My First day: That Changed my Life for Ever

Ok. So this is my week at Bai Yah. De and me got up early that morning to get everything ready to leave on Friday. We did all our business stuff like get things set for her class on Thursday that she was going to miss. So we went everywhere in Bangkok and traffic was so bad that we didn’t leave right when we wanted to but I got going. We had to go to the office to get something and pick up a missionary daughter Anna Wright that was joining us at Bia Yaih. I meet her and her parents talked for a little and then on our way on this five hours drive to Biah Yai in the Northern part of Thailand. The Trip was BEAUTIFUL. Rice fields everywhere and differently it was different from Bangkok. As we were driving on the roads I realized that Buda was everywhere. There was this one Buda on the hillside that was Whi

te and Beautiful it took up most of the mountain. There was another Buda that was being build and it was all Gold and I think that it was better then the Buda that I saw at the Temple. There

 was one thing that I wish I didn’t see was a tuck full of pigs.

They were so cute but I know that they would be killed soon for meat. It was a nice drive there was Long but me and De talked about everything because Anna feel asleep. So then we got there is Bai Yahi and the first thing that we saw was a

 Eson Cat lol I was like it looks like one of the cat you would see in a Chinese Restaurant. But anyways. We got into town and WOW. Culture shock set in. The town was small and there were people

 everywhere. It was nighttime almost nighttime when we got there but still the town was small, so I thought. There was not really a road it was more dirt then road. We meet the pastor and some of the people from the church that were her family. Pastor Dich was her name and she seemed so sweet when I first meet her, but I was in so much shock with the town that I was quiet. I didn’t realize how much shock that I was going through. Mostly the reason I was going through shock was that I saw the bedrooms and shower and they were outside and where we were staying was a barn like Chruch with no AC or beds with a opened aired room where we were going to sleep and the kitchen was outside under and little covered thing. It was cute but diffently nothing that I would staying in. My expectation of the church was so different before I got there. So shock was big. I was happy to meet some of the kids there. 

 and Maih the friendliest kids that I meet before. I said hi to them and then brought all my stuff upstairs. I saw them again when I came downstairs and they gave me a handshake. I was like I am going to teach you a new handshake. De translated that for me. And I showed them a handshake and after that, that all they want to do was that handshake with me. It was my special thing with them. So after we got all settled in, Pastor Dich took us out to eat on the street. I love it because everything was everywhere and you could get anything for so cheap. I got Fried Rice because I was not feeling that hungry but it was good. After we walked back to the church and got ready for bed and that when I FOUND out the most blessed thing in my life. Western Towel and a shower inside the church. Lol the Pastor told us that we could use this one then using the one outside. so I was so so happy.. In this part of Thailand is it cultural to take a shower twice a day.. so I went to take a shower. The shower was just a hose with a little knob that you turn for the water… BUT NO HOT WATER. So cold shower. It was ok because I am use of cold water from swimming but man that was cold. The pastor before we got there put mats on the floor for us and there was a bed. So De and me slept on the bed and Anna was on the mats. Anna was smart because she used a Bug Net… In the next blog I will tell you why she was smart.

Three Weeks down, Three more to Go

HI everyone.. i am back now from Phi Puk.. it is so beautiful down there.. we went to alot of schools and had so so much fun.. i tell you about it in my next blog .. and yes the blog about Bai Ya it is coming i am still working on it.. it was amazing week it is hard to take everything and put it into word. and i will blog about Phi Puk too... We are back in Bangkok for the rest of my time here doing the normal stuff one weekend we are going down to the eastern part of Thailand for one more school with the book of hope team and then we will be back in Bangkok for a week and then I am back home.. it is so sad because i am going to miss all the people that i meet at the two place that we went too.. i love bangkok tho.. but it is like in any city it is nice to be in the city but it is also nice to be away.. So one i am going to get that blog done. two i am going to get the Phi Puk blog done. and Three... wow I can say Thai.. well alot of the basic stuff. like colors, greetings, food, animals, numbers, and best of all... COMPLEMENTS... that is a big thing here.. good food, cute face.. etc. miss you all.. abbey

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Last Day Break... on the beach right before it poured on us.

SOMETIME...

