Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest heights...

We are on our second day of new teacher orientation. Yesterday we became a little bit more familiar with the policies and procedures of the MOE in Thailand, as well as all that needs to be done yet for us to obtain our work visas.

Today was a tid bit more interesting in that we learned a little bit about Buddhism as well as Thai sports/games. This included making a kite!


Tomorrow we will be going on a field trip (woo-hoo!) to a park, pottery place, canal, and a floating market. We're looking forward to experiencing some new sights!

A few praises:
-Friendships have been forming! This has been an area that I have really been praying about lately. I found myself feeling a bit lonely with no female fellowship. It's hard to be away from our small group from church and have to start all over making friends again... but praise God for his faithfulness and how he shepherds his sheep!
-Our world is slowly expanding! Little by little we are becoming more and more comfortable with our surroundings and have slowly been exploring new areas.
-We are learning a few more Thai words here and there, and have been trying to confidently use them during outings.
-We experienced practically no jet-lag and are totally used to the 12 hour time difference now.

A few prayer requests:
-Finding a church home. We have visited two different churches so far, but will continue to keep looking. It's difficult to not compare everything to SGF.
-Grace in preparing for the school year that starts in less than 2 weeks!!
-Adapting to the heat/humidity... particularly for Mike as he won't be in air-con with his PE classes.
-Solid male friendships for Mike.
-Finding a gentle balance between working hard, but not over-working.
-Making it a consistent priority to set aside time to spend in the word each day... I've found this particularly hard as our whole world has been turned upside down.

More to come on some interesting outings/adventures that we've had as of late! God is good.