outreach!

so we only have one more week of lecture phase left! starting september 21, we no longer will consider the NRTC home. we have to be all moved out and have our room all cleared and cleaned before outreach! it is going to be pure chaos!

first, we go on niko from september 21-25. this will be a trek through the wilderness of thailand. this is also the part i'm most nervous about. i only found out about niko two weeks before i left for thailand. i thought my body would acclimate to this tropical climate a lot better than it has. overheating and dehydration have been a problem since i got here. it's gotten a bit better, considering i now think that 68 degrees is cold (november in idaho will be BRUTAL). but i talked to the nurse that's coming with us and feel much better about the situation.

after niko, we'll be back at the base sept. 26 and 27. which will be time for us to do laundry and make sure our room is empty and clean. then on the 28th everyone from the U.S. and australia has to go to the border of thailand and cambodia for our visa run. although we have year long visas, we are required to check in at the border every 90 days so they can keep an eye on us, i guess.

then we fly out of bangkok that night to phuket. when we arrive in phuket, we'll have to drive to phang gna, which is where the first stretch of our outreach is. we'll be in phang gna until oct. 10. while we're there, we'll be teaching english. and some other stuff but i can't remember!

after phang gna, we go to ratchaburi until oct. 30, but for three days we'll go back to bangkok to help out with a worship conference that one of the thai students (mai) is in charge of coordinating. while we're in ratchaburi, we'll be teaching english and other skills to a few different people groups. one that was mentioned was burmese refugees.

after all that, we return to bangkok for debriefing and graduation and then i head home! WHEW!