Week 4 begins!

Howdy. Sorry. Been around the SAGU and Evangel people to much. Hi!

Tomorrow begins week 4- And we have grand plans in place for it. But first: Today. 

Today, obviously, is Sunday, and it was pretty fantastic. We started out the morning with a lovely jaunt down the Soi, and a taxi ride to Ekkamai for church. It's really fun to try to talk to the taxi drivers in Thai, because they get all excited, and think that you speak conversationally. Then you're stuck there looking confused until he laughs hysterically. Ah yes, just another day in Thailand :)

Today was Birthday day in church, where they celebrate everybodies birthday with a meal and cake, and all that jazz; that was sooo much fun. One of the APSAI ministry groups is going to Bangkok City Church also, so that was fun to have more farang there. We went over to a coffee shop after lunch and grabbed drinks, then the APSAI guys left, and we headed back to the church to hang out for a little bit longer.Alan met us there, and we helped him put together some stuff for the classes he's teaching, and then we headed over to Ban Don, the Muslim slum we hung out at last week. We went to the school first, where we taught English for about an hour. So much fun. We did that kids song "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" about 80 times, and had a blast, then worked on forming sentences. I think I will be having dreams with the words: "This is my nose" "This is her nose" "This is his nose" "Where is your nose" all night. It will be fantastic. Then we headed over to Lot, and Nada's house to visit, but Nada was on her way to Islamic school. We asked if we could tag along and meet the teacher, and they were happy to oblige, so we meandered our way through the sidewalks, then talked to the Islamic teacher for about 20 minutes. He teaches the kids Arabic, and the Koran, and stuff like that. While we were there, the speakers that usually blare the call to prayer started having a bunch of little girls voices singing over it, and the teacher said that this was the winner of the contest they had just had; she was singing the Koran, or psalms out of it or something like that. He had to start class, so we didn't hang out there too long; we headed down the canal a little bit to a man named David's house. David had a stroke a couple of months ago, and it looked like his left side was severely affected, but he is in the process of recovery. When the kids saw a bunch of farang, they got curious, so we ended up teaching English for about another 30 minutes. Teaching was the thing that I was the most nervous about, and I'm finding its one of my favorite things here.It's hard because of the language barrier, but it is a lot of fun. 

We met up with the rest of the APSAI crew, and headed over to dinner, and then home.

And now I will bid adieu, because I'm soooo ready for bed. As soon as I finish laundry. And a paper. And some reading. Anyway. Night!