After Vietnam we headed back to Thailand and spent two weeks in Bangkok, volunteering with a Christian organisation called Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
We lived in this big house with a team of Thai volunteers, none of whom spoke much English at the start, but were all so friendly and quickly adopted us as part of their crew. They taught us some Thai phrases and all about their culture (like don't touch anyone's head or show the soles of your feet) and cooked up some amazing food. Such awesome guys and girls. Then every day we would go to the the local universities, hang out and talk to students about Jesus.
A team from South Korea also came to stay in the house and run some programs at the universities. They were also a bunch of complete legends and ran a Korean camp where we learnt some Korean, tried on the traditional clothes and ate some Kimchi, which is the ultimate Korean food!
Josh and me were put to work on the campuses, inviting students to come along despite knowing no Thai or Korean. It caused quite a stir, two white guys walking about the cafeteria trying to speak Thai, and people thought it was so hilarious that they came along.
We also got to go away one weekend with about 40 students for the annual "Jam Camp". Me and Josh (the 'farangs') ended up doing some drama, performing a traditional Thai dance and even did some preaching with a translator. Because of Josh’s beard all the Asians reckoned he looked like “someone from Bible”, so when he dressed up as Jesus for a skit everyone went wild!
We had such an amazing time getting to know the guys in Bangkok and seeing the real Thailand, not just the bit for tourists. Definitely one of the highlights of the trip, although eating rice for every meal (even breakfast) did some terrible things to my stomach....
Miss you guys!
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