bucket ball.

First, I just want to start off by saying THANK YOU, (especially to Shari) for giving me a little kick on updating this blog, I may need that from time to time. Also, THANK YOU for just taking time out of your day to read about what's up in Chiang Rai :)
I'm helping with the PE class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and this was what they played on Tuesday. It's a very fun game for the resourceful (aka MK's) when you don't always have sports equipment like a basketball goal, court, field or...anything really. At first, I was a little confused...but here are the rules (very similar to ultimate frisbee). You move up and down the "field" (shown here) and try to throw the ball to your teammates.

When you catch the ball, you can't take any steps and you're trying to shoot and score on the "goal". The "goal" if you notice is a girl standing on a plastic stool holding a basket.

They didn't complain or fight, and no one kept track of the score...they just played hard and had fun :) The kids here are so awesome, I'm really enjoying getting to know them.

I'm starting to help with youth group on Tuesday nights, it's wonderful to see youth really wanting to learn more from the Bible. There are also aspects of sterotypical middle and high school, same drama (she likes HIM!?!) maybe without the drugs and violence. :)

Jesus is cool quote of the day: Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his life for me will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Lately I've been thinking about this idea. If you saw the movie "V for Vendetta" you probably have a good idea what I'm talking about. The point that we can't truly live until we're not afraid to die. What if it's true, what if we can't really be free to live for Jesus until we're not scared of the idea of dying to ourselves. Just a thought...

My INCREDIBLE friend/teammate Rene' who's spending a couple years in Nigeria has a blog - http://www.renemarshall.blogspot.com/ where she puts a word she's learned there up everyday, I think I'm going to include that as well b/c I'm taking Thai classes 3 days a week and learning a ton! Some words aren't going to be exact though, b/c they have like 32947 vowels.

Thai Word of the day: thuay - coffee cup