Returning to my first HK ‘home’

Incase you forgot I spent my first month here living in a guest house getting to know the owners and finding my way around Hong Kong. The longer I stayed the more they included me in their day to day activities and meals. I experienced some of my favourite foods in that first month in …

Let’s just be Honest….I miss Lynn!

Not really sure where this came from today. I can't say it caught me by total surprise as she's often on my mind but somehow today I stumbled upon a picture of her on Facebook and I realised I miss Lynn Sloane Barnes. Yet as I type this I picture her looking down on me …

Finding my voice literally…

Some of my thoughts & reflections....these are still coming together so if this doesn't make since to you please ask for clarification... The first night of training past July we were asked what our life motto was and I thought back to something someone at church had told me my last Sunday "God's got your …

Solidarity Forever….We will fight until we win.

I feel like I should start this out with a statement I understand that when heads of countries visit there is an increased level of security especially when they are threaten. That being said that still does not make the remainder of this blog ok.... A couple back ground facts: Indonesian President 'SPY' was in …

So Adam puts it so well & these stories need to be shared so people in other countries know what is going on. So I agree with the words of this statement.

From Dust to Dusk

Since 2011, the north eastern region of Mindanao known as Caraga has been a staging ground for increased militarization.  In February 2012, the Armed forces of the Philippines (AFP) began to use Lumad (indigenous) ancestral mountain lands as staging grounds for their increased combat operations ranging from live fire excursions to aerial strafing and bombing runs.

On March 5, 2012 aerial forces dropped 8 bombs on the triboundary of the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Norte.  The following day, March 6th, 4 bombs were dropped.  Both bombing runs were accompanied by strafing fire from accompanying fighters. Ground-side, infantry and special forces elements (from the 30th,38th IBPA; and 3rd Special Forces of the 402nd) inserted themselves in the village public places and even some homes.  These 0perations are in accordance with current President Aquino’s counter-insurgency op ‘Oplan Bayanihan’ and will stop only when all communist rebels are…

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It’s ok to….

It's ok to not understand It's ok to question why It's ok to take time to readjust It's ok to miss where you were It's ok to wonder what's ahead It's ok to dream what that may be It's ok to let your emotions be what they are It's ok to be human don't set …

If only life was divisible by four….

Then the Migrant Focus layout for our monthly newsletter at work would actually make since....seriously trying to divide a month of events into enough pages that are divisible by four just gives me a headache. It will happen, trust me it will, Abode InDesign has yet to outsmart me and this month will be NO …

Wait, that was a…wait its been a year already?!?

So It's been a year since I received the e-mail inviting me to participate in an Interview and Discernment Days for the Mission Intern Program. It's been a year since I met some of my best friends, since I boarded a plane to NYC for the first time, since I met Liz, Ate Becky, and …

An evening at Bethune House…

In case you weren't aware The Bethune House Migrant Women's Refuge or Bethune House is the shelter connected to our office and in case didn't know I have a fellow YAM visiting for an 'immersion' into the life OFW's (overseas Filipino Workers) and the work I do with Migrants as well as see the 'city'! …

…Prayers…

So I've realised one thing I have gotten away from doing since coming back from the holiday is posting prayers/praises at the end of my blogs. Not that there is anything wrong with this but its just an observation I've made. That being said I still need prayers but more importantly my class of YAMs …