New Team! (Only for a month)
I was on a co-ed team, Team BoB.There are two co-ed teams in my squad, of all the people I travel with. This month is MAN-istry month. All the men are together at the base of a mountain chopping wood and teaching English. All the girls from the co-ed teams are together.
We hail from Team BoB & Team Sozo so we jokingly called ourselves Bozo for a while there but when it’s come to officially telling the school we’re working with our team name, we landed on Free Bird. (In part because Thai means Free and in part because the assistant principal told us to call him that.)
Some incredible moments with Free Bird so far:
This morning, meandering our way to the morning assembly at 7:50 am on the soccer field. We lined up with the students but were soon ussured to the stage and in front of a thousand or so students were introduced. Lots of pictures, some waving and a lot more of not having a clue what the next moment would hold.
The night we put a bunch of dares in a hat and took turns drawing them. I lost pretty hard core and ended up doing 4 over the course of the night. Dares included, dolphin noises as the only means of communication until 9 pm, put on all your clothes from one of your packing cubes and strutting like its World Race Top Model and dunking your head in the questionable bucket of water in our bathroom. so much laughing.
I love heating up food together that we snag from lunch at the canteen everyday and sitting around our little end table makeshift dinner table for dinner.
Grocery shopping in a foreign country is a lot of educated guessing and what a stellar group of women to try to figure out which tea is ok (lol, we totally accidentally grabbed laxative tea) and how much the fruit will cost.
I love worshiping together, in our little house at the back of the high school campus by a green lake which has a little path around it that’s absolutely breathtaking.
There’s a bit of us that feels a bit looked over. The rest of the women on our squad are in a different city, together and the men are all together and then there’s us, the leftovers, shivering in foggy mornings in Northern Thailand.
As we get to know each other it’s becoming clear that even if we were unintentionally paired together for this brief moment in time, we weren’t by God. God is intentional and loving and doesn’t waste even this. It’s been sweet as we live and learn and love together how the Lord is speaking through each other and putting his love on display in our lil’ team.
Much love from Fang, Thailand,
Caitlyn Buell
