Our summer overseas began at 5:30am Tuesday May 24th. We traveled for approximately 52 hours total! Our flight schedule looked a little like this:
Birmingham - Charlotte, NC
Charlotte - New York
5 hr. layover in JFK
New York - Singapore
Singapore - Bangkok
7 hr. layover
Bangkok - Khon Kaen!
Most of our team at our last layover in Bangkok
The Great Diamond!
This is the mothership that brought us safely to Singapore
It was a long and exhausting trip. But we watched plenty of movies and had lots of quality team bonding time! Our longest flight was 21 hours from New York to Singapore. I am officially not a fan of airplane food... but nevertheless is was an exciting adventure! (Don't worry Dad, I made sure to stretch and walk around every hour!)
When we finally arrived in Khon Kaen we were greeted with open arms and loving smiles! Campus Outreach Thailand staff, friends, and family members gave us a huge welcome and quickly piled us onto trucks (which are called "Song Tauw" here) to take us to our new homes!
We are staying at the Great Diamond. These nice and safe apartments are located just minutes from the campus of Khon Kaen University. All of our CCP team is living together in this complex and we each share a room with one other roommate. My roomie is Christine Black and she is wonderful :) We met on Beach Project last summer and I'm so glad we have the chance to get to know each other better. She just graduated from UNA and is starting graduate school in the fall. I am thankful for her cleanliness :)
More pictures are on their way!
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