Anyway. So today was our first official day off...so natural we played with Tigers and did cartwheels in the rain. I'd say it was quite a successful one. We went to Tiger Kingdom in the morning; it was awesome, but I'm morally conflicted. One part is saying awesome I just took a cat/kat nap with tigers and the other is saying I just paid money (aka funded the continuing of) letting people keep tigers in cages and hit them with sticks. I'm pretty sure the big ones were either drugged or all the life and joy had been sucked out of them. The baby ones still had their innocence though... But I did whisper encouragement in their ears and got some really great pictures with them. At one point one of the babies was crawling up me eating my hand while another one was trying to eat its tail but mistook my foot for its tail...a slight ouch but very funny :)
Then we went and ate lunch with our Taxi driver Ping Pong...he is so funny! He drives us around everyday and is amazing. Julie and him are best friends...he's a joker so they bond very well. Then we came home and took a much needed nap. We now have air conditioning...except we couldn't figure out how to work it...who knew 30 degrees C was like 86 F...woops my bad, no wonder it was blowing hot air and we were sweating even more than normal (which I didn't know it was possible for anymore sweat to come out my pores). Then we headed to church. It's called The Light, and meets at the Wongen Kafe that we hang out at. It was really good and this week we split up into small group for the sermon section and we got to do an English one so we actually understood the message which was nice. Then we headed home and were going to get dinner and hit up the night market.
On the way to market a man on a bike rode up and started talking to me. He offered me food and jumped off his bike. A little sketch but randomly turned out to be super awesome. Julie and him started singing the Eagles and then he sang us a song he wrote. It was really good, he's a musician but doesn't have a guitar at the moment so he can't get a job. Julie asked if we could pray for him and he said yes please :) We invited him to dinner, but he declined. We then ran into him later and he asked us when the rapture was coming. lol It was hilarious.
We had to skip the market and just do dinner b/c it started raining...and when it rains it pours. Julie went and bought us all ponchos. By the time we got home the road was almost flooded to our knees. So naturally we went and put on shorts and t-shirts and went and played in the street. Brynn, Rachel, Kara, and I had the entire neighborhood out to watch us. I'm sure they were all thinking, "Who are those crazy white girls doing cartwheels in a foot of water? Haven't they ever seen rain before? And don't they know that the goal is to not get wet?" We actually made a guy fall over on his moped...it was soooo funny. He stopped and turned back to look at us and then fell over. He probably thought we were girls gone wild, not little missionaries...just kidding...don't worry we were wearing black shirts not white t-shirts... ;) We came home with all sorts of new species growing on us I'm sure. Don't worry we showered and disinfected.
OK here is the general update...I'm being eaten alive. One day Brynn is the victim of all things bugs and the next thing I know they discover my feet. OMG I have sooooooo many bites all over my heels, the side of my feet, my ankles...the latest...right smack in the middle of my bum and one in my armpit...really mosquitoes? really? Awkward get out of there.
The bars are good. We are making lots of friends. Sadly our English lessons aren't going as well as planned...no one has yet to show up. But we aren't getting discouraged, God has opened some other doors and we've been able to make a lot of friends on campus as well because of it. What we are realizing is that some times tasks that seem the least of importance, God is using the most. The other day we handed out flyers on campus for the cafe and the entire time we kept complaining saying this is so pointless. Then we get back to the cafe and a ton of students we had given a flyer to were there and want to come to English class...weird right?! God is so good :) This reminds me of a line of Sr. Custodian's opening duties from Job's daughters "It teaches that the smallest task deserves the same attention as one of more importance and should be promptly and cheerfully performed." So true and very humbling.
We are having soooo much fun and love Thailand! We are teaching Boy lots of important phrases such as: the song: "Neaner neaner neaner, I speak Thai and you don't.", the phrase: "You are a tool.", how to make the doi doi noise with your hand against your mouth and saying girl over and over (we call it his "call"), and lots of other high class sayings. My favorite is making him do news reports about our trip. He wants to be a reporter so I give him a mic and make him be from the BBC. Its great fun. Don't worry we don't torture him or anything...
OK more later...I'm off to bed. Oh one more thing. We did face painting in the slums the other day...SO MUCH FUN! I loved it. I will say though I've never painted so many Winnie the Poohs in my life, and I'm not sure Brynn so many flowers. Rachel's was the best...she got requested by a 3 yr old to paint a watch on her wrist. Julie got painted by a 3 year old...she had tattoo sleeves of pre-school art down her arms by the end. It was hilarious. Kara and Sam were the photographers and everyone one else spectators. It was quite a lot of fun...till we started getting eaten alive that was. :) Those mosquitoes are cra cra.
Ok Miss you all! Yesterday I got a little bit homesick...I miss hearing my family's voice whenever I want...
But here are some of those pics!
Love and miss you! xx
KL
1 comment:
I love the story of you guys dancing and doing cartwheels in the rain :) You know I would have been so down to join, lol.....lifelong dream :) xx
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