HI everyone.. it has been really amazing out here.. the english in Bai Yai and now Book of Hope in Phi Ket. it is something that i love to do .. teach english and have fun with kids.. I am going to post all my blog from the passed two weeks... on monday... me and dee's day off.. so GOOD times.. on friday night we are going to Fly back to Bangkok and then Saturday Slums all day and Sunday teaching in a Church and then Monday.. DAY OFF.. tuesday meeting, wednesday slums, thursday office day and FRIDAY my friends from VFCC are flying into BKK so i am going to meet them for the day... Saturday Slums, Sunday teaching the kids at Sri and then Slums. So there is a lot to see.. i have learned that it is hard to find time for anything any more here.. Bloggin is at my bottom of my list...

I am back for the Camp

I am BACK>..... but i was so busy that i did not write a blog everyday that i was there.. so it might take time for me to post the WHOLE WEEK BLOG lol... Happy Fourth of July People,, Miss you all and have alot to tell you..

THAT WAS MY CLAss... one of the best improved class in the bunch lol oo i thought so... hehehe 

Bible School Conversation.

Today was suck a long day for me. Waking up at 6 to leave for 7 was not so much fun after going to  around 1:30 at night. Yeah that was hard. But very rewarding. The reason that we had to leave at 7 because traffic hits around 730 ish and De had a class around 8 at the AG Bible School Here. Leaving pretty early was a good idea. As we were stuck in traffic. De told me that she just remember that we had to do the kids church lesson at the church we are having the English Camp at, she just found out yesterday. So we sat there not really sure what to do. Noah's Ark, The Hand Pray, or even the Good Samaritan. There was so much that we could think about but we didn't know these kids, didn't know if they did stuff like this, and we didn't know what to do. So we were brain storming and Noah's Ark seem to be a fun one.. because we could teach them English at the same time with the Animals and the Colors. So we plan the whole thing(i love planning meeting in the car) Ready for the Camp now. So we got to the school and the boy of the campus all five of them were there to help De carry her stuff in. The first one that i meet was Patuio, he was fun and so sweet but ha long story but funny. Anyways.. he told me that i could call him Pat because that is easier for Americas to say. He knew ok English mostly speaking but hearing it. So he asked me a lot of the beginner question. We talked for a little bit learn we both like soccer and the color Blue haha. As he left to go to class for some reason i knew that was not the last time i was going to see him, DURING every break which was a lot of them, he came back to talk to me. He taught me about Hi5 and how to use it. Back to class, De is teaching them about Christian Education, if i could understand it, it would be Great. She really has a passion for it. After Class, was chapel and then Lunch. At lunch, De talked to the Missionary Director of the school, while i sat there hoping to talk to the kids of the school but no one came around me and De. All the boys went to a side table and all the girl talked to their selves. So i sat, got full really quick, ( me and De both are having Stomach problem, eating little getting full, feel like i am constipated all the time(pray for us)) as sitting there, Pat was eating like all of everyone leave lefttover after he already eat his food. But then he came to sit next to me. And wanted to talk English with me. So he asked me question and i asked him question. Then a girl from the school sat across from me and wanted to English with me, so i asked her question they asked me question. The one question that stuck in my head was the question ( do you have a boyfriend?) first the girl asked me and then Pat asked me again, Pat said that the girl across from me want him to ask me. So i said NO, he said oooo Married.. I was like NO no ring, right when i said not married he was like ooo PAT.. lol the girl across from me laughter. Pat asked another question, "she asked me to ask you this, what are you like in a guy" I laughed and the girl across from me was saying NO NO NO i didn't. So Pat was like go ahead. First he needs to be godly, he was like point at his self. and then girl were laugh, he was like more i want to know more. The girl across from me said Fun, handsome.. the whole time pat was making his self know oo like me. And then i said Willing to go to different lands like Sudan.. he was like oooo Korean.. i was like no Sudan.. he was like ooo Korean lol i laughed because Korean is where he wants to go. I laughed because the girl were talking to him and making him embarrassed for saying it haha. He was like you know i am only 18 i was like NO... he was like yes.. one girl said no... he was like yes i took 10 year and put it in the bank.. hahah that was the best joke ever. It was nice, he wanted to talk more but i need to go.. so we said goodbye and left with saying i like talking to you. It was one crazy lunch time. After that De dropped we off with the rest of the team of Book of Hope at the university, where they were just sitting down in the open air sitting area and just talking to kids that wanted to practice English it was so long.. i talked to like 20 kids.. but fun.. After i took a taxi home again. then then got things really for camp and then went to bed... it was a long good day

O pray for my team that is going to the Camp is it going to be long and hard teaching at the Camp and i probably will not have internet was this might be the last blog of this week.. i will post seven probably when i come back. Good reading material. haha Love you all. 

