A hop, skip and a jump and I am finally here! First of all, welcome to my blog. This is the first of hopefully many entries to share my experiences with you all as I spend the next month in Thailand. Some entries may have deep thoughts and others may be just to share about the monkey I saw or something like that. If I can figure out how to get pictures and video up I’ll do that too.
So far I don’t seem to be under too much jet-lag which is great because I’d rather be experiencing the Thai culture than sleeping my day away. I suppose sleeping almost eleven hours straight on my plane across the pacific and going to the 4th of July celebration here in Chiang Mai gave me reasons to stay up most of the day yesterday. While riding on the back of a motorcycle with my new friend Win driving, I thought I was going to die multiple times. Ok maybe not die, but my heart was beating faster than normal at least. Not because he was a bad driver, but completely the opposite. He was great, but motorcycles don’t exactly follow the lanes. My knees were within inches of cars multiple times on the trip, but he knew exactly what he was doing. I most likely won’t be taking one out while I’m here.
I don’t know what culture shock feels like so I can’t tell you if I’m going through it, but I can say that it is very different from home. Besides driving on the opposite side of the roads and the drivers sitting on the opposite side of the car, the sounds, smells and the sights are all different. I can’t wait to get out and experience it some more!
“The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants those who belong to Him to be brave and fearless. He Himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit. This is the testimony of the apostles and in particular of the representative, administrating Spirit. A Christian is fearless.”-Tertullian
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