Trip to the South (Part 1)

My long awaited tale of our trip to Ban Krut. Well, it was very nice. Like I said before, we planned on having 6 or 8 people, and so I called around to get a few more people, to try and save us money, and then we end up with 16 people on this trip. It was great and I really enjoyed getting to know the guys but I am more of a small group kind of guy.

So we traveled by Train:

We then arrived at Ban Krut after a long ride, playing games, talking and wondering if we would ever get there. I think we arrived around 12 or 1 in the morning after leaving around 3:30 pm.  When we go there we had to take a ride in the back of a truck to the hotel. It was nice to get to the place and relax and then go to sleep.

In the morning we got to see the place:

(Top: Hotel; Middle Left: Cafeteria; Middle Right: Beach; Bottom: Beach)

We stayed in the hotel pictured above and then every morning would walk down to the cafeteria for breakfast.  You could see the beach and the ocean from the cafeteria, something like the picture bottom.  Not in the picture is a road that separated the beach from the cafeteria.

The next day we took a motorbike trip with eight motorbikes, we looked like a bike gang as we traveled the roads.  I don't have any pictures from that but I do have some video, I still have to get it from Nok, so I will update that when I get a chance.

But here are some pictures from the hike we took at the waterfall:

To be continued...

So let's start talking to each other face-to-face, right? Let's get 100% of the conversation from now on.

Help the People in Malamulo

If you want to help than please contact me and I will get you more information.  Mindi traveled to Malawi, Africa to help the people there with getting water and is a dedicated person for helping those less fortunate. Help her as she tries to support and help out those people in Africa.

Thanks.

Vacation in Thailand

This last weekend a group of us here in Bangkok decided to go on a little trip south.

We had planned at the most 8 people and by the time we new it and we were traveling on the train to Ban Krut, we had 16 people (Kelly, Jorge, Nok, Ryan, Renee, Annet, Terra, Laura, Maile, Sangki, Ricky, Brandon, Rob, Robin, Supap, and Corey).  Hopefully I spelled all the names right, having this group was crazy but fun.  Two of the guys had just got to Thailand.  Anyways, Nok and I planned things out and paid for the train and lodging, and then collected money.  Nok got to be our translator, something that, if you think about it, would not be fun if everyone asks you every second to translate.  But I think over all the trip was fun and enjoyable for all.

I will have pictures up in a few days, hopefully tonight.  I will have a whole blog dedicated to the trip.  It was very nice.  We rented motor-bikes and road around and visited the area.  Our accomidation was set back from the ocean but the main road connecting the resorts was along the ocean, which made for a great scenic ride, when you're on a motor-bike.

On Sunday we took an hour ride to find a waterfall, and went rock hopping, something I learned as a kid and still enjoy to this day.  But I sure did miss the people that I used to go with, ie.. Scott and Bryce.

But now I am back at school, teaching and coaching.  Last night was our second TNL program.  We had 8 students come.  And I feel that it went very well.  I know that God wants to do something special with this group.  And I am glad to be apart of it.

To be continued...

Life in Bangkok

Last week beginning on Thursday, the 29th of January.  Our school hosted a tournament for our league called BISAC.  The tournament was for all the International schools in who are part of our organization.  There were 10 teams in total, the tournament was for the JV Girls which are our U17 teams.

The Tourny was played on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.  With the majority of the games on Sunday.  There were two pools where the teams got to play four games and then the top two teams of each pool got into the semi-finals.

The Championship game was between Shrewsbury and EIS.  It was a great game and in the end EIS came out victorious.  It was nice when the game was over, I had been up since 6:30 and left the gym by 6 PM that night.  I am still feeling sleepy from not getting enough sleep.

http://www.eis.ac.th//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120&Itemid=1

Anyways.  This week is not busy at all, I have no classes till Wednesday at 1:30 PM.  I am doing some inventory of the equipment and that we have, checking to see if there are things we need for next year.

God please bless this week!

Later.