**This post was written on March 16th in the Bangkok Airport…just took a while to post 🙂
So as I’m sitting/sleeping in the Bangkok airport (we have 10 hours to kill), I’m thinking about how much I’m going to miss Chiang Mai, Thailand. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to go to India, but I’m not excited to leave this country. I fell in love with this place and especially these people, and it’s going to be hard to leave.
Sleeping on the floor in the Bangkok Airport.
As I was reflecting on the past month, I thought I’d share some fun memories that stuck out the most:
We rode bikes…everywhere.
All 10 of us rented bikes for the month. That was our form of transportation and it was awesome. We also play this game called ‘this is how we die.’ Basically any close encounter with death that gets avoided solely because of God’s protection, we yell out after “This is how I die!”. We’ll just say this happened more than once on the bikes.
We had fun on our off days…
We had a day where we went up into the mountains and rode elephants, swam in a waterfall, and went rafting down a river on bamboo rafts. It was beyond awesome.
Half of us got lice…
This is a picture taken before I knew I had lice. The bag was supposed to be lice protection as I helped pick lice out of Julie’s hair….
…the bag didn’t work.
And we met amazing people…
These are some of the beautiful ladies at a bar that we got to know. They are a precious group of women who we loved talking with.
Having a game night with two precious girls who our whole team fell in love with.
And then there’s the staff and children at the drop-in center we worked with. The children’s joy and laughter overwhelmed me, while the staff’s devotion to the chilren’s well-being absolutely blew me away. It was a privilege to work with, love on, and be loved by such beautiful people.
I’m going to miss Thailand and it’s beautiful and precious people. But here we come, India!
