Cold Showers

Oh yes.

The bathroom is a toilet, a sink and a shower head. That's it! You just sort of shower in the room. With cold water. It's good to know that I can survive the one thing I really didn't want to happen. The bad thing is, i'll probably stop showering. Hate. Cold. Water.

We're too busy to shower anyways! I've been here 3 days and been out in service twice. Gave my first Thai presentation today. I said hello to a cute little girl who was walking through her front yard. She paused so I went into reading my little script. Halfway through, she just turned and walked away. That bad, huh? She wasn't going to get away that easily. I kept calling out hello until she nervously popped her head out of the house again. I made her suffer through the whole thing this time. She looked very puzzled until I got to the part about "this is for you" and then she smiled and took the tract. Did I feel like a success? Why yes I did.

Amy and I had a couple of good conversations after that. I got my first hug from a total stranger. What's nice is many people know at least a few words of English which makes me relax a bit when talking to them. But i'm getting very comfortable with shrugging my shoulders, smiling and saying "I don't know!" Oddly enough, they keep talking. I like these friendly people.

We inherited two little fish ponds with our house. They're in awful shape so i'm trying to learn how to take care of them so the fish can live. Don't know anything about freshwater pond care soooooo we'll see.

I found out I have two weeks to learn how to read Thai! The Thai class starts in February and they expect you to be able to read before then. Oops. Thankfully, Amy has children's workbooks, you know, the kind you had in kindergarden. I trace the nice big letters and say the sounds they make in my big girl voice. That is, I do it when i'm not screaming down the streets on the back of a scooter. Or trying some new Thai dish i've never heard of. Or trying desperately to communicate with someone whos native language is  Thai, Japanese, Russian, Korean or sign language. 

We study alot. I could describe it more, but that's the main point. 

Another great thing: i've already made smoke come out of an outlet! Or, my blowdryer did. Good, got that out of the way. Dad, thank you for the adapters. You saved my hair. 

My roommates are fun, brave, spiritually focused girls. It might be a small simple home but it's a very healthy spiritual environment. We're enjoying getting to know each other and supporting each other in the ministry. Jehovah answered all of our prayers!

Oh, and i'm sure you'd like to know that the weather here is perfect. 

Next time i'll post pictures!