Thailand Journal 2011 #10
Just a quick journal tonight: We are at a guest house in Kanchanaburi – 4 hours from APIU. And there is no internet service. But thankfully there is an Internet Café across the street. So I’ll make this quick and sweet. Today we traveled 45 kilometers to the village where the APIU nursing students have been working all week for their community nursing. A medical team from Bangkok led by Dr. Somchai and Dr. Nick (and his wife Faye) along with the Nursing Faculty and students conducted the mobile clinic. This is the 4th year that we have joined them and assisted. A feature of these clinics is the gifts that each person receives. A wealthy business man, Udom Srikureja, who owns the Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School in Bangkok, gives school supplies to all the children, blankets to the men, and mosquito nets to all the women. Everyone also receives 20 Baht (Thai currency) and some SDA booklets. I taught his daughter at Walla Walla Coll
ege in the early 1990s. She was the Administrator at this school after she graduated from WWC; but the Thailand Mission recently invited her to head the mission school. Normally, we leave early on Sunday morning for the 4-hour drive to the Tiger Temple. But this year most of the group wanted to spend the full day with the tigers. So they are paying approximately $150.00 each for this cultural, religious, and environmental experience. We begin the day at 7:15am with breakfast with the monks and the volunteers from around the world. Thus it was necessary that we travel tonight and awake fresh for this experience of a lifetime.
Just a quick journal tonight: We are at a guest house in Kanchanaburi – 4 hours from APIU. And there is no internet service. But thankfully there is an Internet Café across the street. So I’ll make this quick and sweet. Today we traveled 45 kilometers to the village where the APIU nursing students have been working all week for their community nursing. A medical team from Bangkok led by Dr. Somchai and Dr. Nick (and his wife Faye) along with the Nursing Faculty and students conducted the mobile clinic. This is the 4th year that we have joined them and assisted. A feature of these clinics is the gifts that each person receives. A wealthy business man, Udom Srikureja, who owns the Ramkhamhaeng Advent International School in Bangkok, gives school supplies to all the children, blankets to the men, and mosquito nets to all the women. Everyone also receives 20 Baht (Thai currency) and some SDA booklets. I taught his daughter at Walla Walla Coll
ege in the early 1990s. She was the Administrator at this school after she graduated from WWC; but the Thailand Mission recently invited her to head the mission school. Normally, we leave early on Sunday morning for the 4-hour drive to the Tiger Temple. But this year most of the group wanted to spend the full day with the tigers. So they are paying approximately $150.00 each for this cultural, religious, and environmental experience. We begin the day at 7:15am with breakfast with the monks and the volunteers from around the world. Thus it was necessary that we travel tonight and awake fresh for this experience of a lifetime.
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