Liz is a Teacher Again

Well, our first couple days in Bangkok have been exciting. Aside from getting over our jet lag and sleep deprivation, exploring the city has been interesting to say the least. We have gotten used to the area we live in now, and can find just about anything we will need to survive. We have also found the MBK shopping area, which is an experience in itself.

Yesterday we went to Chinatown to see some sites. The area is remarkably different than the area we live in, consisting of mostly hardworking, blue collar immigrants in poor areas. We now know where anything metal or mechanical is made or repaired in Thailand. While we were in Chinatown we had the opportunity to see several Chinese temples and a 500 ton golden buddha.

While we were at the buddha we were invited to join an english class for children. We were asked many different questions about ourselves, what we thought of Thailand, and the USA. It was lots of fun and it was interesting to see Liz in front of a class... kids are kids, no matter what the country.

We haven't figured out how to get pictures from our camera to somewhere we can post online. We don't have inernet at our apartment, and none of the reasonably priced internet cafes have a method of getting the images... we'll keep looking though.