English and Cell Group on Anger

After visiting the AG Book Store, i was a pretty normal day in the office. Did some work, worked on my paper for my GIS class. After a long day at work, De, Ami, Ami Mother, and I went to a new part of town. The town is a suburb of Bangkok. We were going to this woman's house in this small but big population community, where we were going to have a Kid's English/Bible Story lesson. It was so much fun being with these kids because they know some English. Like "What is your name" "How are you" "Fine and you?" It was fun because i am learning similar things but in Thai. So the kids in the beginning were teaching me Thai, and then Me and De started to teach them new things. First we played 7 up again but first in Thai and then in English. I was proud of myself being able to say the Numbers in Thai. I got them.. YES... Then we begin our lesson.  We were talking to them about the 5 w's (Who, What, Where, When, Why) This was so much fun to do, because me and De came up with a skit for it. I was sitting there mind my own business while De was telling them about Who. in Thai.. and then She took the WHO sticker and stuck it on me and was like WHAT was that for.. the kids laugh, she was like you are a who.. i was like OOOOOO... and then she said this is a what and slapped it on my cellphone that i was holding. And it went from there. It was fun for the kids to see De slap the things on things around me. After Telling them about the 5 W's, we played a game that i thought about in the office that day. We took sticker that were already made before in the office that said Who?WHat?Where?When?Why? and gave them to the kids. We told them that they had to go around the room and find where to stick the stickers. It was funny to see all 25 kids run around the room and stick sticker everywhere. Me and De had stick all over us. I had Who stickers and a couple of sticker that should have not been on me.. and De had a ton to of When's on her watch, and the house walls had a ton of Where. It was a great game to use. If i was a teacher i def. would use that game to teach my kids. Maybe God wants me to be a teaching overseas... i have been thinking about it. I love teaching them English. After we taught, the kids, if You remember in my last blogs about getting all those prizes from that lady, yes this is the group that we were getting them for.. the kids were so excited to get all the tickets and turned them in for amazing prizes. It was fun.. talking to the kids after the class. after the kids left we started to get ready for the adult cell group in the house. They sang some songs and then Ami's mom talked from the Pastor sermon that Sunday. It was about anger. At this point, i found out that Thai people even being so laid back really deal with more anger just being laid back them most people that are not. The anger that they were talking about was again one other. As i was sitting there, and De stop translating for me. I started to think to myself. I am not anger against anyone, but why do i feel anger in my life? I was thinking about my testimony that i just shared a couple minutes ago. You know.. i am not anger at anyone but i am anger still at myself for knowing what is right and choosing wrong. I asked God to show me and he did.. he showed me that the anger in my heart was the anger for doing wrong in my life. This anger provoked me to cut myself before, to form locked doors in my heart, and turn to more sin for comfort. This anger was indulging in my life and affect my relationship with God and people. I thought that i was over all the hurt, and i was but i was not over the anger toward myself. So at that moment in the middle of listening to Ami's mom i started to cry out to God to take this anger away from me. To take my anger and change it to love for myself. I am not going to lie to myself, it is going to take time, but after i prayed, felt this amazing warm of big arm wrapped around me. It is one of those amazing experience that God brings in your life to show that he is there for you. From there, i felt better and ready for anything. The devil has no place in my heart and anger is one of them. Freedom is what i look for, and i praise God for that everyday....

Eating that night with a BIG meal was great.. but to fulling for me.. i was ready to roll over and die lol. Driving back again with Ami in the car.. WE SO Want to talk to each other but we cant because of the language.. So as i learn one way she is learning my way. We made a promise through Deanna's help that in Two years i will come back being able to speak Thai and Ami speaking English. We shocked hands and i really feel that i will be back again knowing sentence in Thai.. that was the end of my night.. bed time now so that i can wake up at 6 to held to the Bible school today.. 

