Thursday, August 27, 2009
Update
The story of my life continues. For some wonderful reason my other account receives e-mail but doesn't send any e-mails--don't ask me???? Today I created a new yahoo account. You can e-mail me at annbosha@yahoo.com If you would like to get my monthly updates you will need to send me an e-mail at this new account so I have your e-mail address. THANKS :)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Story of My Life!!
Where do I begin?? I now have a bank card that doesn't work, a shower that can not mix hot and cold water together to make warm water, a freezer that doesn't work, and the latest is an e-mail account! What is next??? If anyone still reads my blog you can no longer get in touch with me on annbnagy@hotmail.com. It is a long story but basically I can not change my password and have been blocked from the account. If you want to send me an e-mail please send it to anagy@mymailworld.com I am sad about my hotmail account because that is where all of my contacts are located! I am going to try to get it reinstated but I don't know how well that is going to work!
Sorry this is a feel sorry for me blog update! Today was a great day with students though. I ate lunch with some students at Sripatum today and then did a Bible study with 1 young lady who has not accepted Christ yet but is reading the Bible and wants to know more. God is good!
Sorry this is a feel sorry for me blog update! Today was a great day with students though. I ate lunch with some students at Sripatum today and then did a Bible study with 1 young lady who has not accepted Christ yet but is reading the Bible and wants to know more. God is good!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Welcome Back to the world of technology!!!
Yes- I finally have internet in my home!!! I got it on Friday and have been on the computer every night just trying to catch up. I have been up really late talking to friends and family on skype. It is so wonderful to re-connect with everyone!! I have really missed it! If you have skype and want to chat sometime my skype name is anninthailand
Things continue to be very busy! I am still teaching at Rangsit University on Monday and Tuesday and on Wed. and Thurs. I go to Sripatum University and tutor students or just eat lunch with them and hang out. I am also still having students over one time a week for "cell group". We changed our meeting day from Wed. nights to Monday nights and this past Monday there were 25 students here!
Now that the busy summer is over with I am going to go back to studying Thai once again. I will have a tutor on Friday morning from 8:30-10:00. I am looking forward to getting back into learning how to read and write Thai and also practicing conversational Thai. I am getting better at understanding what people are saying but I am still shy to speak because I think I won't say it correctly. I will need a lot of prayer as THAI is a VERY DIFFICULT LANGUAGE :)!
Well I think that is enough of an update for one post! i hope you are still reading! More exciting news to come :)
Things continue to be very busy! I am still teaching at Rangsit University on Monday and Tuesday and on Wed. and Thurs. I go to Sripatum University and tutor students or just eat lunch with them and hang out. I am also still having students over one time a week for "cell group". We changed our meeting day from Wed. nights to Monday nights and this past Monday there were 25 students here!
Now that the busy summer is over with I am going to go back to studying Thai once again. I will have a tutor on Friday morning from 8:30-10:00. I am looking forward to getting back into learning how to read and write Thai and also practicing conversational Thai. I am getting better at understanding what people are saying but I am still shy to speak because I think I won't say it correctly. I will need a lot of prayer as THAI is a VERY DIFFICULT LANGUAGE :)!
Well I think that is enough of an update for one post! i hope you are still reading! More exciting news to come :)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Fresh Starts
I have a bit of writer's block these days. I feel like I haven't written on this blog in so long that I don't even know what to write about. I hope that most of you have facebook and are able to see the pictures because it takes a lot of time to put them on my blog. I will put a few on here from this summer for those of you who don't have facebook and to give a quick look back at the summer work here.
Hopefully the pictures will speak for themselves.....
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Guests of a different culture
I have been living in my new house for a little over 2 months now. It has been a great blessing in many many ways. Every Wed. there are about 15-30 Thai students that come for "cell group" and almost every week-end 1 or more of my Thai friends come and stay the night. It has been a busy place. I even had some American friends come and stay for a few days. All of these guests are welcome and I love having them!
Unfortunately my house also has some unwelcomed guests. If I have never written this before can I just say that everything seems to come in much larger forms here in Thailand. For examples--roaches. The roaches are huge in this country. I have one that has decided to move into my home and I am scared to kill him because he is so big! The most recent unwelcomed guest is a rat (or maybe 2 or 3). I have actually only seen him 3 times but I know he is around because he leaves evidence. I have been trying to figure out how I am going to kill him. I have been given many suggestions but most of them I just can't do. The most ideal way would be for me to put out poison and he eats it and then he goes outside and dies. Doesn't that sound like the perfect plan??? I am afraid it won't be that easy.
If anyone has a great "American" way to kill a rat please let me know. I am up for any suggestions. I do have some workers coming tomorrow to close holes and such and maybe that will solve the problem and I won't have to kill him at all--we will see.
Living in a different culture has many surprises--some good and some not so good but it is just life!
