Ok, time for a real update!
My trip started on Friday the 8th at the lovely hour of 4:00 in the morning
as I left Barrington with my roomies & mother to head down to Boston for my
7:30 am flight. After saying my final goodbyes and making the mandatory Dunkin
Donuts stop, I boarded the first, and shortest, of my three flights. 27 hours
later, I arrived in Bangkok after stops in Newark, NJ and Tokyo, Japan.
Thankfully, everything went smoothly and Rodney and Phimpha collected me at the
airport at about midnight Saturday night.
Since then, my life has been a whirlwind of meeting new people, re-meeting
people I knew from my last trip visit here, eating spicy food, driving around
with Phimpha, and understanding only about 5% of what people are saying. I do
not have any elephant sightings to report yet, though I have seen a few monkeys
crossing the road through the forest! I am writing this Thursday morning, so I
have only been here about four days but I have already been to Pattaya twice and
Bangkok once, each about a three hour trip one way. I was thankful to sleep in
my own bed here at the Timothy House last night, as it was the first time since
Saturday night I had done so! It truly has been a busy week so far, and I am
pretty sure another Bangkok trip is scheduled for Friday. (Phimipha is working
to get a birth certificate and other citizenship documents for a boy who needs them so that he can go to school.)
Some highlights from the week so far: church Sunday morning here at the
Timothy House, getting to go out to eat for my birthday (and the chocolate cake!!),
making friends with the kids I didn't know yet--getting chased around by some
of the younger kids as they pretended to shoot at me and then playing soccer
with some of the older kids, and watching the youngest boys (four-year-old
twins Green and Lot) laughing hysterically as they try to throw my frisbee.
(Lot has a pretty nasty flick!)
I think that's about all for now! Hope life back in the USA is going well!
I'll update again as I get the chance. :)
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So I wrote this Thursday morning and it's now Sunday afternoon...don't have many chances to get online these days! Since Thursday, I've been to Bangkok + Pattaya again, and a city about four to five hours north-east of where we live to go to a body ceremony for someone who died. We have another body ceremony either tonight or tomorrow morning, and then who knows what after that! Life here is never boring!
Oh, and we had an elephant visit our house Friday night! He was just chilling in the driveway when Phimpha and I got home from Pattaya. :)
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