Balance

 Other day, other week started. I woke up in the morning and we made our way to the Large AG Thai church in the inner city Bangkok. De need to go to their book store and pick up Christian Edu. Book for her class that she is going to be teaching. It was amazing when we pulled up because it seem not to be a church that you would see in the States but it was Beautiful. As we where in the store, i was look around waiting for De to find her book, and i FOUND my books for school, all the books that i have used for class like Biblical Preaching in Thai, and Pentecostal Movement Reference Book YEP you know what i am talking about.. that BIG BIG book that you have to read for AG doctrine and History. It was amazing to see a lot of my book that my professor use in the State being used in a Christian book store.. it just amazes me that people that just go to church what to study the same thing that i go to class for. As we were there the pastor of the church came into the store. He is close to De so he started to talk to her, De introduced me to him and he know amazing English and was talking to me. De asked him about the Christian Edu. books in the store and wish there for more on the Bible studies. The pastor agreed that today in Thailand so many church teach just on application of the word, and not just on the word. The church are cutting sunday school(the teaching of the Bible and the Story in it) and they are adding cell groups. He believes cell groups are good but they just teach in the home what the pastor talked about on sunday. He believe this is really good, but there needs to be a place where the Word is being told. Meaning a place were kids, youth, and adults are learning the Bible( the stories and herm. of the Bible). The pastor said something so profound to me. People know the Word but they don't know the Bible. This seems to be the reality of today church everywhere. They take on the job for being the word to people lives but when asked what story in the bible apply to it, people find their self dumb founded. This intrigued me to think about the churches in the state. We are going through the same thing. I love the way that we are teaching and then applying what we learned in church into our lives and being in a cell group( small group) that bring people into the home to meet and apply. But most church that i have been at or worked out.. Sunday School is gone. This needs to be changed. "There need to be a balance De" just said in Thai in the class that she is teaching right now. There needs to be one, if there is no balance, there the scale with tip. We need the cell groups but we also need the Sunday School Teaching. If you look in the teaching for Jesus, Jesus taught on application, but he also taught history of the world. I always really wonder if Jesus believed in studying the word of the history. I believe he did. Back to this balance, the church needs it. They need to be able to meet and study the word like the past christian did, but also apply application like the new generation. You ask me what i believe Cell Group or Sunday School, I would say both. We really need both, i feel once we have both and really apply everything and understand the word, i feel that our church will be forming more well around Christian. What Do You Think....? write back to me on this or on "face-book"... I really want to hear people opinion on this subject. 

One Week with the Thai people

So it have been a week that i have been here and it been the most amazing experience. All most un- believable to me that i am here, working with one of the best missionary in the world. De has been amazing. In answering all my question and teaching me Thai as much as i could remember. I say that i am understanding it better and better. It is not a unknown langauge to me. I love hearing it now. It is weird now for me every night to hear English more. De has taught me a lot about the field. It is like being a pastor and missionary at the same time. She does so much in this Thai town that i dont think that her shoes can ever be filled by anyone. Other thing that i found out that is different then i thought before i came here was that your team is important to understand each other and have fun with each other because not having one you feel lost, but if you have a team with you, everyone is going through the same thing that you are going through or went through. De is a good example of this because as new people come around she is the one that helps them understand Thai food, place, and people till they can finish language school. She really has helped me understand what i am going to be doing on the field. Because it is not all standing on a street counter and preaching.. it is getting to knew the culture and understand what they need. Also this help from relationship with people that you might need to use in the future. She made close friend with pastor in the area that work with her, but relationship with the locate people around the office area is something that she has a A plus on. There is so much you can say about this field but De is the one that understand the in;s and out;s she is amazing. Being here for 7 years she is really a Thai people just like Hudson Taylor. Passion is what she has and passion is something that she has for kids and kids program, and through her passion my passion is growing for what i really want to do. De has shown me relationship, but also that a relationship with someone that might be your life parent is something that you dont have to have. We talked about relationships today on the field but off the field, and you know if i dont have someone to be with when i get on the field you know i am ok with that because God has a plan. Deanna said that her mother told her that if God wants you to have someone he will bring you one, but it is his timing.. De has became a great friend and i cant wait to work with her this next months before i leave... 

