The Home Stretch...

So it's reaching that time: the time where I will board a plan and say goodbye to my Thai family in anticipation of seeing those I miss back home. As long as all goes according to plan, this Tuesday I will head to the airport in Bangkok so I will be ready for my 6am flight on Wednesday. Then at about 7pm New England time I should arrive at Logan airport! insanity....It still has not set in that I'm actually leaving. But I'm getting ahead of myself: thank you so much to everyone who prayed for the youth camp last week! It was a lot of fun. We had around 40 kids I think, plus a bunch of adults from the different churches. We had some great worship times and lots of games and some skits (I got to be in one as a mute person trying to join the army: it doesn't matter that you don't speak the language if your character is mute!). I really enjoyed getting to hang out with the camp staff---there were the two university students who are living with us as well as 6 people who came out from YWAM in Bangkok. (if you don't know what YWAM is you should check them out: http://www.ywam.org/) It was great to be able to spend a lot of time with people my own age: I realized I haven't done a whole lot of that these past several months. A lot of times it reminded me of camp back home, which was fun. The same spirit of excitement surrounded by a healthy dose of laughter and nature and kids :) Though we did do a few things that we've never done at camp back home--like go on a "safari" ride at night looking for elephants! Lots of fun. So, overall quite a success. And then after camp I got to play the tourist for a couple days in Bangkok! I went back to stay at the YWAM base and do a little bit of shopping while I was there. So that was fun! Got to take some pictures and browse through lots of roadside shops and do a little bit of bargaining for prices. I'm glad I got to fit that in before leaving! As far as the next couple days, I don't have a lot of plans: we're doing a party this afternoon as a combination end-of-English-class/goodbye party. That should be fun! and then I'll just be trying to spend as much time with the kids as possible and saying my goodbyes... So if you happen to remember, please pray for safe travelling! I will try to remember to post some pictures when I get home--the internet is more readily available there! :) See you all soon!