After church Stephanie, Erin, Leah, and I went to eat. We rested for a few hours and then Stephanie and I went for a walk. We went into Pastor & Kim William's compound. They have a playground and we had fun playing on all the equipment! We noticed that there was a soccer ball in the field. We kicked it around for a while. We enjoyed the exercise and the fresh air.
Today(Sunday) we went to the mall. When you make a trip to the
mall, you think, "Where are my keys?" and you're there in less than 10 min. We have several options to choose from. We ca
n take a taxi, which is probably not the best option because they like to rip of foreigners. Also, a lot of them don't like to go to certain areas. We opted to take the big yellow bus that would take us all the way to the mall. I was okay and air-co
nditioned. After we got there, we had fun looking around at everything different from what we're used to. Their malls have so
many levels. We took a ton of escalat
ors.
They have pictures of their queen everywhere. A lot Thais wai(bow) to the picture as they pass by. The respect they have for their king and queen is so amazing. We had fun walking around outs
ide the ma
ll. They had a fountain like the one at Bicentennial Mall in Downtown Nashville. I got cough suppressant pills from the mall to help with my cold that seems to be getting worse. Stephanie and I also got drinks at Starbucks. We enjoyed them so much! Like a little piece of home! I got a Pomegran
ate Peach Frappucino and Stephanie got a Coffee Light Frappucino with raspberry. I have enjoyed not hacking and coughing since I've taken the medicine.
The trip back proved to be a bit more puzzling. We decided not to take the bus because we were really tired and we wanted a quick trip back to relax and lay down. So, we decided to take the BTS(subway). We thought we had the right track, but luckily we realized we were standi
ng at the wrong one before we hopped on and headed the totally
opposite way! We looked at a map for Ekamai and found the right one. It's always so crowded on the BTS, but we got out with a big group, so it's okay! At the end of the month, it'll just be Stephanie and I going out because Leah & Erin are being sent to another school 8 hours away. So Stephanie and I will have to brave the world of taxis, tuk tuks, buses, & the BTS alone. Hopefully Mike will come with us sometimes that way we have a larger number of people! Although, I really don't see us having to use t
he BTS or even go down that way more than once a week if even that.
Anyways, back to the trip home. We finally got on the right track to Ekamai. That part was
really easy to understand. They have a screen in the BTS telling you what stop you're coming up on. We got off there and that's where the confusion began. We had no idea what form of transportation to take us to our street. It was a little too far to walk, but we didn't know what to do. We accidentally haled like 3 buses that we didn't need and we didn't know how to ask them which bus we needed. finally the driver to a bus, pointed behind us at the upcoming bus on the road and motioned and nodded his head. We got the picture that we needed to be on that bus. It was SOOOOO packed and we first thought that we wouldn't fit. They waved us on anyway though. It was thrilling!
We shoved ourselves in. Next we had the problem of understanding what the bus lady was saying....???? We were trying SOOO hard to understand, but she didn't want to waste her time with us. She was actually being really rude. We finally all paid our 8 baht and found spots to hold on for dear life. We tried asking her in Thai when our street was coming up, because there were so many people in the bus and we couldn't see out the windows!!! She wanted nothing to do with us and pretty much refused to answer. Oh well. We finally noticed stuff outside starting to look familiar, so we pressed the big red button asking the bus to pull over. He stopped and then we hopped off. We were super excited to see our street!
We ended an exciting day. Now Stephanie and I are sitting in her room typing away on the internet. Tomorrow we will return to school and work, but we get a break on Tuesday because it's the Thai Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to all! God Bless!
---------------------------------------------------^That's our street sign
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