Sawdee Ka!

Sawdee Ka!

I just wanted to inform you about something really cool that happened this week.

Last week I asked a teacher at Tessa Bann if we could go in one lunch a week to hang out with the kids. Yesterday we went for the first time, not knowing what to expect or if any kids would interact with us.

Josh, Joel and Imko started kicking a ball around on the football pitch, and slowly the kids joined in, until there was about 33 playing football! While us girles, started skipping and playing hopscoth which got Sai, L, Fern and Rung interested. We then proceed to draw on the playground with chalk which drew a bigger crowd, as people realized we where friendly. In total we interacted with roughly 75 kids! Awesome or what.

Yesterday night, Sam, Linda and I braved an oil massage; it was awesome. I am so getting into the spa thing, especially as it is so cheap. I will miss the spa dearly when I return to the western world. Life will not be the same.

As well as all the cool things happening at schools - we had a student come to Yes - a cell kind of thing the church puts on for young people, for the first time last week, and 2 students who did Blueprint at the University have come to a few events now. How amazing is God?

I am being blessed at the moment, by the opportunity to house sit for a Canadian family in the church - oh yeah!. What a blessing, internet, hot showers, air con and duvets in the bedroom, and a vast selection on dvds to watch. Let's not forget the washing machine and just somewhere that is home to someone, a real house, somewhere to go at the end of the work day. Yay for being able to drive in Thailand!

Canadian blessing all the way, as over the past 2 weeks the church has had a team visiting form Glad Tidings in Victoria. It has been really good to be able to chat to young people who are a similar age - and the fact they are from Canada means they had something going for them too! They had a dentist with the team who went around pulling out teeth, and last Friday I got to pick Dave, Andy and Sarah up from the Burmese school where they had been pulling teeth. well Josh and I thought we where doing them a favour, but we ended up getting taken out to Sizzlers - a steak house, with all you can eat salad and pasta bar, so I got to spend a few hours getting to know them better before ferrying them about some more. Free toothpaste and toothbrushes too, all very helpful. However when we asked Dave questions we where informed that a lot of stuff we thought we knew about cleaning our teeth we didn't, we also got to watch a very interesting flossing demo. I must say seeing some little boy's teeth being pulled out was not a highlight of last friday, as he choked twice on he blood as the tooth was difficult to get out.

This was supposed to be a short, sweet, snappy update but turned into rather along one. Hopefully my May newsletter will hold some interesting stories and events.

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Thanks for all your support and prayers

Rosie