Making Connections

This is how Lizzie and I get around.  I'm really good at being the passenger in back

One of the things I love that has been going on since before I arrived in Thailand are connections.  First it was connections on email.  Then I arrived and put faces to names.  Now I meet new people and get to know those I've met even better. I spent this Saturday shopping with one of the vice principals who was gracious enough to volunteer to take me to the store when I mentioned the difficulties of loading stuff up on a motor scooter.  Lizzie and I have loaded up lots of stuff but its challenging as stuff gets bigger.  Since we are settling in to our house and buying stuff like dishes and supplies, we need to go to the store more.  So I spent a few hours with my boss getting stuff and having lunch.  Lunch was interesting as we ate at KFC but didn't have the usual fried chicken.  We both decided to go with chicken and rice covered with green curry.  The chicken itself was fried with a bit of spicyness to it.  The whole thing was served on a normal plate with silverware and our sodas were served in glasses.  Nothing disposable except the napkin wanna be.
Saturday I also experienced having someone else do my laundry.  Lizzie and I discovered that there is no coin laundry super close like we had thought.  There is a laundry service place.  So I took my laundry there and they told me to come back the next day at the same time.  I arrived today to have my laundry clean, folded and possibly ironed.  It costs me about $5. I might do that again.  They charge by the kilo.

I spent Saturday night having dinner and drinks with several ladies most of whom I work with and we were hosted by Su-one of our coworkers.   Its fun being able to hang out with people away from work and talk about non work stuff.  It was actually my second night with coworkers as Lizzie and I were invited to dinner by coworker couple-Laura and Mike and their family.  I'm loving the eating out life.

Today at church, we had a Canadian guest speaker-Florilee who spoke on dream and deserts.  I was able to talk more with her after church as I was invited to join my pastor's family and her for lunch.  She was very encouraging and even prayed for me at one point.  Another connection!