Internet For A Bit

I got lucky & was able to get online today! Yay! Now I can give you an update about Kanchanaburi. We arrived on Thursday, and we spent most of the day settling into our new location. Our guys are sleeping outside on a covered concrete slab (with mattresses, of course). Our girls are staying in this sort of tree house thing. Mom, Dad, & I are staying inside with house with the family: Arun & Pang and Pang's parents, At & Noot. The parents love me!

We're living on a farm with eighteen goats, two cows, two huge pigs, two dogs, & two cats. Plus, just down the road from us is the real goat farm, which has over 100 goats! I love all the animals! One of the dogs is a black lab, just like Mommy used to have in Texas. She's really happy about that. :)

On Friday, we went to visit the two elementary schools where Mommy, Daddy, & the team will be teaching English while we are here. They will visit both schools each day, and then in the afternoon the team will work with the goats. On Friday afternoon, everyone else went to the goat farm, but Mommy & I stayed behind to play and go for a walk. As people were driving past, they would slow down to look at us. I don't think they see many white people out here very often. I've heard we are only about 20 km from the border of Myanmar (Burma). After they got back from the goat farm, we went to get ice cream & to go swimming in a lake. I didn't swim, but Daddy and Mommy were trying to teach me to skip stones.

They want us to have our days off on Saturdays, so this week we went on a lot of adventures! First we visited a museum called Hellfire Pass Museum. I mostly played with At & Noot, while Daddy & Mommy walked around and read a bunch of information on the walls. Then we went to Erawan Falls, and we played in some big waterfalls where there were lots of fish! Next we went to see the bridge over the River Kwai. I hear there's a movie about this bridge and that the movie is one of Pa's favorites. I guess I'll have to watch it when we get back home. But, Daddy pushed me all the way across the bridge, and then we had dinner on a floating restaurant right at the base of the bridge. It was fun! Plus, there was a really pretty sunset for us to see. God is so creative! Lastly, we went to the Tesco Lotus store and got some groceries & school supplies for teaching this week.

Sunday we went to two churches: one at 8 am and one at 10 am. The second one lasted about five hours, which was a really long time, but the people there were very nice to me! They let me play a lot in the dirt! I love dirt and rocks. I also got my first skinned knee, but I barely cried.

Today we went to both elementary schools to teach: one for two hours and the second one just for one hour. Lots of kids wanted to play with me, but mostly I hung out with the teachers while the team taught English. They were nice!

Well, I think I have to let Mommy have a turn on the computer now. Thanks for reading my update!