Tonight was so extremely fun!! I laughed so hard tears were streaming down my face! I'm keeping my English lessons simple this week and playing more games. The children are finishing up their term and taking final exams. Next week starts "winter" break. They just call it a break in between terms but I'll call it winter break :) It lasts for one month. So I also get a one month break. Not from teaching entirely though just from teaching in the Huai Bong School. I'll still be teaching at the orphanage every night. Anyways, tonight I taught about the four seasons. It's difficult to explain Autumn to them because in Thailand there are only 3 seasons. They have the cold season (we refer to this as winter), the hot season (we refer to this as summer), and the rainy season (do we have this in Arizona??? I'm guessing this would be like our spring and autumn combined). So I taught about the seasons and what each one of them is like. Then I had the children get into groups and they had to write clothing items that they would wear in each season. I had already taught a lesson on clothes so this was review. When I began the lesson, I walked into the room with a jacket, scarf, gloves, and beanie on and asked the children which season they thought I was dressed for. I could see them all get excited and engaged in the lesson as I walked out looking ever so silly (dressed in winter clothes when it was really hot outside). After they brainstormed clothes that they would wear in each group we discussed it all as a group. Then we played two games. The first game one child from each group had to run up to the board and the first one who spelt the item of clothing I said got a point for their team. You should hear them cheering for each other, it's awesome! They all raced quickly to get a point for their team, but team Nemo took first place, team Minnie Mouse took second place and team Spiderman, well came in last place and only got one point. It was a sad day for Spiderman :) After this game, I had one more game planned. I had packed a pillowcase full of some of my clothing items that would be worn in each of the seasons. It was packed with everything from socks, long johns, shorts, and t-shirts, to my bathing suit. We picked 10 children to sit in the center of our circle that contained my 80+ students. They had to pass the pillowcase full of clothes around until the music stopped. When the music stopped whoever had the pillowcase had to stick their hand in without looking and pull one item out. Whatever item they took out they had to put on. God definitely wanted to bring me joy tonight, because it worked out perfectly who put on each item. Somoo had to wear the skirt and the bag stopped once on one of the boys and he pulled out the bathing suit top (we all just about died laughing) and then the bag stopped on him again and he pulled out the bathing suit bottom. This turned us all hysterical. (I got pictures of it all, so check out kodak......seriously hilarious!!!). They were all such good sports! I kept thinking they would never go for this in America....we'd be way too shy! Anyways, they all loved it! I love to laugh so much, it refreshes me! I definitely got my fill of being refreshed tonight! There was so much joy flowing through that place! We all had a blast!
Anyways, I have a border run coming up here real soon. If you don't know what a border run is, it means that I have to cross the border to get a stamp in my passport. I got a one year visa, but the rules of the visa is that I cross the border every three months and then I can remain in the country for one year. I think they do this so the Thai government keeps tabs on me or something. Anyways, I don't know if you've been hearing, but there are protests going on in Burma right now to protest against the civil war that has been going on for decades. These protests have been causing a lot of uproar and the Burmese soldiers are not really fond of that. Anyways, the border that I want to cross is only 15 minutes away and that border is the Thai/Burmese border. We're not sure if the border is exactly safe, so we're praying about what it's going to be like. If the border is not safe then I'm going to have to go to Chiang Mai by bus and then to Malaysia by airplane. That's a lot more expensive then the simple 15 minute truck ride to the Burma border. Anyways, please keep this situation in your prayers. Also, keep all the events going on in Burma in your prayers.
Other than this, still just teaching the children at the Huai Bong School and more and more kids are coming to the lessons I teach at the orphanage. This week, I have been testing the children in English. It's been a busy Monday full of testing and the rest of the week will be the same. They need an English grade for their report cards and I'm their English teacher, so testing is calling my name...."Kru Andrea". My classes will be smaller over the break because many of the children will go home to their villages, so it will be nice to work with a smaller class, although I'm really growing fond of my large class.....they're so much fun!! October 11-13th we're having a youth camp here, so that's going to be a blast too!! I have one station where the kids will come too and we will play crazy, wacky games and they must listen to directions only in English.....we'll see how that goes :) I'll definitely be putting pics of that up!! Anyways, my night was great!! I laughed enough to last anyone a month....but I know there will only be more laughter and joy tomorrow......Praise God!! Life couldn't be any better!! I'm off to sleep now so the joys of tomorrow can come quickly!
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I saw the pics :0P That's amazing! How do you get all of these ideas! Want to come be my teacher at ASU?
The pictures show that everyone had a great time laughing. What a way to learn about the seasons. Keep up the good work Kru Andrea. Love DAD
So, men wearing women's clothing, huh? Do you think sinning is a joke?! Do you think God is laughing?! Yeah, I think so, too... :) It probably rained because God was laughing so hard. He sure does love you! :)
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