Bangkok baby!!
welcome to our blog :-)
the team have arrived and are settling in well in the OMF house in Bangkok. yesterday we had some orientation and some language lessons...which were very interesting! unfortunately none of us showed a natural abitlity for thai, but we have managed to learn some basics like hello and thankyou. pray that we will retain what we have learnt and that we will learn some more as we go along. we would love our communication with the students in Phitsanulok to be more than just hello and thankyou!
today we explored a little of Bangkok, to see some of the Thai culture in real life. we went to the grand palace, which i thought was awesome but some others thought was a bit over-decorated...every square metre was either covered in gold paint or mosaic! it was clear here, and also while driving around the neighbourhood and the city, how important religion is in the Thai life. pray that we will be able to bring some of the true light of Jesus into these dark places.
thats all for now...we move to Phitsanulok tomorrow!
Sarah, Toby, Rob, Claire, Ellie, James and Cathy.
Sarah, Ellie, Toby, Rob, James, Claire and Cathy.
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Party Time
This morning the team went to church in Phitsanulok. Sarah, james, Rob and Toby went to a church very close to the university, while Ellie, Claire and myself went to another church in the town centre (where we delighted them with our singing abilities....). Both churches had about thirty members, the church that we went to has recently swollen in numbers with abut 10 new believers coming a...
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Phitsanulok here we come
Yesterday we left Bangkok and travelled to Phitsanulok, which will be our base for the next few weeks. We met the lovely Julia, who we will be working with. Julia runs the Youth House for the students where we will be working. Phitsanulok is very cool, we are staying just outside the university campus, which is nearly a seperate town in itself. there are millions of food stalls (none of th...
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Week Three :)
we have had a very busy week here in Phitsanulok. we have been teaching english in the university, playing hockey with the students on campus and preparing for camp.
most of the time the weather here is fantastic, however some of our planned events were affected by heavy rain this week (it is the rainy season in thailand!), so we had planned to do some open air stuff at the night ma... -
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FREE!
God really blessed our time at camp, we all had a truly fantastic (if crazy) weekend!
6am starts, with our lovely friend Tan blowing the whistle right outside our door....!! 6am is not a time that should ever be seen by anyone!
each day was packed with activities, music, games, madness...all of which were great fun and helped us get to know more students from all over central... -
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Goodbye Phitsanulok :(
today we left phitsanulok for bangkok, to start our journey home... there were more than a few tears fell this morning, it was so sad leaving all the friends that we have made these last few weeks.
all day yesterday students were calling in at the youth house and giving us little goodbye presents and cards. it was so kind. last night we had a final dinner with almost all of the...