Back to Base

So, as of yesterday, our Doi Inthanon outreach team got back to the base.

I think that we really finished up well as a team on that mountain. The last few days there were spent finishing up the work in the the fields, as well as in the school. We said goodbye to all of the kids and the families that we had spent time with, packed up the truck and went to the city. 

We spent three days and two nights as a team in a little retreat house in Chiang mai. 

So the one morning there, we started our meeting at 10 o'clock. We finished that meeting at 9:30 at night... it was kind of ridiculous. We spent the whole day giving our highlights and low lights, as well as telling each person what they did well on the outreach as well as things that they could improve on. I was glad that we did it. it was worth the almost twelve hours. 

Our team was very thankful to have the time off that we did, it was so nice to be off the mountain and in the city again, and have rest and have nothing required of us. :) We were given a lot of free time to go wherever we wanted.  

Coming back to the base on Saturday was good too. In a way, it felt like we had come back home. I suppose it is our home away from home anyways. We were the first team back so we had time to unpack everything and get all settled in before seeing everyone again. When the other team did get back, it was just a frenzy of screaming and hugging.  We all kind of talked and shared stories with each other. It was great to see them all again, but so strange to think that we only have a week left together!

This week is going to be run on the same schedule we had during lecture faze, but I'm not sure what we will be doing to fill the time when we usually had people speaking. 

Melissa, Sarah and I are also spending some time now planning what our little vacation after outreach is going to look like. I'm getting quite excited for that. I think that it's going to be a nice transition from being with everyone at the base, to only a few people, to going home. 

I am also getting quite excited to be home in two weeks, it's definitely going to be bitter sweet leaving all these people, but I'm really looking forward to seeing my friends and family again.

Well, I'm sorry that this is a little bit shorter than usual, but not a whole lot has happened since last time. Oh, one big thing is that E.E. is doing a lot better, only now Hosanna, her daughter, is really sick and they think that she might have pneumonia too. So that's something that can be prayed for. 

Anyways, that's it for this week. :) See you all soon!

Today's Fun Fact:

Unlike at home where we only have plain, boring, white rice, here in Thailand they have PURPLE RICE!! Yes that's right, deep purple rice. Most of the time we just eat the white rice, but every once in a while we eat purple sticky rice. It's actually very pretty on a plate. Apparently its better for you than white rice because it has lots of vitamins and minerals in it.