Thailand Day 3...maybe 4, not sure!
Well incase you missed the memo, I made it Thailand safely! What a journey that was, after leaving Okinawa I arrived in Shanghai, China for the night. I successfully made it through customs and began the journey of finding my hotel room.
After much frustration I made it to my hotel room! YAY! Where I spent the night on a very short bed and watched CCTV (Communist China Television). That was pretty boring, but I had nothing else to do and was way to nervous to get a decent nights sleep. The next morning, I got up bright and early and went back to the airport to head to Thailand.
I arrived to be greeted by a happy driver who took us (some friends from our team who waited at the airport for me) to our hotel. All in all it was a very successful trip to get here.
Day 2 or 3 depending how you look at it, began with our team loading up and heading to the Children's home/work site. The majority of our team began laying concrete for a sidewalk at a new boy's home. I and two other ladies, began making the curtains for this new home. We have been working diligently to finish these curtains and to teach one of the ladies how to make them, so that when we leave, they can continue our work or make new curtains as needed.
After our work day, we came back to our new hotel/conference center to unpack and clean up. We then returned to the Children's Home to spend the evening. I had brought a few decks of cards (which are now the Children's Homes). We played UNO, Spoons, battle and memory. For some reason, I seemed to draw out the attention of little ones, so I had a blast playing with them.
There was a specific little girl who just stuck out to me. We will call her Jane. (Because of the nature of our trip, we are not allowed to share names online or locations to where we are at). Jane was a special needs little girl, who seemed to really enjoy playing with me after dinner.
While playing spoons with her, I held my cards in my hand and showed her the face cards to allow her to look for more face cards. I then taught her the letter Q. At the beginning of the evening she couldn't identify the difference between kings, queens, and jacks; but by the end of the night she was able to tell the difference and even got 4 queens so she could grab the spoon.
These girls in this home are all so incredibly loved and well taken care of. It amazed me how happy each one is in a situation that we would consider tragic. God has been doing some amazing things in this country and I feel so blessed to be a part of this awesome experience. Well it's time for us to head to a boys home, so hopefully I will get more stuff up soon!
Please pray for my migraines, health of other members of our team, and for us to continue being such a help to the Thai people.
Thanks y'all!
Amber