Temple day and Fun night

SO.. aa today was amazing. I woke up and meet up with the team of Book of Hope and went to do some of the tourist things. We went to the Temples in the Grand Palace area and the Laying Down Buda. It was amazing. So beautiful. Before we did anything first we had to get a taxi to get there and that was a mess.. the team got split up because we had to take two taxi, my taxi got there to the temple, but the taxi dropped the team off about a mile or two away from the temple were the rest of the team was. So they had to walk and we waited. As i waited the people all around me,, alot of them were talking in all different language. I whispered to ashley a team leader for the Hope team, this must have been what it sounded the day at Pentecost. It was amazing how many people were there. It was crazy. I got bored of waiting so i cross the street and was looking at all the market items.. there was alot to buy for cheap 10 bt for alot of the stuff so i got my first things from Thailand they are really pretty. Then i had my first experience with being bon dared be people wanting me to buy something. This guy wanted me to buy a piece of cloth. first it was lol 500 bt for one and then i was like NO thank you and then he was like oooo ok 5 for 500 bt i was like no thank you and he was like OOO you are a tuff one..Ok 8 for 500 bt i was no i am not buy anything like that... he was like ok ok i like you 10 for 500 bt i was like wow that is good but no thank you.. he was like ok ok 1 for 100 bt.. AAAA i was like NO thank you and across the street lol. It was fun seeing how low he would go but it was enough for me.. So after that.. the team was finally there. so we went on our way.. to see the laying down Buda.

 it was SO SO BIG.. beautiful but HUGE.. i like looking at it because i was like wow people really love him. after taking a lot of picture we left got some fruit at a stand and then went to buy more stuff. i love the people here.. they are so nice.. i wanted to buy string to put up my hair and i asked this guy how much for the string he was like i buy for you.. he gave it to me.. they are so nice. After being bon bared by the same group of people again. we went into the Grand Temple area. And that was amazing to see. There was these really big Building made for the past kings and queens. They put their bones in them and the smaller buildings around them are the place they put the Buddhist monks in. The other big thing at the temple area was the Emerald temple. This place is really secret for the people in thailand. So i was not able to take a picture in it.. I got yelled at a little because i took out my camera to take a picture..OPPS. The rest of the place was beautiful. One thing that i found funny was that they had the like little patches of grass everywhere with a tree in it and it was a sign saying Stay off Lawn. I laughed because it was smaller then a black board and it was a lawn haha.. 

 After seeing all of it.  we went back to the hotel and i take a taxi back to De house. Later on that night, we went to a small group thing with all the missionaries that 

young in the area. That was so much fun, Thai food

 and games.. we played this one game called Emperor. It was so much fun, I will play it with some people at school it will be so much fun. So it was a good day.. but my picture at the end of 

day is what made me happy. I will always remember the day that i went, and i can remember the look forever. 

Normal Day in the Office in Thailand

Good Morning to early, Abbey

It is monday morning and last night i was not really able to go to sleep so i stood up till 1am yeah for a girl that is having bad jetlag this is not a good thing to do. So after falling asleep, i woke up at 6 thinking that De told me that we are going to be leaving to pick up Ami at 715. So i was up and ready for the day. This is the story of Good Morning to Early, Abbey. Abbey got up at 6am to get ready for the day, she was rushing around because she thought that she was going to be late. She had a small breakfast, didnt do that much with her hair, and could not find some good to wear, but she was ready at 7 to leave. 715 came around De is still in her room, O she thought to herself maybe De told me 7:45 to leave. So she read her Bible, finish fixing her hair. And was ready for 7:45. She went out of her room and waited for De. De was still in her room, so abbey waited it 8 and then went back in her room saying Maybe it was 830? So she went back to her room wrote some emails and then went back out at 830. At 830 DE came out of her room.. But... she was still in her PJs? She said sorry we were not able to leave at 845. We will leave her around 9. AAAAAAA it was 845 that she waited me ready. ok. SO i was ready and ready to start the day.. But the rest of the day I was sososoosos tired. Haha That is why Good Morning to Early, Abbey is the story of my life right now. HAHHA... 

Ok so back to my story in Thailand

After leaving the house to go pick up Ami. Ami is a thailand teenager that worked with De when she first came here. Ami found someone that is going to sell us kids toys for Wednesday night cell group for Cheap which is really good for the field. Ami has a little boy name in English Timothy but in thai is is Nu Tim-o(high)-tee(long)( o everything in Thai is tonal so long and high words) but for short they call him Motie. He was borning in December so he is still young but so cute.

