Getting used to...

Cars on “wrong” (left) side of the road. Drivers on “wrong” (right) side of vehicles.

Rough side walks – sometimes none, sometimes wide, often used by street vendors or adjacent property owner.

Signs, magazines, books all in Thai – and some in a different script than the one I learned.

Avoiding dog poop – regularly along the side of the road

Where things are – the way to get places and get “home”

Hard mattresses – how to make them softer?

Putting insect repellent on regularly – it’s my new body spray!

Bug bites – about 10 each round– Round 1 - 1^st day, on calves, – Round 2 - 3^rd day, on feet & ankles, round 3 – 5^th day, on back, overdue for round 4, thankfully!

Taking an umbrella,

for the SUN!

“Deer crossing” cross walks – warning drivers that people might try to cross there.

“Suggested” red lights and turn lanes – not everyone stops at them or turns when in them.

Carrying cash and in small bills or change – to pay TukTuks Song Taus, or street or market vendors.

Unexpected friendly "people" at unexpected events. We didn't know it was children's day when we went to the biggest mall in town!

:J

Two Presentations

We did two presentations this week! One was at Three Rivers Christian school and the other at East Kelso Baptist Church. It meant most of time I was home this week I was working on Power Point or our script. We are thankful that they both were well received.

Thursday afternoon, the children at Three Rivers listened and watched well.

They gave a big “Awww” at the picture of the baby panda in the Chiangmai zoo. They counted well with me in Thai, and, when we asked for questions near the end, most of their hands went up. They asked good questions too. We told them they could help in our sowing the work efforts by communicating and sharing events between their school and the schools in Chiangmai. The students and teachers showed some enthusiasm for doing this. I hope we can keep some interest up for that during our four months of language training.

Sunday morning we visited the church our daughter, Amanda, has had so much involvement with, East Kelso Baptist Church. Ken and Karen and their family go there also. We really appreciate their focus on prayer. After our presentation, their prayer coordinator came to me to finish writing down all the prayer requests we gave in our talk. She also wanted to make sure we had her email address so we can send our prayer letters to her for resending to the congregation. We thank God for putting this connection together for us so we might have this prayer support behind us.