Hey yall! This past week has been the most tiring of any, we have been teaching english at a church in the evenings, and teaching english in public schools for about 4 hours during the day. Its crazy. I was just talking to the main english teacher at the high school today and she asked if we had teaching training before; to which i said no. She was astonished that we didnt because we were i guess doing a good job... so thats good!
We are in the Northeast right now, and it it lots of fun. We sleep on little sheets of padding under pop-up mosquito nets (awesome). There are 7 inch long centipedes and millipedes; and we even saw a scorpion! haha. No worries though, it is fun.
Tomorrow is our last day of teaching, we are having a party during the evening teaching at church. then back to bangkok and heading state-side on monday. See you all soon!
-Matt, Amy, Hannah, Kayla, and Adam
Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Thailand 4
Well, it has been a good few days working at the well and doing different sight seeing stuff; we went to the beach at Pattaya yesterday.
Today we are heading to the Northeast to hang out at a church and a public school. There are 3 english classes, so two of us will be in two of the classes and one of us will be teaching a class by ourselves. Its going to be awesome! Im not going to update till the end now, i doubt there is internet up there.
Pray that our team gets plenty of rest and has good health, that has been a issue coming up the last few days. Word of advice: don't eat mcdonalds after a week and a half of all thai food.
Word!
- Matt and team
Today we are heading to the Northeast to hang out at a church and a public school. There are 3 english classes, so two of us will be in two of the classes and one of us will be teaching a class by ourselves. Its going to be awesome! Im not going to update till the end now, i doubt there is internet up there.
Pray that our team gets plenty of rest and has good health, that has been a issue coming up the last few days. Word of advice: don't eat mcdonalds after a week and a half of all thai food.
Word!
- Matt and team
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Thailand Post 3
Sup?!?!?!?
ok that was needless..
i hope everyone on the other trips are doing well.
The last couple of days we have been hanging out at a ministry called the well; it is a place where former prostitutes and those in danger can go and learn different skills and english in order to get good jobs and support their families.
There are a lot of rough stories with some of the girls where different things happen in their life like maybe their husband leaves them and they have to support their kids with no means to do so; then they end up going to the bars and making money that way.
rough.
But our team is doing well; tomorrow we are going to a beach somewhere, hopefully there will be more jellyfish.
Much Love.
-Matt (and the rest)
ok that was needless..
i hope everyone on the other trips are doing well.
The last couple of days we have been hanging out at a ministry called the well; it is a place where former prostitutes and those in danger can go and learn different skills and english in order to get good jobs and support their families.
There are a lot of rough stories with some of the girls where different things happen in their life like maybe their husband leaves them and they have to support their kids with no means to do so; then they end up going to the bars and making money that way.
rough.
But our team is doing well; tomorrow we are going to a beach somewhere, hopefully there will be more jellyfish.
Much Love.
-Matt (and the rest)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Thailand Post 2
Hello Everyone!
The trip is going great so far, we are now about a third of the way through it. Our team spent the last 5 days or so in the south of the country in a town called Takua Pa; it was hit pretty bad by the tsunami so we were helping out at a ministry there that was started up by a Thai man by the name of Pastor Wasan. They have planted a church there and it is doing pretty well. They are having a hard time getting support though for the ministry because the tsunami is now on the back of people's minds though it is still a thing that needs attention. There were 3 interns there, Eak, Jon and Om, they were pretty awesome; we had a lot of fun with them.
We spent most the time doing projects here and there for Pastor Wasan, and it was hard at times, but all-in-all it was pretty laid back because Thai culture does this wonderful thing where they work for a while, rest for a while, then maybe work again, or maybe just talk. :)
Last saturday we worked with kids, just hanging out and having fun with them; they were all so great and beautiful.
On sunday we hung out with the kids before church then had church with them and about 6 or 8 adults; as a team we shared our testimonies and played a couple of songs, it went really well for not really being planned all that extensively.
We went swimming in the Andaman sea and got a couple little stings from jellyfish, it was awesome!
We also went down to Phang nga bay which is one of the main tourist things, it was really pretty.
We hope that all of you are doing fine back home and we look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks.
Adios!
The trip is going great so far, we are now about a third of the way through it. Our team spent the last 5 days or so in the south of the country in a town called Takua Pa; it was hit pretty bad by the tsunami so we were helping out at a ministry there that was started up by a Thai man by the name of Pastor Wasan. They have planted a church there and it is doing pretty well. They are having a hard time getting support though for the ministry because the tsunami is now on the back of people's minds though it is still a thing that needs attention. There were 3 interns there, Eak, Jon and Om, they were pretty awesome; we had a lot of fun with them.
We spent most the time doing projects here and there for Pastor Wasan, and it was hard at times, but all-in-all it was pretty laid back because Thai culture does this wonderful thing where they work for a while, rest for a while, then maybe work again, or maybe just talk. :)
Last saturday we worked with kids, just hanging out and having fun with them; they were all so great and beautiful.
On sunday we hung out with the kids before church then had church with them and about 6 or 8 adults; as a team we shared our testimonies and played a couple of songs, it went really well for not really being planned all that extensively.
We went swimming in the Andaman sea and got a couple little stings from jellyfish, it was awesome!
We also went down to Phang nga bay which is one of the main tourist things, it was really pretty.
We hope that all of you are doing fine back home and we look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks.
Adios!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Thailand Post 1
What up Yall?
... I'm poetic with writing, i know.
All kidding aside, things are going great for us!
All of our flights (21 Hours worth) went off without a hitch, except when we got to Tokyo we had to fill out these crazy forms about the swine flu; and they gave us some sweet face masks. But, none of us has it, so thats a good thing i think.
We stayed at the Christian Missionary Alliance Guest House in Bangkok last night, and tonight we are heading to the south on a 12 hour bus ride; fun times are sure to ensue.
Thats about all i have to say... so, here is a random story:
Once upon a time, i forgot my bag with deoderant, toothpaste and toothbrush and so i was either going to be really dirty or get random things from airports. First, i bought a pink toothbrush and toothpaste from the Tokyo airport... i have no idea what the flavor is, but it says "lion" on the front so i call it lion flavor. And i went to a Thai version of Wal-Mart called "Big-C" and bought deoderant... good times, i know.
Thanks for listening, we are all fine, and you will be hearing more from us.
Sincerely,
Matt (and the rest of the team)
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