“Do they wear uniforms at the school?” asked Jane.

“Do they have pandas there? I like pandas,” said Emily.

The third graders were answering my request for questions for us to answer in our presentation to their school about our going to Thailand. Earlier that week, I was struggling with getting it written.

“What do I put in this that will interest them as well as inform them of how we believe God is leading us, “ I wondered. “And what pictures do I have to go along with it?”

Then the principal called to ask me to substitute in that class on Friday. I gladly took the opportunity and decided to ask those students for questions they might have. Helen and Chloe continued the theme of comparing the Thai school to theirs.

“Do they use slates with slate pencils? Do they have desks like ours?” they asked.

Their questions showed me they are interested in information that relates to their school experience. The pictures I have of the Ban San Faan classrooms should be good for that.

Then I remembered taking pictures of the Ban San Faan children playing a couple of games familiar to students here. Those also might spark interest.

(Here they are playing 4 posts the way children here play 4 corners. Sarah will choose a post number, without looking, and the children at that post will be "out")

The class showed interest in my comments about the Thai language, too. We were correcting run on sentences that day.

“A sentence is even more important in Thai because they don’t put spaces between their words, only between their sentences,” I told them. Then they wanted a demonstration. Later, they paid close attention when I taught them how to count in Thai with Thai numbers. Amy’s request to see some Thai writing related to this interest. Roman tied his language curiosity with his courtesy when he asked for the Thai words for “Thank you”.

Thomas didn’t make a request, but he showed his interest by drawing my head on a dollar bill. It’s an amazing likeness, don’t you think? (I did have my hair up that day and my nose is almost non existent, isn't it?) I will include a little information about the Thai Baht for him. I’m sure he doesn’t know that they only put royalty on Thai money and high government officials on dollars. Then, again, I am a child of the King.

:J