While yesterday was rather uneventful, today was the antithesis to uneventful. The day started with a phone call that one of our team members, who had been having some problems with her eye, was having serious problems with it this morning. Arrangements were made for her to go see a local doctor at 8:00 in Muak Lek. That doctor sent her to an eye specialist in Saraburi for further testing. That doctor wanted to send her to Mission Hospital in Bangkok but after the tests came back it wasn’t as serious as he’d originally feared. Her eye had been pretty badly scratched sometime this p
ast week and had become infected. She has some medicine for it and the doctor wants her to check in again in a couple days to see how it’s progressing. She was a real trooper and came and taught at the English Language Center tonight and seems to be doing much better, but she had a pretty traumatic day. We just thank God that it was not worse. The teachers were one person short this morning but they combined their classes and made a go of it. Some of the students made lovely cards for their teachers to thank them for spending time teaching them English these past two weeks. Tomorrow is the last day at the school. The team has really enjoyed their experience there.
It rained last night – a LOT. So no gravel was delivered to the farm again today. But we had plenty to do. We finished weeding our second chili pepper field and then moved on to the bean field, which we’ll finish up tomorrow.
After a quick lunch and time spent running around taking care of some business for this weekend, we got the
team together and went to Dr. and Mrs. Hamara’s home for a WONDERFUL pizza dinner. Mrs. Hamara must have worked all day to cook so much food for us. Homemade pizzas, French fries, green salad, fresh mango, and chocolate cake (from scratch). They knew most people would be ready for some familiar food from home – and they were right. It was delicious.
We quickly went straight from dinner to the English Language Center for our last night with the kids. And what a night it was. We partied!!! The team members working with the youngest students really wanted to treat the kids to cupcakes tonight. Amazingly t
he university cafeteria was willing to make us 50 muffin-type cupcakes on short notice. “Cupcake” was one of the new words the team had taught to the children this week. The team also bought all kinds of prizes and handed them out as rewards while reviewing all the new words the kids had learned the last two weeks. There were lots of hugs and pictures as the kids and team members said their goodbyes. It was a great time.
During our closing party the heavens opened and the thunderstorm came with a fury! We drove home in some pretty crazy weather. But the team members were undaunted by the storm. In fact they were pumped up. The best team I ever worked with was the group that came to Thailand in 2004. Tonight I made it official that THIS group is the new best team ever!!!! That announcement set them off – they were singing, laughing, and making songs and jingles up at the top of their lungs the whole way home. What a great group! It was surely a memorable day for all of us.
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