It's funny as you walk around Agape Orphanage you'll hear the boys and girls saying "Girls, Exercise" in the exact same tone and voice that I say it every time I call the girls for exercise. Every day at 4:30, I open up my mouth and yell (if you know me, you know I have a very, very loud voice :)) "GIRLS EXERCISE". They all rush into the worship hall and we have exercise class. They love it, and I love it too because it forces me to exercise every day :) Today I decided to do exercise class a little differently. I yelled "GIRLS EXERCISE" and I heard little voices all over Agape repeating it. One little boy named Nowah loves to run up to me say it, put a huge smile on his face, and then run away. It's so cute! I told the girls that today we were going to go jogging. I had my running shoes on and I was ready. As we all lined up outside I said "Prom rian- Are you ready?" I heard a lot of yes's so we began our jog. As the cars drove past us the passengers faces turned from solemn looks to precious smiles. I'm not sure if they were smiling because they saw a foreigner or because of how funny we probably looked. Here's 4o little girls running down the road, half with shoes on (and most of the shoes were flip-flops that were way too big for them) and half without shoes on (most of the children don't really like shoes...it's strange) and there's one girl who's the tallest of them all who totally stands out leading the pack. It definitely had to of been a funny sight. The girls had a blast! We ran about 2 miles down the road, had our stretch time and then ran the two miles back. As we ran back we were running right into the sunset. It was beautiful! One of the best jogs I've ever been on. The Thai air going into my lungs, the mountains and sunset filling up my sight, and the sound of 40 girls laughter and voices speaking to me and to eachother filling my ears. I've decided exercise class is going to have more days of jogging filled with more sunsets, more of God's creation and more laughter filling the Huai Bong Village!
*I put up a couple new pics :)
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Sorry I haven't gotten ahold of you! I was already in bed the first night and its been crazy lately. I'm off to the States on Monday so have a lot of running around to do. Maybe tomorrow night I can call you and May?? It'll be around 9:30pm if I do. Sound ok? Love the stories! Keep'em coming!
I totally smile reading this! I can picture every bit of it! :)
Andrea,
Another enjoyable day in the land of Thai. It seems you are teaching us that the best things in life are free. The simple pleasures of life can be had at no cost. Living life to the fullest is available to all of us, from the poorest to the richest. Even with or witout shoes. In your case it appears that the poorest are experiencing are greater joy than some of our well to do friends. The great joys of life are always before us if we know what to look for. It gives us a better understanding of Isa.55:1
Ho, every one that thirstest, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price.
I missed the sunset, but I did take a moment to stop to gaze in awe and wonder at all the stars in the night sky. Come to think of it, theres a free seat available anytime I want to stop and take a look around at Gods handiwork.
Thanks for journaling. Love, DAD
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