Ok, well I figure it's been a long enough time since I last blogged here so, why not toss another little "update" out? So, let's get straight to business...or should I say, updating.
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| Baking cookies with the neighborhood girls |
My team is relocating from Phuket ("poo-ket") in southern Thailand up north to Chiang Mai, the second largest city in Thailand. I'm extremely sad about having to leave behind the friendships we've made with the Thai girls that work here at SHE and the kids around our neighborhood. I absolutely love them! It's also sad that we are leaving the ministry we had helped Mark and Sharon (owners of S.H.E.) pioneer in a section of Phuket called Chalong. But, on Friday we were blessed by one of the girls we had befriended in Chalong come to tour and have lunch at S.H.E. While she personally does not plan on coming here, she said she will be telling the other girls she works with about this place. Hopefully that will begin to open doors.
During our time here, there's been many amazing stories and we've met so many flippin rad people. God's definitely been moving and working-crashing down entire bar filled streets, bringing girls back to life, enabling members of my team to begin the process of rescuing young girls from abusive homes, the list goes on and on. I apologize if it seems like I'm just brushing these things aside-I'm really not. I just don't feel I can do these stories justice by blogging them to a wide-open cyber-space where anyone and everyone can read them. It's not that I don't want to share them, but these stories are real. They actually happened and I can't bring myself to just casually and impersonally blog them to who knows who. On that note, if you are reading this, and you do want to hear more about the things that have been happening over here, feel free to ask! I'd love to answer and talk about them :)
On lighter notes, in a few hours we are off to Chiang Mai to begin work with an organization called Lighthouse. I'm not entirely clear what all we will be doing yet, but I've heard tail that there's a Fair Trade coffee shop for us to volunteer at, working in the rice fields with locals, and tons of other opportunities to "embrace" the Thai culture. Woot woot. It's gonna be rad. And I've been told Chiang Mai has sweet as elephant tours and Thai cooking classes. Also, it's supposedly cooler than down south-aka- I might, MIGHT need a coat at night...I might cry a bit out of joy if that's the case. Oh and my hair is now red. RED. Oh yes. K, bye.
During our time here, there's been many amazing stories and we've met so many flippin rad people. God's definitely been moving and working-crashing down entire bar filled streets, bringing girls back to life, enabling members of my team to begin the process of rescuing young girls from abusive homes, the list goes on and on. I apologize if it seems like I'm just brushing these things aside-I'm really not. I just don't feel I can do these stories justice by blogging them to a wide-open cyber-space where anyone and everyone can read them. It's not that I don't want to share them, but these stories are real. They actually happened and I can't bring myself to just casually and impersonally blog them to who knows who. On that note, if you are reading this, and you do want to hear more about the things that have been happening over here, feel free to ask! I'd love to answer and talk about them :)