Ami, Motie, and Ami's Mother Pe Gerina were all waiting for us at the little store near the office. Me and De when up to the office to get stuff for the day and then came down.. We got some thing from this little lady on the street. it was call sateraler or something like that... it was good. it was a bannanna wrapped in sticky rice that was heated. Really good to eat. they whole thing was wrapped in a bannana leaf. Good thing to try here. So we got the Family and got in the car, but Ami called the lady and she was not ready, so me and De went to the office and did office work. I started to put the books together for the first Thai translated Sunday School Book that has been passed from culture to culture and translated and sent out in that culture. So it was cool that i was the one that got them together ask taking a WHOLE YEAR to translate it. After a call from the lady, we left. We then fellow the lady to her house, where her house was a storage for all the toy, You ready could not go in it because there was box, bag, and toy everywhere. So i stayed outside with Moti for most of the time, holding him and watching the kittens play. After we buy ALOT.. the lady buy us some Pepsis from a vender on the road, guess what it was in, A BAG it was amazing. Drinking Soda from a bag that you can carry, there was a straw to drink with but i loved it. Haha. When we were coming back Ami want to learn to speak English so that me and her can talk, so she taught me color at the same time i taught her color. Red is dang ahaha. Faa(high tone) is Blue. DUnii is Black. I love learning more of Thai. The rest of the day we were in the office and then went to the mall to wash the car and get food for the night( food store in the MALL). Came back here and made SlippyJoes, and i was way to tired to stay up so i went to bed early. GoodNight to early, Abbey is another story. haha

Today i am going to the Temples with the Book of Hope team because De needs to stay here and get her reports done for the AG. so instead of sitting here all day i am going to go have fun... Tell you about everything tonight

Sunday in the Kids Thai Church and Back to the SLums

Wow what a day today. Church was so much fun with the kids . I found out today that even the thai kids love Jesus your my superhero by hillsong. they sang it in English so i was able to sing and do the motions with them. it was a lot of fun for me.. it reminded me so much of home and waterworks. But today i def felt the call for little babies, it is hard to explain but i know that i want to work with new borns till 4 on the missions field for the rest of my life. But anywho. It was cool to be in the Thai kids service. One little girl openned up to me so much. She came up to me laughing and then asks De how to say: How are you in English? Then she repent it to me. I laughed and then asked De, Good how about you? It was a good moment for me. Her name was Pure in American but she was such a sweet soul to everyone

Kids church was def good the works are good with the kids to the point that De doesnt really have to be there helpin out. They played a bunch of games that i am going to us for the state when i get back it is going to be fun. Afterward, it is a tradition in most Thai Churchs that they will have Lunch. So we had more amazing Thai food. I had this one fruit called Ngaw. 

 good, so much that me and De stopped i saw them and got like 5kilo wrath. it was so good. After going to the store we went home i tried to sleep but i could not. So at 5pm we went back to the Slums and I taught one group of kids English Shapes. It was fun because De was not there to help me translate. But Num was there a student from the Bible college but english is bad so he did most of the talking i did more of the teaching. When i was there, the kids gave me a Nickman. They named me Powoo Shine i was not sure at first why, but after talking to one of the kids he pointed at my earrings. lol Because the time that they were coming up with a name, my earring were sun was shinning over my earring giving it a little shine light on their face. These kids were like amazing with Shapes they were so really to learn. BUT i can tell you that Name is going to keep with me.. each group that i went after that called me Shine. Powoo. That was so special for me.. i felt more open to them after.  After slum there we went to slum that we did yesturday. it was fun because the kids knew me more then yesturday. They were telling me before the lesson how to play this one game that i show them playing yesturday but i was not sure how to play it throu. So one of the kids try to show me, and then i got it. It is called something like Clay Slam.. it is when u slam a big piece on the floor and then you take two smaller piece and you have to get your piece of clay the closes to the big clay. It was fun to play wit them.. HAHa.. ooo jet lag is so much better NO NAP today i felt like it but i could get myself to sleep at 3 so i stay up and now it is 12 and i am not that tired.. but i am going to sleep now.. 

