Trip to the Market

Sorry all that our weekly blog has been a little late! It has been a little busy with our English Convention last weekend. Our English convention was amazing! We felt it had come at the perfect time! After a couple of weeks, the full realization of how challenging this language really is starts to hit you. So to attend the English Convention where we met so many other need greaters from all around the world was very encouraging. Some who, like us, have been here only for a week or a month to some who have been here six or seven years!! The newbies with their enthusiasm to start their adventures to the encouragement to stick it out from the long timeess. The parts on serving where the need is greater and learning a new language all had special significance. One special pioneer who served in Nicaragua who now is serving in Thailand said, 'Jehovah helped me to make the change, to move clear across the planet, from one second language to another, and to not just help me get through the drastic changes, but to ENJOY them.' This comment we really took to heart. So with renewed determination to put into practice the various suggestions to make this move a success, we started week three. 

Since this week we are still handing out invitations to the a Thai Convention we thankfully could keep practicing our presentations from last week. Of course because we were so great at our presentations last week we were upgraded to a much longer and detailed one this week! Well, actually it was because we would say our two lines, hand them the tract, and then they would just stare at us and the tract blankly like, "whaaat?" So seeing a need to be better understood, we asked for a little more help with our presentations, which did result in their lengthening by quite a bit, but also in a bit better understanding on the householders part! One day, a small success will be when we don't need to read our presentations straight off the page! 

On one of our outings we came across a pretty little park where the locals seem to spend weekends laying about the shores of the river. We think you can even rent little mats to lay on, and they have ladies going about selling bags of bread to feed the pigeons, which the locals were buying! It impressed us how clean these parks are, the city seems to take pride in maintaining this little patch of tranquil greenery.


This week we went to Chatuchak Weekend Market. With roughly 35 acres of market stalls, it is one of the worlds largest markets. We spent about 4 hours in the market and felt like we only saw a small corner. But we only live about 20 min. from this particular market so we can always go exploring another day. Great place to get souvenirs mostly. They had a lot of knock-off purses and watches, beautiful ceramics and artwork, lovely handmade scented oils and soaps, and other odds and ends. 


Bethi was brave enough to let a thai women play with strands of her hair using pots of coloured gel. The results were surprisingly cool and we found ourselves walking away with a small box of 8 colours that we can place on selected strands and wash out the next day. Also, a good place to try some different foods catered to locals and foreigners alike, our favourites being the mango sticky rice and the coconut ice cream served in its shell paired along with the water. 













It was a challenge trying to meet up with people, some we just found randomly along the way and we tried to stick together like glue because it would be an impossibility to find each other again. Although with the help of a map we were able to find our way out of the maze at the end of the day.

One last thing we wanted to mention was that each of our blog posts are from the three of us, each contributing photos, or a few paragraphs. Stay tuned for more posts and photos from the 3 Intrepid Travellers!