Our bedroom closet contains not clothing, but rather a small work space. This desk often becomes our dumping grounds for “those papers you’ll get back to”. Receipts, financial statements, and the like sit there until the pile grows large enough to demand our full attention. This morning it was rather insistent that some progress be… Read More Prayers from Thailand
We spent our Leap Day exploring Thailand. We like the idea that on the next Leap Day we expect to be very much at home in Thailand. That’s a pretty great use of a bonus day! As we put these thoughts together we are making our way from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport (we had to practice… Read More Seventh Impressions | Rejoining the Past Peasants
On our last full day here in Thailand, our thoughts are reaching back through our whirlwind time. We’re positive that we will be processing this experience for weeks and months to come. In conversation with others, be they Thai, foreign, fellow workers, businesspeople, or tourists, all the different sides to Thailand have amazed us. If… Read More Sixth Impressions | This Thailand or That Thailand
Not to get all mathematical on you, but our thoughts feel a lot like solving an equation with a few unknown variables. In a place as vast and diverse as Bangkok (even Thailand as a whole), making key life decisions feels deeply interwoven with other key life decisions. Where to live isn’t just a matter… Read More Fifth Impressions | Fixed Variables to Life in Thailand
We caffeinate like Bangkokians – or at least we’re trying. There is a hole-in-the-wall shop run by two young guys around the corner from where we are staying and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed starting our days there. Mercifully, Thais drink their coffee iced. There’s very little place for hot coffee in this humidity! Cold caffeine has… Read More Fourth Impressions | Day Four in Bangkok
It may sound cliche, but relationship is a high value for us. Really. High. Value. So we enjoyed Day Three by investing in relationships. We spent time with members of the Imagine Thailand team and their families. We lunched with PAOC Global Workers who literally offer decades of experience and insights into Thailand, and we coffeed (yeah, we… Read More Third Impressions | Day Three in Bangkok
We’re just now beginning Day Three here in Bangkok and we’ve done so by reflecting on Day Two. We had lofty intentions of writing last night, but score one for jet lag which hit hard and unmercifully yesterday evening (15 hours is a significant time change). Our days have been filled with spending time with members… Read More Second Impressions | Day Two in Bangkok
When you fly into a new city and it’s already dark, you are afforded a unique opportunity of completely immersing yourself in a place before you actually get to see it. So when you wake up in the morning and look out, you’re in the middle, surrounded by the cityscape. If you land during the day,… Read More First Impressions | Day One in Bangkok
On Tuesday [February 23], we’re headed to Bangkok – a place we will soon call home. It’s kind of a thing of ours. We walked the streets of Nitra and the roads of Włocławek before moving to either place. Nitra was about exploring a town we were set to move to. Roaming Włocławek was part… Read More These Boots Were Made for Walking
Though standing in the foyer of the middle school where our church-plant meets, we found ourselves in a familiar situation we haven’t encountered for awhile. It came during a conversation with a lady we had struck up a conversation with while getting coffee. It progressed though all of the usual “nice to meet you” questions… Read More Just Like Riding a Bicycle
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