7:00 Wake up. Read Bible. Breakfast (Cereal) Club with Tim,
Matthew, Chels and Leslie. Laying out on the front porch gagging at when
Winston walks by (the dog!)
9:00 Hang around the house; make a few trips to 7eleven,
trip to the ocean, dance parties, naps, laundry, and episodes of Arrested
Development, whatever you can find to do really.
12:00 Lunch. Praying it was Pad Thai (never happened) or
Pineapple sweet sausage fried rice (only twice) no fail there is always a lot
of white rice.
1:00-4:00. Field Work every other day. All you need to know
is that I had a machete and made it out alive.
4:00 pile up in the back of the truck and drive down to the
ocean. Everyone runs in fully clothed. Some people walk on water, you know
typical afternoon. Pile back in the truck to get stuck in traffic for an hour
playing games like the band game or praying that dinner would be Pad Thai
(never happened)
5:30 Walk in, still wet, pile up rice and soup and eat on
the stool, as fast as you could. Run up stairs, shower either in a disco tech
(the light was similar to a strobe light) or in complete darkness (when it
finally died)
6:00 Team Time! Laying out on the balcony with my favorite
people. Laughing, reading the word, praying, eating Oreos, whatevs.
7:30 Worship starts. Everyone piled up in the common room,
try to get there early for a wall seat (when you have to sit on the floor all
the time getting a spot next to the wall is major!) Double bonus if you score a
pillow for your numb butt.
8:50 Run around, pee, change into jeans, grab your wallet,
pile in the truck roll out.
9:00 Police lights. Pull over. Clint tried to explain why he
has 15 females in the truck, that he was a taxi driver. Cop asks for a permit,
he says “they are my family” $500 Baht ticket
9:30 Get to Bangla street. Huddle with my team (Team Mali!)
Pray for the night, pray for each other, and get a move on.
9:35 Pass by hundreds of girls selling their bodies. Bump
into drunken men, old men, men of any kind looking around with sick desires and
broken spirits. Get bombarded with “Ping Pong Show” (which is not a game to
play in your spare time) girls pulling your arms into their bars and crippled
old ladies selling flowers on a necklace.
9:40 Head into a bar. Order a pineapple juice and tonic
water. Get out the game of connect four or Jackpot and start playing with one
of the girls. Strike up conversation, laugh, listen, and tell them they are
beautiful.
10:15 Head to another bar and do it all over again
10:45 Walk to another bar and do it all over again.
11:20 Walk back to the meeting point. Shoving your way
through more drunk old men, shaking out the smell of alcohol, smoke, looking
down to blind your eyes of all the girls dancing on poles. Holding back your
fist and biting your tongue when a man leaves a bar hand and hand with a young
Thai girl. Holding hands with Jasmin, Leyna and Shannon and saying to eachother
that God is good and we are not defeated.
11:30 Jasmin orders King sized fries, I grab the chicken
nuggets from Burger King and we pass back bags on our way back to the truck.
Midnightish – Back to SHE, regroup with everyone. Share
stories, shed tears, praise God and pray out the night.
1:00am – Head to bed, praising Jesus the day is over and asking Him for more tomorrow.
Love you all. xoxo
