Interesting firsts

So for the MSU spring break I ended up being the leader of a trip into inner city Chicago. There are lots of things to tell, some of which I will tell in my prayer letter I am sending out in a couple days, but what I did not put in there was I had the experience to have someone throw up in my car! It was like a movie, but usually they don't show the actual stuff coming out of someone's mouth, but I got a front row seat!

not that I wanted it, but I was driving, and she had told me previously that she got queasy if she didn't have something in her stomach, and I should have figured it out when she opened the window, but I didn't quite get until it was happening, and by then it was too late! anyway long story short, most of it was contained to the floor mat, and she was able to put it in a plastic bag and clean it up in the bathroom, and then someone at the place we were at gave me a whole roll of paper towels and a container of clorox wipes, so I was able to clean it up before the sun baked my car. then when I got home later, I used a spot carpet cleaner to go over it all again, just to make sure.

Another interesting thing that happened was while we were driving in the city, I had a car full of students, and just before we were getting off at our exit we were going through a little tunnel part and a car decided to cross three lanes of traffic, and I guess didn't see us, and I screamed! It takes a lot to actually get me to scream, and because we were in a tunnel there wasn't much of a place to go, but God definitly had his hand on us and even though the car seemed more than halfway in our lane, I swerved a bit, but we didn't hit the van or the wall of the tunnel. But I don't think I will ever forget the look of that van inches away from my car, and all I could think about is, "oh no! there's other people in my car besides me! they are going to get hurt!!!!" I think I am so secure in knowing what will happen to me when I die, but I was worried about what would happen to the others in my car. I knew they were all younger than me(not by much) and had lives to live, and I just remember a flash of "no not them!" but we were all safe, so that's good.

but yeah, so those were my close calls/gross stories. I also got to have an interesting conversation with a South Korean women, who has lived in Chicago for almost 35 years. She told me a lot of her life woes, but the highlight of the story was this bird/animal thing that has eight eyes and lives in the himilayas, and that is how she knows a God must exist if he can create things like that! I tried to look up what she was talking about, but couldn't find anything... oh well, it was still an interesting conversation for being on the subway!