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Thai Day One

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Woke up immediately first thing in the morning by my alarm. Actually surprised that I managed to fall asleep rather fast. Usually if there's some exciting thing that happens tomorrow I would find it difficult to catch some sleep.

Still in disbelief that we are flying heh. Just spent most of the time today travelling. Really interesting to see the clouds beneath you again. It's been awhile since I got that chance (Germany last May).

Reached Bangkok and we were met with two 'fans of Gladys'. They were holding up a sign that says Gladys (written on the back of their notes heh). One of them was in sawang last year if I'm not wrong and the other is just a friend tagging along. Which is amazing if you think about it. She only knows Gladys through her friend and yet she is willing to come meet us in Bangkok.

Arrived in sawang airport and we met our translator, aunt Nara who has this cool English accent. American accent I suppose? Bynes' luggage was vibrating throughout the whole journey and was even stopped at Bangkok (but somehow Janice managed to trick her thinking that the sound was coming from somewhere else) and turns out it was Bynes' electric shaver heh. Travelling tip : remove batteries from appliances before packing them. Met the pastor (I have no idea how to spell) and we drove off to the church.

Amazing to see the scenery of the countryside. And to also take in all the smells of the sugarcane and the food from the roadside stalls! It seems that primary (or secondary?) students are able to ride motorcycles already (maybe it's not legal?).

Dropped off our belongings and then went off again to the supermart to get stuff we need for the classes tomorrow. Everything is so cheap! Brought a lot of snacks/sweets for the classes. It's always amazing to go to another country's supermart to see the different variety of stuff they sell, especially cup noodles.

Went to eat dinner after that with the Thai people and it was interesting to see that even with the language barrier, there are some common topics (like Korean dramas and superstars apparently) that we share. The food was delicious but most of them were really spicy. Many levels above mcspicy in my opinion but it was good. As they say in Thai 'aroy mak mak'.

Returned back to the church where we are staying and had a devotion and briefing. And then it's off to bed. At this point I still had some concerns and worries but after praying, these were just lifted away. Had to make last minute changes as we found out that the time for lessons is shortened and we had to cut off some activity. Slept almost immediately upon hitting the bed.

Realise that we may say it's easy to find 10000 reasons to praise/bless The Lord when asked but sometimes I do struggle to think of one reason.

#5 : for the friendly and hospitality from the Thai people!

#6: for the amazing genuine Thai food! Amazing that there are so many different types of cuisine in this world. The legendary status of the food here as told by the previous team still holds.

#7: God for bringing us safely here in Thailand as we travel.

(Prolly missed something out cause this was written on the second day)

@ 7:38 pm