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Saturday, April 6

Volunteering at an unknown place

In a place with 30 teenagers, playing video games here, and dancing there.
That place was hectic, and I found out that there are usually around 70 kids regularly!

As people may already know, I started up breakdancing for the past semester, and one of my friends have been teaching me.
But last Thursday, people were just too busy/tired to come out so Mpemba and I just chatted for 2 hours.
Through that conversation, I learned about this church he had been volunteering at where it is targeting teenagers that were hanging out at another 'youth club'.

The other place however, we not looking after kids and have an ongoing issue with letting kids get high there.
Instead, this church is welcoming kids in The Valley to come in, and be in a safe place where they can still have fun.

And let me tell you about this place.
This co-pastor who takes care of the youth, has a background I only see in movies.
I decided not to share about it online. People are trying to kill him, literally.
But he was a DJ, and that dance floor upstair, he's got the equipment too.

The downstairs got a PS3, XBox Connect, pool table, air hockey and that soccer thingy.
They also a kitchen where they serve snacks to the kids.

This place however, is far from home.
A 20 min bus ride out into The Valley, where I barely know anyone out there.
And the kids there are.... so obviously in an environment of lower quality than I am use to.
Like seriously, I never saw so many Caucasian kids that fit into the punk/emo cliché.

So many thoughts about this place.
But the most important one, is God wanting me to be here now?

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