A good day

I wrote a whole post last night and then the Internet decided to go out for a moment and I lost it. I was too tired to rewrite it. Luckily, today was better than yesterday so this post will be more cheerful. Yesterday, I was feeling very homesick since I was confused as to what to do with the children and got stuck with the Kindergartners with nothing to do-hah, I couldn't deal with all day playtime. Also, I was brought to the church attended by all at Ban San Faan. Brian, Malee's husband-she manages the children's home and lives a few steps away, brought me to the church which I then realized was Evangelical. I had tagged along simply because I wanted to see something outside the Children's home, which is really nice but on the outskirts of town. The service was much like what I have seen on TV about Evangelical mass-a lot of loud singing with hands raised and then people receiving the holy spirit and falling down. It was slightly frightening and I wanted to run out though Brian was just too nice of a man to offend. I respect everyone's right to worship in that manner, but I definitely will not be participating willingly. To explain where I am further, I am living in a really nice, new building that has many rooms that open to a sort-of courtyard (which is shaded as well, thankfully). My room has bunk beds, although I am the only one sleeping their at the moment, two comfortable chairs, English books, and its own bathroom. It's actually really nice and I'll probably miss it when I leave to travel with John at the end of May.

Today, I got to help out with more English classes and Math. I spent time working alone with the Kindergartners as well, but this time they had to make cards for their sponsors so luckily I wasn't asked to crawl on the floor and pretend to be an elephant like I had the previous day :)
The Kindergartners are really cute and consist of the youngest, Abby, who is 4, Ruth and Esther, who are 5 year old twins, Mark, and Paul, both 5 years old as well. One of the Thai women told me to go find my "fan club" hah. They do tend to follow me around. There may be a baby coming here while I am still here. He is 8 months old and living with a family until he is ready to come to Ban San Faan. That should be interesting if he does arrive while I am here. Did I spell Kindergartner right???

I also got to see the ice cream man today. He drives a cart around attached to his motorbike and rings a bell until all of the children run outside. He was selling coconut and banana leaf flavored ice cream. The children got their ice cream in rolls. I had mine in a cone. I actually saw the hamburger bun, hot dog bun, roll phenomenon of Asia on the Travel Channel before I left or I would have been very confused. On the Travel Channel they actually had yam flavored ice cream and something else that sounded terrible. I also sat outside with the children and watched some men set up a jungle gym and swing set. They actually were painting it once it got there and Bill (the man that orchestrated Ban San Faan) said that the swing set pieces were all fashioned by hand. I was wondering why he didn't just get plastic because he was complaining that they may be too hard and the children might hurt each other with them. He said that the Thais like to do things their own way and its cheaper to make the swings that had arrived.