Tuesday!

Good evening all!
Today was fantabulous, as we once again had the opportunity to sleep in. It's getting somewhat obnoxious, thus we have resolved to be up at 8 am tomorrow; which means this will be kept brief. After waking up, and making ourselves beautiful, the three of us girls headed over to the little restaurant on Soi 40, who is currently employing our cook for APSAI. We introduced ourselves; not quite sure how much of it made it across the language barrier. But we tried. We raced back to Soi 42 just as Alan pulled up for our tutorial. So we headed upstairs to his office, and sat down for some intense discussion. It's pretty amazing how fast time flies by when you're engaged in conversation. We were talking about the how of missions; how to create a strategy, how to start. We also talked about how roughly one third of the world has not heard the name of Christ. Isn't that crazy?
Watch this video. It's good; but sad. Slightly overdramatic, but filled with fact.
Then we talked about how the majority of Christian missionaries are going where there is already an established church, with Christians, and programs, and curriculum. But there are people in the world who don't have access, so we need to be sending people into those areas; even if it means danger, difficulty, or inconvenience.
Anyway, off the soapbox, sorry.
So right after we got out of tutorial, we headed out with Kara to go downtown Bangkok, and hot up the enormous mall down there. We took a taxi to the Airport Link, the Airport Link to the BTS, and the BTS to the street by the mall. We passed by a big temple area where people were buying flowers, and taking them to a big gold statue; there they bowed a couple of times, and placed the flowers in front of the statue. It was sickening to see all the westerners doing it; they had no clue what they were doing, or about any of the symbolism behind it. Some parents were having their kids do it while they took pictures, thinking it was so cute.... If you ever go on vacation, please research stuff before you do it; some things have very deep spiritual meanings, and as Christians, we have no place in that. Thank You.
Again, climbing off the soapbox. So we hung out at the mall for a few hours; they had an enormous Forever 21, and gelato, and tons of shops. Lots of fun. Then we went and did a little more shopping on the streets, got a skirt and a shirt, for less than 10 bucks. Yayy for cheap shopping!The first time we tried to buy something though, the lady was super rude. I'm not sure if we did something to offend her on accident, or if she just wasn't having a good day; but Kara started to barter with her ( which is perfectly allowable and typical with street vendors) and the lady snatched the shirt out of Kara's hands, hung it back up really fast, said No, and stomped off around the corner, without saying another word. It was super weird, because all of the other Thai's we have met have been super nice, and polite. If we make mistakes, they don't point them out, but they don't get offended either, we're just farang's. Oh well though. Nothing we can do about it now.

Alrighty ya'll. Have a fantastic day. Hit me up on Skype if you see me on there, I'm getting a webcam tomorrow :)

P.S. This is all a day ago. I now have a webcam.