English Camp

Its been awhile since I've been able to post anything. The desktop computer here has broken, so I don't get a lot of opportunity anymore to go online, but I'm still trying! Church on Sunday was great. We meet on the 3rd floor of this building in a big open room with a baptistry in a corner. We had about 20 people there, and they are all very passionate. They love singing. They sang all the songs in Thai, and had the phonetics for us English speakers to sing along with them. For communion, we all stood in a circle, prayed over it, and then took it. It was quite different, it lasted about 1 1/2 hours. Afterwards we left for a village up in the mountains where we taught an English camp. The ride was about 2 hours through a windy road up the mountains. One of my teammates got sick because of it. Well we got up there and stayed the night with this family who had about 50 chickens just running around outside. They didn't have a very big house but let all 15 of us stay there. We were woken up around 5:30 by a rooster. None of us were very happy at that time haha.
That morning we met up at the school at 9:00. We had an hour to teach songs and games to everyone in the school. We sang songs like "peace like a river" and other fun songs that got them up and moving. We were on stage singing the songs and doing the motions. We got really into it asw well as you can see. Then we broke off ito grades and each of us interns were paired with a thai intern and taught a grade. I was paired up with the 11th and 12th graders with two thai interns and Terri, one of my teammates. We went to their classroom and they sit with guys and girls separated from each other. They already knew the alphabet, so we taught them parts of the body, food, and played games with them. After that inividual grade time, we met back up as a big group and did a few more songs and a closing game. They had a good time and so did we. Before they leave school everyday they all stand in line and sing the Kings song. We've learned that everyone stands still to pay respect whenever that song is being sung/played. We got back from that last night and I was exhausted. I went to bed around 9:00 and slept in till 9:00 today. I got a full 12 hours of sleep and feel well rested today. Today is our day off so I had some time to update my blog. I put a link on the side of my blog to my facebook album where I have put up lots more pictures from my trip.
We ate at a Mexican restaraunt today for lunch. It was actually owned by an American and I was relieved that I didn't have to have somebody translate what I was saying. AND it was great mexican food for Thailand. I love Thai food, but sometimes I get tired of eating rice all the time.
I wore jeans for the first time today. I'll NEVER do that again. I was way too hot today and I changed immediately when we got back!!!
We pass a lot of cows on the side of the rode when we drive somewhere. The cows here are very skinny, almost sickly looking. I would be concerned, but they all look that way. I suppose its because they dont get fed all these preservatives or nutrients or whatever America feeds their animals. We also passed an elephant on the side of the road, that was really cool! I can't wait until we get to ride on top of one. We should do that in a few weeks or so, we also are planning to go bambo rafting sometime.
Also, I had some letters to mail today, so me and Whitney decided to walk around to find a post office. Well I think we were out for about 30 minutes looking! We kept asking Thai people where it was. Sometimes we'd have act out what we were looking for. It was really funny (and hot) walking about helpless, but we eventually found it. We have a lot of adventures here in Thailand! Well that is about all for now, I will update this next time I get a chance!