Tomorrow is going to a little short day we are just driving a hour or two out of BKK to get toys for the kids and shop around with the mother of the little baby up on the top of the page. it is going to be fun. and then tuesday i am going with the Book of Hope Team here to see the Temple because De has a lot of paper to do... so blog tomorrow sometime... NIGHT

Thailand and the Kids

Yesturday was a great day in Bangkok for me. Deanna and a couple of the helps and I went down to the Slums area of Bangkok and taught children in that area a lesson and played with them. It was a lot of fun working with them. It was funny because they all were trying to talk to me in Thai thinking that i understood them. it was cute, because they were learning English as well as i was learning Thai. We played this one game call 7up one of the games i play with my kids in America and what you have to do is count to 7 and when it is 7 you put your hand on your head but during the 1,2,3,4,5,6 you point with your arm in the direction you want it to go. So we were playing it and before i was learning the numbers i know most of them but i say them in a different tone. so the kids were laughing lol it made me laugh because i knew i was saying it wrong but it was still fun because the would make the direction go to me all the time to hear me say it wrong lol. after all the games and fun i taught the lesson. it was a little hard to teach because Deanna had to intrupt for me after every sentence so for me i kept forgetting where i was at in my lesson lol. it was still fun and i think that deanna interpt is better then i said it so i am good lol. it was fun playing with them afterwards. after the first slum we went to the other side of town. this was what you can call THE SLUM. the kids were amazing but living in poor conditions. One little boy was getting sick and we prayed for him but you can tell that sickness is hard for a little kid like him. We got the kids together and taught the lesson it was fun with this group of kids because they were so much younger. After the lesson, we went back to the car and there was people wanting to talk to Deanna, she have alot of what you can say PR with the people there which is good. She told me that most of the Adult Christians live there. It was nice talking to them. One lady spoke English so she talked to me for a little asked my age and then told me i was cute. Saying Thank You. After talking, Deanna and the team went to a really Thai Resturant. IT was Spicy but so good. I love the stick rice, it really fills you up alot. and we had this pork/herb thing. i was trying to remember the names but it was to hard.lloll. One thing i did like alot was this dessert call Kunna, i think, but it is a sweet dessert, this one was made with coccunts and with different fruit that i never had inside a chilled milk it was really good i want more. lol. It was a good time the two other works were teaching me some Thai and i was getting it but it was funny for them to see me try lol. Afterwards me and De went back to the apartment and relax and get things ready for Sunday Night in the Slums that is English night i am going to be teaching one of the group with Num (the bible school student) we are going to teach them shapes. I hope that i can do it. it is going to be hard without De there to interpt but i think that i can do it. Pray for me on that because it might be fursting for me and them but i know through God i can. O the sleeping thing. Much better i am sleeping through the night now and waking up a little bit before 6 so that is not bad.... I hope that you like the pictures of the kids... check my facebook for more.

So it been a long first day. after waking up so early my body crash so early. It was really cool today meeting new people and trying to get the Wai right ( greeting were you put your hands together up to your face and bow a little) lol it was funny because i think that every time i would raise my hand to Wai my hands were full with stuff, so i improved alot with it by bowing a little and trying to being my hands up. But every-time you Wai girls has to say Swee-dee-kaa which is thanks and hello is gets confusing for me.. but i might just have it wrong.. i will learn. Me and Deanna went to see the Bob and Joyce Ebolings they were missionaries to Viatam but they are retiring this year.. i remember them when i was really little they came to my church. It was alot of fun talking to them, great wisdom. But Mom if you are reading this they told me that they said HI and that they might visit NY sometime. After meeting them, we meet up with some people that are running the team of Book of Hope people, they are one amazing couple really loving everything around them they might be here as the new MA next year, but we all went to this little food shop on the side of the office building that AG is in. It was really good RICE, wow food here is amazing but i can feel it a little hitting my stomach. but i should be fine. After lunch we went a Book of Hope Meeting for all the new people that come here to help. it was really good to learn new things about the land and all.. Most of the Religions things i knew from my World Religion Class. YES... my prof. Dr. Samuel hard to learn from but amazing teaching in the end. i didn't realize how much i learned from him in that one semester. Any who, we were there of a little and then we went home for a hour.. I NEED to SLEEP for a little. only hour because we were going to meet up with some single missionary women for food.. and guess where i went.. YEP.. and MEXICAN restaurant.. crazy right. but it was amazing food.. to get there we take Sky-bus. it is like the subway but a little different it is like above the city. it was fun to see all the people just squeeze in them. Other then that.. meeting people was the big thing today Name slip my mind a lot but differently this is going to be a great time here.. i just wish i knew more thai... O well many i will be a expert at this at the end of my time here..

