking her if we were the ones who could tell him how to "do it and get away with it". He was arrested for assault.
I also had my first encounter with "juicy girls". These girls are mostly trafficked in from other countries (Russia, Philippines, etc), they are led to believe they are getting job opportunities in the hotel industry, tourism, and restaurant businesses, and when they arrive, their passports are taken, given to bar owners, and they have to work in order to buy their passports back. Their "job" entails dancing with the men (or women) who come into the bar, buy them drinks, dress scandalously, dance around a pole, etc. 80-90% of their profit each night goes into the owner's pockets and the rest, IF they have behaved and done well, can go to buying back their passports (which usually costs anywhere from $5,000-$10,000.00.
I couldn't believe the amount of married men who were dancing with these girls. I also could not believe that,after our higher-ups have told us time and time again not to venture to these places and support human trafficking, they were right there in the middle of it all, sitting at the bars and having the girls buy them drinks.
...so happy to be a part of this amazing Air Force... (please, enjoy the sarcasm in that statement)...
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Revival week!
Just an update from this past week since my last post...
Elijah is definitely talking more... I went into his room a few minutes ago and he told me just as plain as day: "I wanna dit up." hahaha.. Then he went straight to the kitchen and started reaching for stuff on the counter (and yes, our SON can reach stuff on the kitchen counters now.. yikes!). I asked him if he wanted a cup and he said "Mm, Cup!" He's doing soo good..
Revival went great!! We only missed Thursday night (we needed a night to rest).
Today, I got tired of the sunshine creating a glare on our computers and our tv coming through the window, soooo i took 7 black garbage bags, scissors, and some boxing tape and fixed that problem!!
Also, we went to the airshow today!! It was fantastic, BUUT it was also extremely hot today, so we grabbed 4 pulled pork BBQ sandwiches, 2 bags of chips, 1 lemonade, and 2 sweet teas and took off to the bx. Now we're just sitting here at home waiting to go to worship practice! God bless!
Oh, and I get to start speaking at church every few weeks with some other awesome brothers in Christ! Pray for us that we'll say the right things and that it will be Truth and not our opinions!
God bless!
Elijah is definitely talking more... I went into his room a few minutes ago and he told me just as plain as day: "I wanna dit up." hahaha.. Then he went straight to the kitchen and started reaching for stuff on the counter (and yes, our SON can reach stuff on the kitchen counters now.. yikes!). I asked him if he wanted a cup and he said "Mm, Cup!" He's doing soo good..
Revival went great!! We only missed Thursday night (we needed a night to rest).
Today, I got tired of the sunshine creating a glare on our computers and our tv coming through the window, soooo i took 7 black garbage bags, scissors, and some boxing tape and fixed that problem!!
Also, we went to the airshow today!! It was fantastic, BUUT it was also extremely hot today, so we grabbed 4 pulled pork BBQ sandwiches, 2 bags of chips, 1 lemonade, and 2 sweet teas and took off to the bx. Now we're just sitting here at home waiting to go to worship practice! God bless!
Oh, and I get to start speaking at church every few weeks with some other awesome brothers in Christ! Pray for us that we'll say the right things and that it will be Truth and not our opinions!
God bless!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Revival, Our Garmin, Special Detail!!!!
Okay, so I notice that I have a crazy title for this, but it's really to help me stay on point of what to blog about this time around...
Tonight was our first night of revival at the base chapel and it was FANTASTIC!!!! Our youth worship team opened up the service and did a fantastic job doing "Blessed Be Your Name"!! Emilee and I are soooo proud of how far these guys and girls have come in such a short time! Then our contemporary group sung and Ch Richey preached a terrific message. We even had people come to the altar tonight!!! This was also Emilee's first revival as well!! She enjoyed it a lot!
Our Garmin GPS arrived in the mail this week and Emilee picked it up today!! We are so excited about it.. all we need now are the Korean maps to go on it and we'll be set!!
So this week, I got tasked with "Fuels escort"... basically, I meet up with these Koreans driving a gas truck, get them on base, take them around filling up gas tanks, and then escorting them off base after we finish... and we finish around 11 or 12!!!! SO I GOT HALF THE DAY!!! woohoo!!!
That's the update for now!! Later!!!
Tonight was our first night of revival at the base chapel and it was FANTASTIC!!!! Our youth worship team opened up the service and did a fantastic job doing "Blessed Be Your Name"!! Emilee and I are soooo proud of how far these guys and girls have come in such a short time! Then our contemporary group sung and Ch Richey preached a terrific message. We even had people come to the altar tonight!!! This was also Emilee's first revival as well!! She enjoyed it a lot!
Our Garmin GPS arrived in the mail this week and Emilee picked it up today!! We are so excited about it.. all we need now are the Korean maps to go on it and we'll be set!!
So this week, I got tasked with "Fuels escort"... basically, I meet up with these Koreans driving a gas truck, get them on base, take them around filling up gas tanks, and then escorting them off base after we finish... and we finish around 11 or 12!!!! SO I GOT HALF THE DAY!!! woohoo!!!
That's the update for now!! Later!!!
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