Highlights from this week

This week was a fun one. Pawn, one of our Thai staff and her husband, Chai, are expecting their first child next week (the 15th!). When I was pregnant Kim had a baby shower for me and Pawn (who didn't know she was pregnant at the time) told Kim, "When I have a baby, I want a party like this!" So, we had a baby shower for Pawn and Chai and their little guy. This is not a Thai thing to do so it was a lot of fun to "shower" them with things to prepare for their new arrival. She got a lot of nice things.

The only thing non-American thing about the baby shower was that Pawn insisted on making the food. So, she and Yu (another one of our Thai staff) made yummy spicy glass noodle salad and a pumpkin curry.
Pictured from left to right: Pawn, Phim (the cleaning lady for the office), Yu, Irene (intern here for 4 months), Kim, Chai, and Jan (Dave's wife).








We also had a huge thunderstorm on Wednesday evening. I think it rained nearly three hours...maybe longer. Usually in Thailand rainstorms don't last that long. At any rate, this was the road in front of the office three days after the rains came...still flooded!














Yesterday we ended the week by going to Maahaathai slum. Our team leader, Dave, usually goes with the four Thai interns from Bangkok Bible College. (We have four Thai interns, two guys and two girls. They come every weekend to work with our team.) The interns lead the children in singing and some games and then they teach them some English while Dave teaches about four adult women. Yesterday Dave and his family had to go to Cambodia for a visa run so we filled in for him. Paul and I taught the adult women. We worked on some pronunciation issues. For instance, we would read "fly an airplane" but they would say "fry an airplane." We also worked on the "v" sound...Thais don't have this sound in their alphabet and pronounce it as "w" instead. It was a lot of fun to see the kids laughing and playing some fun games. Pictured here they are playing some sort of shooting game. I must admit it was hard to understand what my role was in this game at first! Eventually I got onto it though.