Anyway. I'm going to skip pictures this time, because my computer doesn't feel like loading anything. Annoying. This should be long enough anyway though. I had to go read my own blog to find out the last time I had written. Sorry!
So we got on a train at 4:15 P.M. on Wednesday afternoon of last week. We arrived back to APSAI shortly after 10 A.M. Thursday morning. Is that ridiculous or what? Because of the rain, there was sever flooding which meant the train had to go super slow. We actually caught the last train out of Chaeng Mai for a few days, so it was good timing; just a little slow. We had the rest of the day on Thursday off, which was good because we were super exhausted. I don't exactly remember what I did, it's all a little foggy. But I was in bed by 6:30. Not asleep, but in bed. Life was good that night.
Friday we stayed on this side of town, and walked over to Assumption University, an English speaking university about a mile from our location. We wandered around the campus for a while, and tried to meet some people, then headed over to our favorite coffee shop for some good 'ol study time. Of course, with 3 other awesome people there, you don't get much studying done, but the waffles are awesome. When we gave up on being productive, we headed over to Soi 40 for some awesome food, and played Settlers of Catan until we couldn't stand being around each other any longer. We did something else after that, but I can't remember what.
Saturday we woke up crazy early and jumped in vans to head over towards Ekkamai. Alan and Deanna's ministry in the slum areas includes a once a month activity; this month they rented out an indoor soccer field, and brought in a pastor who is also an awesome soccer coach. We bussed in about 30 kids from Ekkamai Sip Sii, one of the areas we hang out in, and played soccer, colored, did crafts, and ate lunch with. Then we ran the kids home, and headed over to Ekkamai Sam Sip to teach English. This was our weekend to be at APSAI for the weekend, so we got to go to Family Night with everybody. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, corn and broccoli casserole, biscuits, and banana foster; then watched Tangled. Such a good movie; we chose a fantastic night to be around!
Today, Sunday, was so much fun. It was our first Sunday in the new church building- absolutely amazing. The new campus is huge, with so much room to grow. Pii Wan asked the three of us NU girls to do a special song, so we did that during offering, which was super fun. Because it was the first Sunday, a lot of the missionaries were there for the service, so it kind of turned out to be "thai" side of church, and a "farang" side. It was funny. But it was really cool to see the absolute joy in everyone's hearts. Such an awesome thing to get to be involved in that church.
After church, we hung out for about 2 hours, then headed over to Bandan with Dua to teach English. Alan wasn't going with us this time, so he asked to us to go say hi to a lady and her daughter, as well as teach at the two places we usually go to. So we stopped at the school we teach in first, and it was all locked up because the lady in charge is mai sabi- sick. That was a bummer, but no problem. We headed over to the lady's house: not home. So we headed over to David's house. He had a stroke somewhat recently, and doesn't have a lot of muscle control on his left side. Alan has known him for a while, and when we first got here, he brought us over to meet him. There ended up being some kids hanging around, so now each Sunday we go over there at about 5 om and teach English. There is one boy there, Don, who is super smart, he is the only consistent one, but man, that kid catches on fast. Davids house is in the not so nice part of the slum, but they are super nice, and very willing to let us come crash their house for an hour or so each week. When we got done there, we headed back over to Tai Ping, and had dinner, then headed home.
So that's what's been going on. This week is going to be a crazy one; there is a quarterly meeting for all the missionaries in Thailand this week. So we are going to sit in on the meetings, and lead worship for the services and stuff, as well as our normal stuff. I swear that I will be more consistent about this... Sorry I let it go so long.
I'll try to hop on and load up some Chaeng Mai Pictures up soon!
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