A very good morning to you ka!
Life has been on the busy end and in between, it's been so rewarding!
As a few of our Thai grantees in the US just graduated, some have returned home and so these days, we are happily busy welcoming them back.
Besides his 'caring' experiences, actively helping offer food to the disadvantaged, this new alum came back with a great attitude about 'failure'. He now feels failing is fine especially for the startups and that it's also fine to fail more than once to learn more ka! How he wishes our country would allow failure to be part of our culture ka!
We also have several Thai alumni who wrote or visited. One wrote how her Fulbright/Humphrey experiences led her to initiate a project with her Humphrey friend to set up a student affairs section at Soutsaka College, nurturing spirit of volunteerism in Laotian students.
Another Thai alum came to our office after years staying in the US. She was with her two little kids, one 8-month old and the other around 3. I couldn't imagine how she handled the two while on board the plane especially the long flight (her husband said she is very capable lae ka!) I was touched that she managed to visit us too. The effort to see us was really meaningful to our hearts.
Tomorrow, an American alum will be back to his second home here in Thailand. His love of teaching, his kind heart, and his gentle manner are so precious that all, himself, we here, his Thai friends and students, will find it a wonderful delight to welcome him back but another difficult bittersweet goodbye ka.
Have a very beautiful day na ka.....after all, friendship from people-to-people contacts stays on to for heart-to-heart happiness ka.
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