Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Grasshoppers
I ate grasshoppers for lunch today. While I was eating the grasshoppers, I was thinking to myself, grasshoppers taste good but eating them just seems wrong.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
What's going on and the Youth Conference
Hello again. For months, I wondered why I haven't posted regular, creative, insightful commentary on my life in Thailand. I like writing and I keep a personal journal that I haven't missed a week in. So why is this blog any different? Why? Because I don't have regular access to the internet.
In this day and age of social updates on facebook, twitter, myspace, blogspot, and the likes, it's easy to write down the thought or idea that just popped into your head. That is, if you have internet access. Believe me, I have things I want to share daily but the internet where I live is not regularly available. Then, once I do get on the internet, I'll sit at the computer, staring at the blogspot "new post" page trying to remember everything I wanted to say. It's more frustrating than helpful.
As a treat, I have included pictures of the Youth Development conference the group I'm a member of hosted during the first week of September.
I had to lead an activity in which participants broke into groups of four and had to lay on their backs with their feet facing in. I would then take a bucket of water and place it on their feet. The object of the activity was to have everyone in the group take their shoes off without spilling any of the water in the bucket.
We had the kids all paint their own designs on the conference t-shirt. Then, we had the conference participants cheer for their favorite designs.
This was our main conference room. All of the youth that took part in the conference are sitting down listening to a presentation.
I was supposed to do an activity in which students had to sit down, link arms, and then stand up using teamwork, but instead I decided to sing karaoke. The boy in front was the first and last person to volunteer to sing. He stole the show. Everyone in the background are volunteers who sang backup.
The opening ceremony was a red carpet affair and I was the host. We had paparazzi, a video camera for broadcasting, and EVERYTHING!
We ended one night with impromptu skits in which the volunteers stood in front of everyone and the audience shouted out a scene for us to act. This scene was, "Sumo." My diaper fit well but my opponents diaper kept falling off.
I was working, I swear. One of the activities I was in charge of was having students build card houses.
The proud winner of the t-shirt competition holds his design up for everyone to see. Pretty eh?
Just a couple happy faces.
We play a game throughout the three days of the conference in which you can put a clothespin on someone outside of the meeting room and if they walk into the meeting room with it still attached to them, they have to dance in front of everyone. I'm usually pretty good about checking my person, but someone got me in that spot I can't quite reach on my back.
A lovely panorama of the conference participants.
In this day and age of social updates on facebook, twitter, myspace, blogspot, and the likes, it's easy to write down the thought or idea that just popped into your head. That is, if you have internet access. Believe me, I have things I want to share daily but the internet where I live is not regularly available. Then, once I do get on the internet, I'll sit at the computer, staring at the blogspot "new post" page trying to remember everything I wanted to say. It's more frustrating than helpful.
As a treat, I have included pictures of the Youth Development conference the group I'm a member of hosted during the first week of September.
I had to lead an activity in which participants broke into groups of four and had to lay on their backs with their feet facing in. I would then take a bucket of water and place it on their feet. The object of the activity was to have everyone in the group take their shoes off without spilling any of the water in the bucket.
We had the kids all paint their own designs on the conference t-shirt. Then, we had the conference participants cheer for their favorite designs.
This was our main conference room. All of the youth that took part in the conference are sitting down listening to a presentation.
I was supposed to do an activity in which students had to sit down, link arms, and then stand up using teamwork, but instead I decided to sing karaoke. The boy in front was the first and last person to volunteer to sing. He stole the show. Everyone in the background are volunteers who sang backup.
The opening ceremony was a red carpet affair and I was the host. We had paparazzi, a video camera for broadcasting, and EVERYTHING!
We ended one night with impromptu skits in which the volunteers stood in front of everyone and the audience shouted out a scene for us to act. This scene was, "Sumo." My diaper fit well but my opponents diaper kept falling off.
I was working, I swear. One of the activities I was in charge of was having students build card houses.
The proud winner of the t-shirt competition holds his design up for everyone to see. Pretty eh?
Just a couple happy faces.
We play a game throughout the three days of the conference in which you can put a clothespin on someone outside of the meeting room and if they walk into the meeting room with it still attached to them, they have to dance in front of everyone. I'm usually pretty good about checking my person, but someone got me in that spot I can't quite reach on my back.
A lovely panorama of the conference participants.
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