I’m so so upset!!! We are leaving Thailand in 7 days to go up to Cambodia. These last two months have been the highlight so far of my race! Teaching has been redeemed in my life! Before I used to love teaching but found myself losing my love for it through the pressure of school and Praxis. I eventually gave up on teaching thinking it wasn’t for me, that it was too hard to get my degree. But Thailand has been showing me differently. It’s showed me that through teaching I’ve fallen in love with it all over again and it’s beautiful.
We’ve also had Christmas in Chiang Rai for about 4 days. Well, the last day was an accident. So we left the hostel monday afternoon around 12:30 to get to the bus station. We had asked the in charge of the front desk about the bus schedule and they told us to go to bus station 2. We went there and ended up finding out 3 hours later we should have been at bus station number one. So we went back to the hostel since there were no buses heading out to where we needed to go. Thankfully we were able to check back into the hostel! The next morning we woke up at 5:30 and headed to the correct bus station. I called my wonderful family and got to talk to them on their Christmas!!! Then the bus was late and we only got 4 girls on the bus that sat on actual seats. Then thinking the last two would have to go on the next bus at 2pm the driver miraculously pulls out two stools he then situates in between seats and that’s where I sat and Mariah sat haha. We were extremely grateful to get on the bus but our butts were numb all the way to Fang! All in all a very exhausting 2 days.
I’m also finding that I’m missing home in a sense that when something reminds me of home I want to be home because I know I’m missing out on stuff my family is doing. I miss my family like crazy. I miss my sister and all the fun times we have! I miss driving her crazy with all my questions and silliness! I miss my friends and all the stuff we would of been doing for the holidays and on the weekends. I miss popping into mom’s work to say hi to her and give her a hug whenever I’m able to. But then I always think about that if I was home I’d be missing out on what God has in store for me because he’s already grown me so much! I know he has great plans for me and already has them in store for me. He’s already done so much for me that I’ve grown in!
