Quotes...

"Spirituality is not to be learned in flight from the world, by fleeing from things to a place of solitude; rather, you must learn to maintain an inner solitude regardless of where you are or who you are with. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there." - Meister Eckhart -

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Somewhere In California

So.....
It's been about 10 days since I set my foot back here on the States' soil.
Boy, it sure feels good to be back home.
Before I left for my trip to Thailand, I thought that I'd never want to come back. But somewhere along the way that thought had changed. And I am actually glad that I'm back home safe and sound.

I love the outdoors.
So sleeping in huts, battling mosquitoes and other bugs, taking cold showers, living very minimal didn't bother me at all. But by the end of my stay in Thailand, I knew it was time for me to go.
...time for me to venture out into something different.

So here I am.
Back home.
I ought to be looking for new challenges...
...but for the past week I've been the laziest that I'd ever been.

Took a whole month off from work - spent two weeks in Thailand - and now I'm spending the rest of my time at home. And it's GRRREAT!
Except that I ought to be working towards something - living towards something.
Hmmm.... what new ventures can I plunge into???

Haven't thought much about the trip since I've been back.
I've "processed" just about all my thoughts while in-country. And I don't wish to dwell in past thoughts now that I'm home.
So... I thought I'd wait 'til some revelation - a revelation that will give me amazing thoughts to put onto these pages.
Then I read one of my friend's blogs...

I don't have to put anything amazing!
Just thoughts...
But I don't have much to say right now.

So here it is.
A visual timeline of my trip to Thailand (due to time constraint, I've only put up a small amount of pics from the island)

driving on left side

STOP!

On the way to school... to teach

Homes on the island


Our school in the middle of the moutains

E1 teaching English

E2 teaching English

Our classroom

The students

Little 'uns playing with soccer ball

Our optometrist. Saving one sight at a time

Our worksite

Fishing out logs

Maneuvering more logs

Sharpening logs with a hatchet

74+ logs sharpened

Posting logs into ground


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First of 74 posts to break the ground

We've cleared the path and posted 74 logs into the ground.
More work to be finished by other teams.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice recap!!-e2

Anonymous said...

Yo! Some really nice pics in there. Good luck with your new ventures.

-Aric

Helen Cook said...

these are great pix!
so proud of you!
(speaking for the big daddy up there)

:D