Unfortunately my house also has some unwelcomed guests. If I have never written this before can I just say that everything seems to come in much larger forms here in Thailand. For examples--roaches. The roaches are huge in this country. I have one that has decided to move into my home and I am scared to kill him because he is so big! The most recent unwelcomed guest is a rat (or maybe 2 or 3). I have actually only seen him 3 times but I know he is around because he leaves evidence. I have been trying to figure out how I am going to kill him. I have been given many suggestions but most of them I just can't do. The most ideal way would be for me to put out poison and he eats it and then he goes outside and dies. Doesn't that sound like the perfect plan??? I am afraid it won't be that easy.
If anyone has a great "American" way to kill a rat please let me know. I am up for any suggestions. I do have some workers coming tomorrow to close holes and such and maybe that will solve the problem and I won't have to kill him at all--we will see.
Living in a different culture has many surprises--some good and some not so good but it is just life!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
I am alive :)
I hope that people are still reading my blog and haven't given up on me yet. It has been a very very busy summer!! I am currently writing this blog entry from Chiang Mai ( a city about 9 hours north of Bangkok). I will give a quick summary of the summer.
The Univ. students from America arrived in early June and then we immediately began work on 3 univ. campuses in Bangkok. At first I was busy taking all the American students around and spending days on the 2 different univ. campuses. I teach English 2 days a week at Rangsit University to chemistry students. It has been a lot of fun. I have a freshman class on Monday which has around 50 students and sophomores on Tuesday with only about 20 students. Tuesday is a much easier day but I enjoy both of the days. The rest of the week I spend at Sripatum Univ. tutoring students and just working to build relationships.
The first week-end in July we had an English camp in Pattaya. We had over 200 univ. students from the different campuses. It went really well. We had some students make decisions and many who are seeking to know more. I will be busy doing a lot of follow up in the month of August.
I came to Chiang Mai for 2 weeks of meetings the day after camp finished. I have enjoyed seeing a different part of the beautiful country of Thailand. The other day I went with some friends on an elephant trek through the countryside and also went white water rafting. It was a lot of fun! I am ready though to get back to Bangkok! Only a few more days of meetings left and then I return home!
I still don't have internet at my house yet but hope to have it up and running in August. I will try to be better at updating my blog so please keep reading. Pictures to come in the future!!
The Univ. students from America arrived in early June and then we immediately began work on 3 univ. campuses in Bangkok. At first I was busy taking all the American students around and spending days on the 2 different univ. campuses. I teach English 2 days a week at Rangsit University to chemistry students. It has been a lot of fun. I have a freshman class on Monday which has around 50 students and sophomores on Tuesday with only about 20 students. Tuesday is a much easier day but I enjoy both of the days. The rest of the week I spend at Sripatum Univ. tutoring students and just working to build relationships.
The first week-end in July we had an English camp in Pattaya. We had over 200 univ. students from the different campuses. It went really well. We had some students make decisions and many who are seeking to know more. I will be busy doing a lot of follow up in the month of August.
I came to Chiang Mai for 2 weeks of meetings the day after camp finished. I have enjoyed seeing a different part of the beautiful country of Thailand. The other day I went with some friends on an elephant trek through the countryside and also went white water rafting. It was a lot of fun! I am ready though to get back to Bangkok! Only a few more days of meetings left and then I return home!
I still don't have internet at my house yet but hope to have it up and running in August. I will try to be better at updating my blog so please keep reading. Pictures to come in the future!!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Busy, Busy, Busy
I have not updated my blog in a few weeks for many reasons. one of the reasons is because I do not have internet at my new house. I have been working hard to get it but everything is a process here and sometimes a long process. I am hoping to have it soon.
June has arrived which means the summer teams are arriving. We have 14 univ. students from America coming to work with us for June and July. It will be an exciting but very busy summer. I will have 9 of the American students working with me at 2 of the Thai universities. We will be teaching English, tutoring, and doing lots of programs at the universities and also off campus. I will be working 7 days a week and putting in long hours each day but am so excited about it. This is what I came here to do and it is finally time to get started doing it!!!
I will try to update from time to time when it is possible. I will also try to get some pictures of my new house up soon. I haven't taken any pictures inside yet. I am still working on the decorating part. The house is going to be great for ministry but it isn't fun to clean:) I will try to update again soon so keep reading:)!
June has arrived which means the summer teams are arriving. We have 14 univ. students from America coming to work with us for June and July. It will be an exciting but very busy summer. I will have 9 of the American students working with me at 2 of the Thai universities. We will be teaching English, tutoring, and doing lots of programs at the universities and also off campus. I will be working 7 days a week and putting in long hours each day but am so excited about it. This is what I came here to do and it is finally time to get started doing it!!!
I will try to update from time to time when it is possible. I will also try to get some pictures of my new house up soon. I haven't taken any pictures inside yet. I am still working on the decorating part. The house is going to be great for ministry but it isn't fun to clean:) I will try to update again soon so keep reading:)!
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