well i am going to bed night everyone

BANGKOK. I AM HERE

It is amazing here cant i start with that. First off, everything is tall here, and second thing.. aa we are driving on the wrong side of the road, what that is the Left side. Yep, driver warn it is on the Left side of the road. I like it is away that you drive, seem smoother in cutting throw traffic. Everything is pretty tall here, what i said that already but it is true you look at the window and it is beautiful. The place that i am staying at is tall to. Funny story last night, me and De where coming to the apartment and there is a guard that opens the gate at night. So De was like we are going to play a game and try to get in there without waking him up. Lol it was funny seeing De open the gate and drive throw and he still didn't wake up. We think that we saw us drive through and didn't wake up because he was embarrassed lol. We got up in the apartment and i meet a couple new faces. jamie De roommate and her Mother that is staying till Sunday and then my roommate who is a missionary in Vietnam. It is so much fun being around people that have similar passions like you. Once i was in the apartment,,,, SHOWER. it was nice getting all that grim off me. Sleep was great too other then i could not wait to wake up and look outside my window and really see Bangkok. AND wow.... it is amazing. Right now... I am sitting here listening to Hillsong and just being in the presents of God it really nice to be quite.........

I was reading the Psalms today and it just made this day just start prefect. 

Third Leg of the Trip: Stuck in the Middle...

Already it seems like I am emergeing in a different culture as everyone around me is either from japan or hongkong there is so many people going to be on this plane I wonder how this is going to worl. So I figure it out this is a double plane.. MY FIRST ONE..so I was sitting with a little girl from theDET area that was going to Tokyo to see her gradmam it was nice to talk to her for the time I had but a lady switched with her to be with her dad it was really nice of her. Later I found out that she ids from japen but her husband works with Toyda cars in Indianan and she is going out to she her family and next time leaving her daughter that growup in Japen but moved to Indiana didn’t like the schools here so she moved back to Japen.  So I figure something else out, I am going to be written in this also because no one really speaks English around me… It is ok but writing wourl be good for me. I know how it is now for a forgien person to be in America It must be hard sitting in sileces right now I am sit next toguy from Gua.. we talked for a little after the flight was almost done.. but he looked like a ruff man that has been everywhere she looks like a well dress high fasion women, but I am stuck in the middle. And the middle I am right now from American Culture to Asia culture.. it is soething that Professor Jenny Duncan talked about in Intercutltral communication. The culture stock is starts with a different language. First on the mototor as they are speacking American, japenes, Chinesses and Korean. NO ES lol nope we are going to Asia hear we go

Second Leg of the Trip

It is always sunny on the other side of the clouds. From up here all stress of the traffic and life is gone. It is just amazing to me that we as human beings can be so high in the air . Looking at the world not around us but under us. Being up here reminds me of the sang that PG uses to sing. The sun is shining the sky is blue, I love Jesus and I love You, It’s a good day great day for prasing the lord.. and being up here it is so true

Wow it is so true with everything that has been happening in my life this just seems to me to be the starting point in life unknown and I cant wait for the next moment….

The Airport...SYR first leg

It is 10:48 and i am here at Gate 14 waiting for my plane to board at 12:37.. Flight3405. I am sitting here on the floor of the airport listening to the New Coldplay Cd Viva La Vida. I was amazed how quick i went through all the lines to get to this point in my journey. My parent dropped me off at 10:30 so it took me 15mins to get through everything. All the FSA were really nice, the guy that took my luggage asked me what BKK was? i said Bangkok Thailand. He was like wow that cool. why are you going there, i told him for a mission internship. He was a little like shocked of what i said. He said he didnt think that people still did that. I laughed and said yeah most of my school does. He said that is cool said I hope that you have great reading material i was like Yep.. lol. The reading material is the book that i NEED to read for my internship. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I am really excited to read it( thanks Mom for the book). Yeah my parents seem ok today. Most of the time we they dropped me off at the airport they would cry and hug me till i could not breath. This time they seem like ok with everything, maybe it is the peace that i have been praying about for them in letting me go, or could be that they are ready for their little girl to leave the nest. Who Knows. I can tell you that it final set in. It is all the excitement, nerves, and just pure joy to be going on this trip right now. I was just thinking about what the FSA person said to me, I didnt know that people still did that. This is a great opportunity to be here right now and go overseas so one main goal to find God, but also to show God to others.. i cant wait till i am there.. ..... .. ... .......

First one.. but first bed time

HI... First one.. the night before... I am leaving tomorrow.. to land in Bangkok at 12am in the morning on thursday... a whole day in the air.. aaaaaaa. it is ok. because i am ready.. 

tomorrow with be the true test of this girl..

and i cant wait