Slow news day

No click-bait on the title - today was pretty much a ‘steady as she goes’ day.
Meals, lessons and weather continued much the same as previously without an afternoon storm.
Just two main points of interest stand out for today.
The first and most encouraging thing is that one of the students is expressing interest in taking her Bible study further with us- which is a big part of what all this is about- so that’s exciting.

The second point of interest was to go to the farmers’ markets this afternoon again. As I’m teaching John the Baptist tomorrow, I was hoping to get some of the fried bugs we saw for sale last week to share with the class but alas, that vendor wasn’t there today. In fact the market was severely depleted due to the ongoing Songkran celebrations.
The other notable thing at the markets were that there were quite a number of the Long Neck village girls there doing their shopping ‘incognito’.

Due to the fact that the Long Neck village derives most of its income from tourists paying an admission fee to come and stare at them and take photos - the powers that be pressure them to wear scarves over the neck rings when they are out in public so that they don’t provide a free photo opportunity. All rather sad.

Tonight was a lesson and craft activity based on the theme ‘What would Jesus Do?’ It seemed to be well received and enjoyed.Read more