Liverpool jersey I got David--nice!
The Happy Birthday Jesus cake
Tricia reading the Christmas story. Don't worry her shirt was a gag gift from Shana--it's just for pretend!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Team Christmas
Christmas Day in Chiang Mai, Thailand was so great. It was definitely not a normal Christmas, but it was still a great time of fellowship. This year I missed out on Welty family Christmas in North Carolina with everyone from my dad's side of the family. I really did miss hanging out with all of the cousins, eating ridiculously good food, and watching Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story. But even though I missed all of the good times in America, I still had a great holiday with my team. We had team dinner with our favorite 5 star chicken and all the sides. After stuffing ourselves we opened presents from our secret santa. Candice made a Happy Birthday Jesus cake so we could sing and blow out the candles. It was really cute and really good cake. Tricia then read the Christmas story in Luke. The evening concluded with an intense game of speed scrabble. I think I got last place. I always thought I was better with numbers than with words. I am very thankful that I was able to spend my Christmas overseas with a great team!
Liverpool jersey I got David--nice!
The Happy Birthday Jesus cake
Tricia reading the Christmas story. Don't worry her shirt was a gag gift from Shana--it's just for pretend!
Liverpool jersey I got David--nice!
The Happy Birthday Jesus cake
Tricia reading the Christmas story. Don't worry her shirt was a gag gift from Shana--it's just for pretend!
Christmas Parties
In America it seems that you always have a Christmas Party to attend. You know, the neighbors, friends, church, or whatever else. Well, as surprising as it is we had several parties to go to also. We put on a Christmas party for our Rajabhat students at the Dealy's house. We had a sugar cookie decorating contest, games, dirty Santa, and even sang Christmas carols. We had an awesome turnout of about 28 students, many of whom were new faces.
Decorating cookies
This is the King as a sugar cookie
Ring the tree game
We also had Friday Night Lights Christmas style including a gift exchange and a drawing for gifts. We of course sang Christmas songs and played some fun games. The Thai staff did a really great job of decorating the stage and providing 5 star chicken and sticky rice.
P'Pai and P'Gaa as the MCs for the night
All of the students and staff sitting on mats in the gym
And finally, we had our big staff Christmas Eve party with all of the Thai staff and everyone involved with Campus Crusade. The theme for the party was "Fancy Christmas." So all of the farangs thought that meant dress fancy or nice right? Well it seems that many of the Thai staff thought it meant "fantasy Christmas" as in wear a costume. It was so funny to see the range of outfits. Each team had to do a special performance. So my team thought it would be fun to do the 12 days of Christmas Thai style.
Here's how it went... On the 1st day of Christmas my Thai friends gave to me a bowl of green curry! (keep in mind that we of course had to do motions for each of the 12 days)
1 bowl of green curry
2 2B coffees (a coffee shop down the street)
3 squatty potties
4 traffic whistles blowing
5 star chicken (the only brand of chicken that I will eat)
6 mosquito zappers
7 Recreation teams
8 Karen frogs croaking (wooden frogs that Karen ladies try to sell us at night market)
9 Thai ladies dancing
10 stray dogs running
11 people in a song taw (like a truck)
12 kilos of khaaw niaw (sticky rice)
Our rendition was hilarious to all of the foreigners, and only slightly funny to the Thai people. It's all about perspective I suppose.
Decorating cookies
This is the King as a sugar cookie
Ring the tree game
We also had Friday Night Lights Christmas style including a gift exchange and a drawing for gifts. We of course sang Christmas songs and played some fun games. The Thai staff did a really great job of decorating the stage and providing 5 star chicken and sticky rice.
P'Pai and P'Gaa as the MCs for the night
All of the students and staff sitting on mats in the gym
And finally, we had our big staff Christmas Eve party with all of the Thai staff and everyone involved with Campus Crusade. The theme for the party was "Fancy Christmas." So all of the farangs thought that meant dress fancy or nice right? Well it seems that many of the Thai staff thought it meant "fantasy Christmas" as in wear a costume. It was so funny to see the range of outfits. Each team had to do a special performance. So my team thought it would be fun to do the 12 days of Christmas Thai style.
Here's how it went... On the 1st day of Christmas my Thai friends gave to me a bowl of green curry! (keep in mind that we of course had to do motions for each of the 12 days)
1 bowl of green curry
2 2B coffees (a coffee shop down the street)
3 squatty potties
4 traffic whistles blowing
5 star chicken (the only brand of chicken that I will eat)
6 mosquito zappers
7 Recreation teams
8 Karen frogs croaking (wooden frogs that Karen ladies try to sell us at night market)
9 Thai ladies dancing
10 stray dogs running
11 people in a song taw (like a truck)
12 kilos of khaaw niaw (sticky rice)
Our rendition was hilarious to all of the foreigners, and only slightly funny to the Thai people. It's all about perspective I suppose.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Christmas Outreach
Hey there everyone! Sorry for the slowness in updating the blog. Things have been crazy busy around here. So time to get everyone up to speed!
A week before Christmas we had our outreach on campus. We had an opportunity for students to come take pictures with Santa Claus, to play games, and to receive a Jesus Film. Jon, Bjorn, and some of our students created a backdrop out of styrofoam (you can find foam on every corner in Thailand) and paint--it looked fabulous! Andrew dressed up as Santa Claus, and David was our designated photographer. We had about 150 students come to get there picture made. It was really great fun to meet new students and to share with them why we celebrate Christmas.
Andrew as Santa
Keam (pronouced gam) working the Christmas games
A week before Christmas we had our outreach on campus. We had an opportunity for students to come take pictures with Santa Claus, to play games, and to receive a Jesus Film. Jon, Bjorn, and some of our students created a backdrop out of styrofoam (you can find foam on every corner in Thailand) and paint--it looked fabulous! Andrew dressed up as Santa Claus, and David was our designated photographer. We had about 150 students come to get there picture made. It was really great fun to meet new students and to share with them why we celebrate Christmas.
Andrew as Santa
Keam (pronouced gam) working the Christmas games
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