It is finished!

Here is the team as our Thai friends say goodbye to us at the bus station in Chiang Mai. We will miss our friends and we are thankful for the many blessings that God gave us throughout our seven weeks in Thailand. We are thanksful for all your prayers and support.

On our way home.....

We have been traveling since noon on July 28th.... We left ChiangMai by bus.. (10 hrs). We rented a van to take us to the airport. We stayed up most of the night and checked into our flight at 2:30AM.... (If you are ever traveling with Micronesians - it seems that people in many countries do not know that Micronesians do not need US Visas..... it slowed us down but they eventually figured it out.) We flew from Bangkok to Tokyo. I was actually able to sleep most of the trip.... This is VERY unusual for me. We will board our flight in Tokyo around 5:30pm local time and arrive in Guam at 2AM on July 3oth.

Maejo University - Chiang Mai

The team has spent much of our time here hanging out and meeting new friends during our six weeks here. During the Student's Holiday break we took a break to pose near the sign for a picture.

Please pray for the students of Maejo and our team as we finish our work here. A number of the students now have the Swine Flu. Many people wear face masks. Pray for all our health and safety.

A night of Dumplings

Although most of the people that we meet and have become friends with are Thai, we also met two Chinese ladies who are studying Tourism at Maejo University. They asked to come over and make Dumplings for us. There is a lot of work which goes into chopping and preparing all the ingredients. So many of us got involved in the preparation. We invited some other students and staff and before we knew it we had an impromtu party. It was really a lot of fun.

Phoebe's perfectly beautiful dumpling. (Mine did not look at nice.)

Even "K" helped out.

Rosa show Ceci what to do.

Phoebe cuts the mushrooms.

General Updates

Here is just some news..... sorry the updates have been slow .... my laptop died and I have had trouble downloading new pictures.

1. Erten had the bandage removed from his hand. It looks good but since he has not used it... it is stiff and he needs to do exercises to get it back to full usage but we have already seen great progress in a couple of days.

2. We have passed the half way mark. In fact I believe we have two and a half weeks left. Time is quickly passing.

3. Today another mission team arrived. They are staying with us. Ladies in one house. Men in another. Up until last week our team stayed in one house together. There will be some adjusting but we are looking forward to getting to know our new friends. They are Korean but the come from California. Another team arrives from China at the beginning of next week.

4. Today we are on holiday. Actually it a Buddhist holiday and schools are closed. We have spent time with the Lord and praying over the last two days and today we have a day off. Hooray!

5. Every one seems to be doing well over all. Continue to pray for unity and homesickness as the time gets longer.

Home of the Cowboys

As we are in Chiang Mai, most of our time is spent on the campus of Maejo University. Interestingly enough, it is the "Home of the Cowboys". There are cowboys everywhere on campus and "cowboy shirts and hats" in the student store. Apparently the president went to school in Arkansas.

Guam Booth

One of our projects that we did while in Thailand was a "Guam Booth" we made samples of Guam (and American food) including Chocolate chip cookies, potato salad (Chuukese style), fruit salad, coconut candy, and some kind of Chuukese soup with coconut milk and dough balls.

Kalvin and Pai were serving food to people sitting in the cafeteria.

People looked at many pictures from Guam and the Micronesian islands. Many people have never heard of Guam before.

Meluat shows some students the map of Micronesia.

A sample for you to taste.