Miss Thailand

There is a nail academy on the 2nd floor of our hotel, and Miss Thailand (the runner up) was shooting a commercial there! Usually Thai people can speak a few words in English but she couldn't speak any, but it was still fun meeting her!

Teaching at Santisuk

The bus we ride to school everyday

Our students (Left to Right: Me, Tid, Pong, Muay, Noy, Mom, Wan)

My friend hope came to visit me form China!

Muay, Tid, Pong, Wan, Noy with the cat balloons I made them (: They loved them! haha

We have begun our teaching at Santisuk English School. My dad has his own classes, and my mom and I share a class. Every morning from Monday to Thursday we wake up at 5:30am and leave at 6:30am to get to our class which starts at 7:00am and goes till 9:00am. The hardest part about teaching is getting up so early! My dad has two classes, one from 7-9am and another from 10-12am. In me and my moms class we have 5 students, and my dad has 6 students in each of his classes. I really enjoy our class, all of our students are so friendly and they like to call me their little sister! The ages of our class range from 19-47 and they are all girls. Their names are Pong, Tid, Muay, and Wan. These are just their nicknames because their real names are way too hard to pronounce! One of our students named Yok had to quit the class because she came down with H1N1 and is in the hospital. Please pray for her! While my dad has his second class I do my schoolwork. Often our students like to show us around and take us different places, markets especially. We also like to play games with them: Phase 10, Dominos, Thai Monopoly, etc. I am trying to learn some Thai also in my lessons. Tid says she would like to be my Thai teacher and she tries to teach me some things in Thai.

Hopping around Thailand

Since we've been traveling around the past few days and have not have wifi, I haven't been able to update my blog, but now I can! 

Since  being in Chiangmai, we have traveled to Phuket and are now back in Bangkok.

In Phuket, we relaxed for 5 days enjoying the beaches and swimming in the ocean before we began working in Bangkok. We also met our mission team in Phuket, and with them we did a couple tourist things (canoeing, boat ride, monkey show,and an  elephant show and ride). 

We noticed in Phuket the prices were A LOT more expensive then any place we have been here in Thailand. We figured it was a tourist trap because no Thai person would ever pay the prices, and we tried to find places that locals ate at. The prices weren't high in American standards, but they are ridiculous here!

 Something bad happened while we were walking on the street. We had just begun crossing a road when my dad suddenly yelled, "OW OW OW OW!!" My mom who was ahead dashed back and I (from behind) was quickly by his side. I thought he had twisted his ankle when stepping of the curb, but he lifted his foot and there was a metal wire stocked through his shoe and into his foot! He pulled out the wire and blood oozed out of his shoe. A man in a shop nearby saw what happened and hurried over and pointed to a hose, and my dad hobbled over to it and rinsed his foot off. The man was determined to help and tried to help by getting a rag and holding it on his foot. I started freaking out as my dad wearily breathed, "I have to sit down I'm going to pass out." The man didn't understand and continued to hold his foot, but we finally got him to stop so my dad could lay on the sidewalk (next to a dead cockroach). The man ran back to his shop and got a bandaid for my dads foot as he lay on the sidewalk. Another man on a motorcycle stopped when he saw my dad and asked what was wrong. We told him and he went back to his apartment and got his phone so we could call our taxi to bring us back to our resort. My dads foot was sore the day after, but he is all better now. Thanking God!

Now we are in Bangkok and starting to learn about how to teach the Thai people English at Santisuk School, which we will be doing for the next month. I will be helping too!