The Last 24 Hours (plus)
Yesterday morning the church I visited included "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" as part of the worship songs.:) Hmmmm, really???:) As I looked more closely at the Thai characters, I realized that they had "spiritualized" the song, because I could see the word for "Jesus" included in the lyrics. The English translation on the overhead, however, was the song as we know it. Fun!
Last night I invited the REACH team over to see the area where I live. We visited one of my neighbors, who treated them all to a shaved ice treat complete with bread cubes, corn, kidney beans, sweet red syrup, and sweetened condensed milk. I think one person liked it pretty well; as for the others, they put a good face on it and ate it like troopers.
After that we bought food on my busy street corner and took it back to my apartment to eat.
After a fun evening of talking and playing Hearts, the REACHers headed home to Samrong. This morning, then, I met Brittany and Deanne in Samrong, where we boarded a bus and went to Abba House, the nursery school for slum children.
We also walked out back to see the slum.
From the slum we got back on the bus and went in to Bangkok to our respective language classes. I got home tonight in time to eat supper and wait for my friend Nui to come for English help. I was feeling tired, so it felt like a God thing when she called to cancel because she had to work late.
Tomorrow I go on a visa run to Cambodia; that will be an all day activity, but it should be relaxing.:)