Thai on another one

Quote of the day came from Rodney. Lost in translation….
He was tickled to be dispensing glasses to a woman who “was no bigger than a minute.” He said “she was so darn cute he could put her on a cracker and eat her right up.” After she left dispensing, Steven had over heard this and said it would be funny if they translated it in Thai to be “oh he said he wanna eat you like a cracker.”

Each day we are creating a new life and many smiles for the people we help. It’s also amazing how many smiles these people create for us. When we are so tired and our feet hurting from hours of standing, the little things can be so special- from the 82 year old man who grinned from ear to ear giving a thumbs up because he was so happy to get his glasses to the 3 year old who showed off his karate moves to the 2 year old who performed the most amazing wai (a Thai thank you where you put your hands together near your face as though praying and bow) for a lollipop.

Jennifer Bishop had a nice warm and teary eyed fuzzy. She dispensed a pair of -13.00 glasses to a young man who was 24 years old- the same age as one of her sons. This young man had not worn glasses in over 7 years.

The mountain ladies once again came to visit us from one of the neighboring villages. The come in full village attire with these huge turban like head dresses, red boas, and awesome fabric pants which they have hand crocheted- mind you the weather is very hot too. We asked to take a picture of her with her new glasses and she became so excited. She immediately bear hugged Cleopatra, Breann, and Julie and celebrated her new glasses.

We had a group of group of over 100 that had travelled for over 160 miles to come to our One Sight clinic. These people were not scheduled and had decided they would just spend the night outside clinic and wait to see if they could get in the next morning. Rather than turn them away, our clinic eagerly accepted them. Today an amazing 3575 people were served. This brings out clinic total up to 21, 252!

The pinning ceremony occurred tonight. It’s a heartfelt ceremony where we received the first ever One Sight Global Clinic pins. It occurred on a local boat on the lake here in Phayao. In preparation for our boat, several people took Dramamine for motion sickness. We pulled up to our dinner to realize the boat was a stationary and barely on the lake so there was no movement at all to the boat!