Two Dogs and Menus

     The students in the Summer DTS are getting ready to go on outreach and it has me thinking about Thailand and Memuyl and all the other people I encountered. One of the girls asked me if I did anything stupid on outreach. I simply looked at her and shook my head. If you do not know me it is easy to assume I would have been the one to stay as close to the house(s) as possible, but that is not me. Especially when I am in a foreign country and there is so much to explore... and I am on a team of almost twenty people. Do not get me long, I loved every moment with them, but I had to have time to myself- and that usually happened by wandering around Thailand. Not the whole country, but where we were at. (;
     So, I would wander- a lot. My leaders knew I was going out, and one of them (who is a mother) would always tell me to be careful. I would get what time (roughly, since we are talking Thai time) I would need to be back and set off. I ended up getting lost multiple times- since I have a knack for that and all. But lost or not, something that always ended up happening was this: a man would start to follow me. You would think after the first time I would have stopped going out, but it did not deter me too much, if at all. So I would be walking and staring and taking in every part of whatever town/city we were in and I would begin to feel like someone was watching me. I'd half turn, act like I was looking at a booth/store and check to see what was going on around me. Many times there would be some man I had passed ten minutes prior not too far behind me. Being aware of this, I would make more turns through the town and be checking continually. One thing about living where we were was that I had to walk down a long, rather closed and mostly deserted road. Actually, many roads were like this. So being followed, I would begin to pray about it. Asking God to help me remember where to go and show me a shortcut, and make him go away. Without fail, two dogs would come and walk on either side of me. (Mind you, these are street dogs- you don't mess with them.) Within five minutes, the man would be gone. Every.Single.Time.
     Also, I am in the middle of my week "off". I have been working on the menus and I am so happy to say that I have finally completed them. Oh, what joyous relief. And now I need to fundraise. Yay!
     Also, I moved. So send me something. I like letters. And I am running out of pens and stamps. Just saying. Oh, I also like Nutella. (;