Speeches and Burma

This post covers yesterday with getting into part of today.

Yesterday, the 22nd, we were picked up to go to Thoo Mwee Key school in the morning. We had plans to visit Brandon’s speaking class again. We were able to sit in on 3-4 of his classes as they continued with the theme of who do you admire the most in your life.

As we sat and listened to their stories of their mother’s or father’s or grand parents we found ourselves fascinated by their experiences in such a relatively short life. Here were these young boys and girls, around 18-20 years of age, having experiences that sound both painful emotionally and difficult due to poverty in many cases, knowing that in my life I was very blessed to avoid such difficult times. Some stories made us laugh and some definitely tugged at our heart as they shared their story of fleeing from the soldiers or how their Mom and/or Dad sacrificed to send them to school. They were telling us all of this in English, their 2nd or 3rd language. To me that was impressive on what they already achieved.

After sitting in on those classes we visited for awhile and Kevin showed Pastor Peacefully all of the tools he brought over for their use. Peacefully was extremely grateful for these as they are cordless tools that will be put to good use over here.

We, of course, played with the kids and babies around. Jenny even held a (flea infested) puppy for awhile. (She did put him down once she realized the fleas were all over him).

While we were visiting I received a call from Pastor Emmanuel Jonah of Liberia. He wanted to talk with me before he headed home. I was able to video chat with him and show him around Thoo Mwee Key school. What a treat to show our Liberian friend around a school in Thailand that reminds me of Liberia in many ways. He enjoyed seeing how their school is laid out. He is now headed back to Liberia himself and I know he is excited to see his family again.

After visiting we headed out for supper where Jenny and I tried a traditional Thai meal (can’t remember the name) and we both put a little too much chili’s on it. We both experienced the spice of Thai life last night. It was very good though. Kevin and Sherry chose the milder route for supper with fried rice and chicken. After we ate we headed back to our hotel and we all called it an early night. Even though we just sat in the classes the heat seemed to make us a little more tired. I know back home they aren’t having our heat struggles.

Well, I was going to get into today’s adventure, but I’ll post this and try and finish today’s after our day ends.