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!