Rice Grains

Today I met Michelle at a Thai church in Bankok. This church is another church that has English translation via headphones, so I decided to take advantage of that today. Sometimes I like to try to figure out what I can with no translation, though so far, when I try that, I get virtually nothing out of the service, just a word here and there. I like the feel of this church, but there are several others I would like to try out yet as well.

After the service, Michelle and I ate lunch at a little restaurant in a hotel on one of the quieter streets in
Bangkok. The hotel has an older feel to it, and Michelle and I chose a booth that sat up rather high. In fact our legs dangled. Michelle decided to take a picture of the booth with me as the subject (oh my, what a sad choice!:). Below is that picture--sorry you have to bear with another pose of yours truly!:)

When I got back to my apartment, Jack and Noy, the owner and his wife, came out to say hi. So we tried to speak Thai, and they told me I am "doing well" at learning (all the Thai people say that if you can say one or two things in Thai:). But it did feel good to recognize progress from zero on day one to knowing a few words to carry on a tiny conversation 5 months later.:)

Then, when I got to my room, I looked at my phone, which I had put on "silent" mode for church, and discovered I had something like 8 missed calls--all from two Thai friends. I was unable to get ahold of Dang, the woman who gave me the shirt; but I did get to talk to Aoo. She is a girl that I met early on, but we have not been in contact for the past 2 months, so I was excited to hear from her again.

Conversations with Thai people are always a bit interesting because of the language barrier. But we stumble along and can usually carry on a conversation of sorts by using English and Thai together.

Now it is about bedtime; I will try to go early to be ready for another week of language study. :)