Ready to Leave
Dear All,
This last week has been an interesting and busy one as we worked to see friends and do things for the last time before E's school holiday and have been getting ready for the traveling we'll be doing during the holiday.
Tomorrow we're leaving for long weekend in Chaing Mai where we'll be going to the elephant camp there with friends of ours from the states who are in Thailand for a while and going on a rock climbing trip with a company in town. Then we're leaving for Bangkok and time down in the south of Thailand, spending some days on the southern beaches. We have to return to Chiang Rai for E to be paid by the school before we fly to Malaysia where we'll be traveling for about two weeks, getting our scuba diving certificate and going to one of the large Natl. forests called Taman Negara where they have a tree top walk where you can see monkeys and whatnot in their natural habitat as walkways stretch between the trees, it should be interesting as I'm slightly afraid of hights but I'm looking forward to it.
After our time in Malaysia we'll be flying on to Hanoi in Vietnam for ten days, we're looking forward to our time there as we'll be taking a kiaking tour which sounds absolutely amazing! After all that we'll be returning to Chiang Rai and getting ready for E to teach one more month of school before we fly out of Bangkok on June 14th.
It's a busy schedule and odd at times but we feel we have everything worked out by now, at least the large scale plans and we're looking forward to it.
We're already rather tired after this week. Last Sunday E and I went down and hit some balls at the driving range with our friends Allen and Tricia, our instructor, Barry, wasn't there so we all took turns telling her what she was doing wrong and how to improve and giving her all the hints he had given us. I had my last Thai lesson last Monday and promised my teacher I would contact her when we're back if only to have lunch together, she's a neat girl who I've enjoyed getting to know.
Tuesday we had lunch with a missionary friend of ours, returning three seasons of Scrubs which they lent us and filling up on Mexican food at a great restaurant we've discovered outside of town before returning to have dinner with our friends Allen and Tricia who will be returning to Scotland while we're off traveling. Our time in CR would have been very different if we hadn't met them and they sure made a lot of things more enjoyable and interesting. Yesterday E had a party at school celebrating a teacher who was retiring and herself and the students had a chance to thank them for everything and vice versa. Then that evening we went out to dinner at the night bazaar with a bunch of teachers from the school and one of Erika's classes, it was great fun to see how close some of the kids have gotten to different teachers and how E interacts with them. It was one of her favorite classes and they gave her a bunch of gifts and thanked her again for the time she's spent with them and everything, it was neat.
Tonight we're having our Filipino friends over, their cooking us Filipino food and we're doing our nails before we head out dancing! One of the Filipino's, Fred- a loung singer in one of the upscale restaurants, doesn't get off of work until after midnight so it will probably be a late and interesting night but we're looking forward to it. We're heading to CM tomorroow but have three hours on the bus to sleep whereas Mary and Malou have final tests and exams they have to give at school tomorrow but they are determined.
Thank you all for your letters and for your prayers as we've dealt with our Nai's death and the way this very different culture mourns and grieves, we really do appreciate it.
Hopefully my next letter will be between our trips to CM and Bangkok. Until then, love you all and miss you,
Kristen Rose
This last week has been an interesting and busy one as we worked to see friends and do things for the last time before E's school holiday and have been getting ready for the traveling we'll be doing during the holiday.
Tomorrow we're leaving for long weekend in Chaing Mai where we'll be going to the elephant camp there with friends of ours from the states who are in Thailand for a while and going on a rock climbing trip with a company in town. Then we're leaving for Bangkok and time down in the south of Thailand, spending some days on the southern beaches. We have to return to Chiang Rai for E to be paid by the school before we fly to Malaysia where we'll be traveling for about two weeks, getting our scuba diving certificate and going to one of the large Natl. forests called Taman Negara where they have a tree top walk where you can see monkeys and whatnot in their natural habitat as walkways stretch between the trees, it should be interesting as I'm slightly afraid of hights but I'm looking forward to it.
After our time in Malaysia we'll be flying on to Hanoi in Vietnam for ten days, we're looking forward to our time there as we'll be taking a kiaking tour which sounds absolutely amazing! After all that we'll be returning to Chiang Rai and getting ready for E to teach one more month of school before we fly out of Bangkok on June 14th.
It's a busy schedule and odd at times but we feel we have everything worked out by now, at least the large scale plans and we're looking forward to it.
We're already rather tired after this week. Last Sunday E and I went down and hit some balls at the driving range with our friends Allen and Tricia, our instructor, Barry, wasn't there so we all took turns telling her what she was doing wrong and how to improve and giving her all the hints he had given us. I had my last Thai lesson last Monday and promised my teacher I would contact her when we're back if only to have lunch together, she's a neat girl who I've enjoyed getting to know.
Tuesday we had lunch with a missionary friend of ours, returning three seasons of Scrubs which they lent us and filling up on Mexican food at a great restaurant we've discovered outside of town before returning to have dinner with our friends Allen and Tricia who will be returning to Scotland while we're off traveling. Our time in CR would have been very different if we hadn't met them and they sure made a lot of things more enjoyable and interesting. Yesterday E had a party at school celebrating a teacher who was retiring and herself and the students had a chance to thank them for everything and vice versa. Then that evening we went out to dinner at the night bazaar with a bunch of teachers from the school and one of Erika's classes, it was great fun to see how close some of the kids have gotten to different teachers and how E interacts with them. It was one of her favorite classes and they gave her a bunch of gifts and thanked her again for the time she's spent with them and everything, it was neat.
Tonight we're having our Filipino friends over, their cooking us Filipino food and we're doing our nails before we head out dancing! One of the Filipino's, Fred- a loung singer in one of the upscale restaurants, doesn't get off of work until after midnight so it will probably be a late and interesting night but we're looking forward to it. We're heading to CM tomorroow but have three hours on the bus to sleep whereas Mary and Malou have final tests and exams they have to give at school tomorrow but they are determined.
Thank you all for your letters and for your prayers as we've dealt with our Nai's death and the way this very different culture mourns and grieves, we really do appreciate it.
Hopefully my next letter will be between our trips to CM and Bangkok. Until then, love you all and miss you,
Kristen Rose
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