Hello Friends :) So, I totally goofed when we left for Thailand a few weeks ago...... because I forgot my camera. :( Isn't that the saddest thing ever?!?! I was soo upset that I forgot it because there were so many cool things to take pictures of! But my parents took a good amount, so once I get a hold of their camera and download the pictures I can post some on here.
But anyways, we did a ton of awesome stuff in Thailand: we hung out on the beach a lot - which was amaaaaaazzziiiiiinnnggg - went to the night markets, (which are basically really cool bazaars open every night), rode elephants, and just had fun chilling out and exploring here and there. For me it was like a dream vacation to be in the tropics at the beach whenever I wanted, it was so nice; definitely a great escape from cold winter to beautiful summer weather!
The other thing that was neat for me was to spend the time with my family. Hypothetically speaking, this trip will probably be the last family vacation for a long time... so it was really good to be with them. Plus we were able to see some people that are living in Kunming like us, and I got to hang out with some good friends of mine. Thailand is the hangout place during Chinese New Year for expats like us, so it's not really a shocker to run into somebody you know.
Also, during the conference my family and I attended, we got to see a couple young adult girls from our home base in California, and it was so awesome to see them on the other side of the world! So all in all it was a good trip for me mostly because of all the people I was with. But hopefully someday I'll get to go back there in the future to see different parts of Thailand. It really is a beautiful place to vacation and explore, so I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a place to visit overseas.
Well, today is Sunday, and tomorrow is Monday - meaning that everything for the second semester will start up. For the next three or so weeks I'll stay in Kunming with my family, and will be volunteering at KIA (international school Lex and Wyatt are attending) in the library with a really cool gal who is the youth group leader here and one of my good friends, and also with a teacher, one person who I hung out with in Thailand; she's also one of my good friends here in China. I'll also be involved in helping to plan and run Permeate this year. It's a youth conference that's held in Kunming that all of us kids attended last year. I'm looking forward to helping out as a "staff" person and also with the music, it'll be fun. (I think I talked about this a little more in my last entry if you want to check it out).
So Permeate ends on the 26th of February, and then a couple days after that I'll head back to Wen Shan. It's all going to fly by really fast, but I think there's some cool stuff in store for me these last few months that I'm in China. So good thoughts that Daddy would lead me and use me wherever I am the rest of this time would be super appreciated!
Also I'm in the process of deciding what to do about college this fall. I'm thinking I know I want to go to Azusa Pacific, but there's still some questions that need to be asked and answered and planning done... so good thoughts for wisdom about those decisions would also be appreciated. :)
That's all for this chapter, I suppose. Tune in next week!
PS There are some pictures of our trip in Thailand on Facebook. So check them out if you can!
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