School Daze
The team visited to our second school today. We arrived to a very friendly greeting while parents dropped off thier kid for the day and found out we would be spending the morning teaching english classes. We were partnered up and went out to different classes to teach. I was lucky enough to get an older class that hadn't started yet. They were still busy in the gymnasium so we headed over to wait for them.
We arrived at the gym to find about 500 students, all dressed in yellow standing in rows on the gym floor. Up front the large sound system was just starting to pound out the first beats of my humps and about ten teachers we're stepping up to lead the students. Sonja, Angel and I watched as they hilariously stumbled there way through aerobic excersises to my humps and the song a certian famous fat kid sings to "my ahee, my ahooo, my ahee, my ahaha"(for those of you not up on the e-mail or pop culture these were very funny dance songs to see kids dancing to). One of the funniest things was one teacher who got really into it and wasn't exactly the fittest looking lady. She swung herself around with an amazing display of excitement that could only come out of a genuine love for aerobics to my humps.
After this amazing display the kids scuttled off to there classes and we met the english teacher who turned out to be no less than the excited aerobics instructor. We taught a few classes, which was really wierd at first because we were just kindof thrust in without any instruction. But we caught on to what we were doing and ended up having a great time. We played a game like hot potato where when the music stops, you stop passing the ball and whoever has it has to write an english word. The teacher ran the music and you'll never guess which songs She used for the game.....dancing by the cd player almost the whole time we played.
After lunch we got ready and performed. It went pretty good and I finished it off by speaking the gospel. It's interesting, I've talked alot about Christianity and discussed different aspects but never have I had to do a full gospel speech.
It's funny how you can sit in Church for many years and you pretty much believe what you hear and believe in God when moves in you're life and touches you in specific ways. But to actually stand up and tell a group, this is what one man did and this is what we believe to be true about him is a whole new level. It's easy to talk about abstracts but to nail down the basics of what you've founded everything you believe on and say, despite what doubts you may have, this is true. It's almost like profession of faith all over again exept this time you don't just say I do or whatever, and then come down into the arms of a loving congregation. This time, when you're done you hope the teachers arn't to mad and offended and then when you see that there not you wonder if it was even worth it. You were just talking to kids with no attention span and there's no way to know if they even care or will remember. So, you sit on the stage and laugh as the students ask questions and giggle about which foriegners are cute. But the whole time you're wondering if any kids were changed, if they felt God touch them when you spoke, if they felt him as you have before. But, no answer comes and so you truck it back to Pattaya and get ready for an evening at the youth center. (this may be slightly over-dramatic, the kids we're quite happy when we left and it was a good experience but you still wonder)
Well, since that ended on a bit of an emo tone, I'll just finish this off with the top five things I miss since I'm feeling slightly homesick. I promise to make the next one more positive, maybe my top five favorites.
1. Gravy
2. Solid food
3. Independence
4. Skating bowls
5. Late night adventures
We arrived at the gym to find about 500 students, all dressed in yellow standing in rows on the gym floor. Up front the large sound system was just starting to pound out the first beats of my humps and about ten teachers we're stepping up to lead the students. Sonja, Angel and I watched as they hilariously stumbled there way through aerobic excersises to my humps and the song a certian famous fat kid sings to "my ahee, my ahooo, my ahee, my ahaha"(for those of you not up on the e-mail or pop culture these were very funny dance songs to see kids dancing to). One of the funniest things was one teacher who got really into it and wasn't exactly the fittest looking lady. She swung herself around with an amazing display of excitement that could only come out of a genuine love for aerobics to my humps.
After this amazing display the kids scuttled off to there classes and we met the english teacher who turned out to be no less than the excited aerobics instructor. We taught a few classes, which was really wierd at first because we were just kindof thrust in without any instruction. But we caught on to what we were doing and ended up having a great time. We played a game like hot potato where when the music stops, you stop passing the ball and whoever has it has to write an english word. The teacher ran the music and you'll never guess which songs She used for the game.....dancing by the cd player almost the whole time we played.
After lunch we got ready and performed. It went pretty good and I finished it off by speaking the gospel. It's interesting, I've talked alot about Christianity and discussed different aspects but never have I had to do a full gospel speech.
It's funny how you can sit in Church for many years and you pretty much believe what you hear and believe in God when moves in you're life and touches you in specific ways. But to actually stand up and tell a group, this is what one man did and this is what we believe to be true about him is a whole new level. It's easy to talk about abstracts but to nail down the basics of what you've founded everything you believe on and say, despite what doubts you may have, this is true. It's almost like profession of faith all over again exept this time you don't just say I do or whatever, and then come down into the arms of a loving congregation. This time, when you're done you hope the teachers arn't to mad and offended and then when you see that there not you wonder if it was even worth it. You were just talking to kids with no attention span and there's no way to know if they even care or will remember. So, you sit on the stage and laugh as the students ask questions and giggle about which foriegners are cute. But the whole time you're wondering if any kids were changed, if they felt God touch them when you spoke, if they felt him as you have before. But, no answer comes and so you truck it back to Pattaya and get ready for an evening at the youth center. (this may be slightly over-dramatic, the kids we're quite happy when we left and it was a good experience but you still wonder)
Well, since that ended on a bit of an emo tone, I'll just finish this off with the top five things I miss since I'm feeling slightly homesick. I promise to make the next one more positive, maybe my top five favorites.
1. Gravy
2. Solid food
3. Independence
4. Skating bowls
5. Late night adventures
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