Sickness and chaos sort of won the past week or so…it happens.
Keeping The Breakfast Club, Flour & Flowers, the Reinforcers and Playhouse going through a regular week is a challenge anyway, and we’re trying to get The Summer Program started next Monday…
And then there was sickness. And there’s a few other projects we haven’t even had time to write about yet: the ladies making jewelry two days a week; the Bible school we’re working with to make reusable bags; the new migrant insurance program we’re partnering with; the Thai lessons that Mwei Mwei started; the photography lessons Stephen is teaching; the surprise iMac we were gift last week that Stephen’s setting up for the community.
Hence the radio silence.
But, we went to Bangkok last weekend! Stephen ran a 5k and I {attempted} a 10k…It was much sloppier and harder than I anticipated, but I had a fever the following three days, so 🤷🏼♀️
It was a Music Run, so they had speakers lining the whole path–hundreds of them. It was incredible. They played music through all the races. (We took this photo on our way to check-in. Can you see the speakers lining the whole way?)
We arrived to get our packs at 2:30pm, so we had a few hours to burn. And since it’s Bangkok and it takes a few hours to go anywhere, we just sat at the park and read our books.
We checked our bag at the check-in, but kept our books out to read until the start. Later when Stephen brought them back by the lady recognized him (probably the white guy with his book out at a race?) and said, “Ready to put your book in your bag?” 😂
We were clearly the coolest people there.
We also rounded out the weekend meeting with our caseworker, putting our best foot forward in our attempts at real adult clothes.
Here’s to hoping next year we can run with baby bunny in a jogging stroller! 😊