2nd day of Mission Trip

23 Nov 06

In the morning Ps Sien-The Ranong Full Gospel Church Pastor brought us to the Jeti. The Jeti very smelly... The Thai teachers went with us to Koh Lhao Island by boat. Their names are Neng, Boi, and 2 ladies I forgot their names already... Saw Myanmar and Burma on the way to the island. Before we land...whoa the Moken children rush out to the jeti with their smiling faces... so cute! Felt so welcome by them.

The boat we sat on (the first day).

Mum protecting herself with the pink shield from the watery darts, Carene and Cathy posing to take pics, me looking at them, Rach smiling at the camera.

Saw so many boats called Siam Johnathan
(meaning: "Ah-Jon!! siam! siam! siam!")

There was this new church building where the kids have their daily sunday schools. Last year didn't have that new building. When the door of that church opened... all of them ran in shouting "Yaaayyyy!!...."They arrange all the chairs so fast sia... straight away come in arrage already. They are so young and are so kuai. Not like my church's Sunday School kids... no initiative to arrange the chairs and not excited to come for Sunday School. We gave each of them name tags so we can call them by name. There's a small, lil, tiny girl whose name is Malaysia... cool ha? She loves to be carried and loves attention. If not she will cry. At the island the mothers leave the younger child for the older child to take care. So some of the children there got not much love from their parents. The children really take good care of their younger sibs. Some bout 8 yrs old to 10 yrs old carried their lil sibs when they cry, wipe nose cendol for them and wipe it on the window pane, door, wall.... eeewww...cannot tahan. Really touched by their careness for their sibs.

their houses , fisherman boats and doggie!!

Us

Learning their sunday school action songs

The children praying. Kuaileh...

Game thay played. Who loose kena powder on the face.

First they have their Praise and Worship with Neng as their guitarist. We teached the kids how to make paper tambourine. They like it very much! Then Cathy, Rach and me taught them a few tambourine steps. They all enjoyed it! Since I was the only one who didn't make paper tambourine and the only one who brought a real tambourine to that island... I played the real one and everybody else played the paper tambourine with beans in it. So kekok.

The kids playing the paper tambourine they had made.

Aunty Chiew Hong taught them to wash hands before eating. After lunch the kids shampoo themselves and.... jump into the sea...-dirty brown sea which equals to not bathing at all. After "bath" they brush their teeth! With clean water. Got improvement already. Last time they didn't bathe or brush teeth one. Last year the misson team taught them to brush teeth and they still practice it. Thanks to the Thai teachers who always do their job and keep an eye on the children. They still wear the same dirty clothes after they bathe...so we decided that we bring the old clothes for them the next day. We took the tuk-tuk back to the hotel. Aunty Esther forget to bring the stool back also called the "throne".(we use to climb in and out of the boat to prevent us from getting wet.)She left it at the Jeti. For dinner we went to eat at mamak stall again. I ate noodle soup, pulut rice 4 dessert(very nice) :)and all 10 of us share a bowl a Tong Shui with frog eggs inside. We bought a red stool to replace the green stool that was lost after dinner. Aunty Esther very funnyla...

Shampooing

Washing clothes

The kids brushing their teeth. (clean water)

The "frog eggs" (it only looks like frog eggs, not real ones)