December and January

I just realized that I haven't actually written about what all I've been doing in the past couple of months (it's been more about things I've been thinking). So here's the recap of December and January activities.

Around mid-December most of our students became busy with retesting at Ram University (which most of them attend), and so things at the English Center slowed down. After a Christmas party on the 24th, the English Center closed for the holidays. I spent Christmas day with the other American missionaries on my team and the next day headed out with them and two of our students, Snap and Nut, on a trip to Buriram. Buriram is Snap and Nut's hometown, so we visited with their family and stayed on their farm. We were there about 4 days. When we got back to Bangkok, my team mates Kat, Andy and I spent alot of time at the school their kids attend, helping them out with a musical production the school is putting on this spring (the three of us all have extensive experience in theatre).

We had a great New Year's party at the Watcharapon Church with our brothers and sisters from there and surrounding congregations. And the English Center reopened a few days later.

In early January the RCC group went to a home for handicapped and orphaned children in Bangkok for children's day. We brought snacks and toys for the kids and spent the afternoon playing with them. This year RCC has decided to do a service project every month, to get out in the community and teach the students and Christians who are a part of the center about serving, so the children's home was our project for January.

A week after that we had an LST team arrive. There are 4 people in the team and they will be with us for 6 weeks. Also during these weeks, graduation has been going on on the Ram campus. So we've been to campus several days to take pictures with our students who are graduating, and have hosted a couple graduation parties at RCC for the graduates.