Two Days On, One Day Off!

 This morning (Tuesday) I taught 5th and 6th grade, students that I've now had for 3 and 4 years.  All the faces were familiar and I remembered some of the names.  The 6th grade students at Noble Academy wrote letters to the students at Wat Klang and today I began sharing those letters.  I read the letter with the student and then helped them compose a response.  It worked quite well with the 5th grade but the 6th grade got a bit restless.
   Tomorrow all teachers go to the University for something so there is no school.  The teachers now speak English to me, the first couple of years they didn't let on that they knew any.  In fact the most fluent in English is not even the English teacher.  It may be because she is the youngest, 47.
   Mai and Gai are the Thai couple, with 3 children, who make their living  with a tuk-tuk (taxi).  Last year with money from Grace U. Lutheran and other friends in America we paid to have their tuk-tuk repaired after the flood.  When I told them the money was from a church and friends in America Gai burst into tears.
     2013 same song second verse!  Saturday when I arrived in Ayutthaya Mai and Gai met me at the mini-bus and took me to my house.  They were driving a different tuk-tuk which was rented.  Yesterday I learned that their tuk-tuk is in the shop for repairs.  Gai ask if she could borrow money from me to get it out and she'd repay me over the time I'm here.  I said my friends and a church in America would pay for it, and again, she burst into tears.  It's a great feeling to assist in restoring their means of making a living.

 The monk's path to nowhere.

 Framework on which new school will be built.

School, chapel and elevated walkway.  (Noble Academy students note the Buddhist temple.)
 
 Fractured English:  A road sign "City Limits, Produce Speed.