News, notes and anecdotes about our life with the Akha hilltribe
Thank you for taking the time to view Journey Notes - our online journal. In this Journal you can read about Paul and Lori's experiences living in Northern Thailand as we work with the Akha Hilltribe.
Please also take a look at our prayer and praise reports and our personal blogs from the links on top of this page for more updates from us in this adventure. You can also visit our homepage at to view our bios, photo galleries, newsletters and a little information about the Akha hilltribe (more to come the more we learn - we're still new at all this).
Now... on to the posts!
Pray For Lori (and Abi, Esther & some Germans)
Saturday, August 9, 2008
While I'm stuck in meetings discussing the new Akha orthography (actually, a really cool experience that I will fill you all in more on later) Lori is much more literally stuck in Mae Salong with a broken vehicle.
You heard it right, our truck is broken again.
A very similar problem to all our other vehicle issues, actually, as there seems to be a crack in the feed from the radiator to the engine.
She has the baby, Esther and two German visitors - (one of whom is a doctor who just helped out with a free clinic in a local village, I'm sure that's another cool story that we will fill you all in more on later) - so her hands are full.
Please pray for peace for them, for safety and for a tow truck that actually can tow a vehicle (as opposed to the rope/bamboo contraption we dealt with before.)
Don't worry, we'll leave the vehicle in Mae Salong before we have Lori do anything dangerous.
Just want to clear something up. I'm not discussing the orthography but am simply sitting in the meeting of Akha leaders who are discussing said orthography.
I have neither the language, nor the expertise nor the ethnicity to add to this discussion and am simply honored to be allowed to hear the conversation.
***Update. Lori just called and we are going to leave the truck in MaeSalong and import a mechanic to fix it. They will all take public transportation down from MaeSalong. Thank God that our director's son Zion was there to help with the translations!
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