Thailand, Day 13 - March 20, 2010

Wow what a great week. Well I keep getting behind on this, but lets rundown the days, shall we?

So Day 6 ended with us all going to this beautiful lake and eating picnic style with the girls, getting all the shots for the supporters and group shots of all the girls together. It was a fun night, I learned a bit more Thai from some of the girls.

So the next 3 days are a bit of a blur, due to some sort of stomach bug that made my stomach shrink in size due to diarrhea. Which is in fact, not fun. It was hard to keep anything down, and given the food is spicy didn't help at all. Church was Day 7, which was interesting in its own little way, a bit prosperity gospel-ish (ugh!). We did go up to the mountain on Day 8 and filmed a Buddhist temple, which was quite beautiful. Got some good shots for the video there. After endless nights of getting up and 'emptying' my already empty stomach, Day 9 I finally went and got some meds, which didn't help so much that day, but did help the next day. Day 9 also consisted of filming the girls, interviewing them and making sure Hannah House is what they truly want to do.

Day 10 and 11 kinda squash together because Im a bit behind on journaling, and so I will give the basics... we went into town, fished (I caught a 55-60 pounder.)hung out with the girls a bit more, went to a movie theater and watched Dear John (eh), and had dinner at Sangla's place again. It was yummy fish. Oh yeah, we kinda road elephants. Yeah thats right, the big things with long trunks and dumbo ears. It was fun.

Day 12, Me and John went into town to prepare for the evening, in which we would have the girls and their parents over for dinner, worship, bible teaching, prayer, and an introduction of Hannah House to the parents. It was a good night, having everyone over and just having a great time of community. After the girls left, we watched a movie, then hit the hay.

Today, Day 13, we are leaving at 10am to get Sangla and head to two of the girl's village and stay there the night, then preach tomorrow morning, and head back to town after that. Im not sure what to expect, but I do expect to get some awesome shots.

Cambodia next week.

Well thats all I got for now, till next time. This trip is almost over.

-Matt