Welcome to Nonthaburi...

Well, I'm back into the swing of things. I thought it would be tough going back to school after 3 weeks off but half way through Monday it almost felt like I had never left. Mike went home for the break so I got him to pick me up a copy of the "One Year Book of Family Devotions." So I use that for devotions in the morning. My homeroom students never seem to show any interest in anything or ask questions. At least I get to end most days on a positive note with the Grade 6's. Monday night I went to Post Café to write a letter and then read I Corinthians. I wanted to read the whole thing at once instead of a few chapters here or there. Otherwise I forget what the beginning was about before I got to the end. Back in the day I used to read from the Bible just because I thought I should, but it seemed like a lot of the time I just read the words without giving much thought to them. Now that I have to do devotions with my homeroom it has sparked my interest in the reading the Bible. It seems so much more interesting now, but the more I read the more questions I seem to have. I write down verses that don't really make sense to me, maybe someday I can get my dad's opinion on some of them. While I was sitting there some random lady came up to me and asked me if I spoke Thai. I told her I didn't adnd then she said something about seeing me often at Post Café. She asked if I had a phone and I said no and then she left. 5 minutes later she came back and said, "I come to tell you, welcome to Nonthaburi." I said thankyou and then she left. Tuesday night I went to The Mall Ngamwongwan to buy a cell phone (I've been thinking about getting one for awhile), but they were pricey and it was hard communicating with the sellers so I decided to forget that idea and go see a movie instead. I figure I only have 5 more months here and I've been managing without so far. I saw the movie "Doom" which originated as a computer game. Pretty entertaining, even if the plot and acting wasn't spectacular. Wednesday night we have Bible study. We watch videos from the Alpha series and then have a discussion after. Its kinda fun getting together with people with different backgrounds and from different places. Here we pretty much live with the same people we work with, so we see a lot of eachother. And we're basically the only farang people we have contact with (other than church on Sunday) so it makes for an interesting community. This evening I went to Post Café with Heidi to do some reading, then she headed back to go to an overnight camp meeting (overnight camp is next weekend :( ) . On my way out, some random creepy Thai guy asked me what I thought of Thai women. I told him they're ok and left before he could say much else. As I was leaving, bumped into Nathan and Tim who were just coming in. Nathan showed a place I could buy good chicken and then we took motorcycle taxis back to GES. On Saturday and Sunday there is some sort of private school showcase at the mall so we all had to sign up for a shift to be at the booth. Basically we're their show they can show off their farang teachers. So I have to be there 10-12 on Saturday morning.