So I do not really know where exactly to begin. The first half of my day was good. We went to church and met all of the members
there. They just have branches in Chiang
Mai but they are all such good members.
Sacrament meeting and Relief Society was nice because we got to wear
these cool head phone thingys that translated what the people were saying. A missionary sat in the back and translated.
We went to lunch after church to this really cool restaurant
Spencer knew of from when he was on his mission. We all ordered and Chloe got her food way
before the rest of us. When we looked at
Chloe food closer, Spencer started laughing.
None of us understood why he was laughing. Apparently Chloe’s dish had blood in it and
Spencer did not know that when he ordered it for her. Chloe, being as daring as she is, tried
it. (You have to understand… This blood
she was about to eat was not in liquid form. Oh no, it was gelatinized. Like jello
or tofu.) Yes, she tried it.
A few hours later came the time for Kristin and I to leave
Ginny’s and go to the orphanage. This
place is about 40 minutes out of the city.
It was a nice drive. We had to
take Bird’s (Bird is a Thai guy that has been helping us the past few
weeks. He is awesome) truck which only
had two seats… So Spencer, Kristin and I rode in the back. It was bumpy and uncomfortable but the breeze
was so nice and it was a really good way to see the city and the
countryside.
So when we got to the orphanage, it was so much different
from what I thought it was going to be like.
It is huge, well the amount of land is and they farm it all by
themselves. They have all kinds of
different fruits and vegetable. The
pulled some bananas off the trees and gave them to us to try. So ahroy! – Delicious! Our room is fine, with
no air conditioning but it has a really good working fan. They showed us around the property. The kids are great and really fun and most
can speak English. Then it was dinnertime,
but when they brought out the dish of what we were eating my first thought was
– I had never seen anything look more disgusting in my entire life. Terrible I know but that was how bad it
looked. It was green with peas and beans
and the white stringy things. I can’t
explain it well but yeah. Once I saw
that I became completely overwhelmed. I almost started crying. It was not because of the fact that the
dinner was gross or the fact that Spencer was leaving just everything. It was really hard. I think it was that I was thousands of miles
away from my family in some place that is so foreign to me and around all of
these kids that I had never met. I was
freaking out.
Our room is pretty good.
It is kinda funny because I feel like I am at girls camp all over
again. In my house at home in Arizona,
if we saw a bug we freaked out and found someone more brave to kill it. Even a simple fly, someone got out the fly
swatter and killed it. Here I am living
with bugs like they are my roommates.
They are everywhere. But it is
not so bad because I am brave, although I do scream once or twice. Like this morning there was a frog on our
toilet, just chillin there. Yeah I
screamed them.
The kids are great.
Really they are so wonderful and friendly. A lot of them speak okay English so we get by
pretty good. There is a little boy named
Lee-be. He is so funny and similar to
kids at home that are his age. That is
what I have come to notice, although these kids live completely different lives
then we do in America, they are still kids.
They still cry and laugh and tease and joke. They remind me of all my cousins. I guess I did not know what to expect but it
was certainly not that. I don’t know
why.
This morning we had more green stuff for breakfast. I found out that it was actually morning
glory. The weeds that people spray in
their front yard to try to kill them.
Yes I ate those.
Anyways things are good.
So much different then I expected.
But I will get used to it.
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