So we've been helping out in a hospital in Phuket, teaching English. Just try to imagine the kind of things people ask you to help them say properly when they work in a hospital. Today I taught "Please remove your underwear" as well as ... well ... you don't want to know the other ones for today. Let's just say yesterday's "You don't actually need to pee, you have a catheter in" is tame by comparison. My second conversation today revolved around popular culture as we discussed both the strange Thai show we saw last night (it looked like an entire hour of a man sitting in a computer chair while a woman cowered in the corner behind him ... apparently it's very popular ... maybe if I spoke the language I would understand ...) as well as Anne of Green Gables! They wanted to know why people would visit different places in Canada and I had a great time trying to explain why people would go to PEI to visit the home of a person who never actually existed.
This afternoon I taught the difference between being in, on, at, or under a car. My last class never arrived, so I had a short conversation about a car-trunk market and relationships with a random dude ...
The hospital treats us so well with so much food and water and appreciation. Our days here make me feel both extremely tired and very refreshed.
Tomorrow we leave for our mid-trip retreat. We're very excited for a break as our past few days have been extremely full albeit rewarding.
I love watching the kids in the neighbourhood get less shy as we play with them more. I love that the rain held off the exact right amount of time last night. I also love that a little boy gave me flowers yesterday.
Miss you all!
(or ... some of you anyway ...)
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