Rice Grains

This morning I went to The Promise Baptist Church to watch English camp in process. It is a 3-week program for children in the area. Since I have agreed to teach an English class at this church plus another class at The Shelter, the home for guys in drug rehab, I want to get some idea of what happens. Of course, in the process of going to "watch", I ususally get roped into helping in some form or other.:) But that's OK--it's good experience.

There are two classes running, one for younger children and one for somewhat older children with more English knowledge.

Two volunteers from Indonesia are team teaching the older class, a VERY energetic class! The woman in charge is Lee Davis, a lady who has many years of experience in teaching English.

Playing bingo using kinds of animals

A young gal from Australia helps with the younger class.

I ate lunch with the teachers at the church, then caught a bus to head back toward home. From the bus stop I began walking down the street, and met someone who wanted to take me back to their house so they could give me an address of someone they met 30 years ago in the US. He hopes I can locate this friend of his so he can once again be in touch with her. I think I'm stuck--don't expect to be able to find her for him...:)

Soon I needed to head to Bangkok for my language lesson at the Blue Danube Coffee Shop. I do really like my teacher; she is so patient and if we get off the subject she doesn't mind, because we are still practicing Thai.

Till my lesson was finished and I had stopped for a bite to eat, it was close to 8:00 PM. On the bus going home, I sat with an older woman who was all smiles, so I started a conversation with her by commenting on the number of packages she had to carry off the bus. Before I knew what was going on, she dug into the bottom of one bag and gave me a pack of something similar to Rama noodles! Not sure why she did that. Our conversation was quite interesting; I either didn't hear or didn't understand most of what she was saying, and I don't think she understood half of what I was trying to say to her, but we both did our share of smiling and nodding and "answering" each other with--I think--quite unrelated topics.:) Oh well, such is life in Thailand.

I must get some sleep. It's past bedtime now!