Thursday (11/27) Thanksgiving Day:

No school today because there were no English classes for me to go to. I hung around the house cleaning and doing laundry to prepare for my trip. That night I was to get on a bus with P' Pat to Chonburi. In Chonburi some of the youth have been going down there to teach and work on helping out the Baha'i community down there so I was to go down with them this weekend. So around 7pm Pat came over and Golee, Jah, Pat, Pat and I went to Big C to get some food for the trip.
We caught the bus around 9pm. It was a really nice bus. Pat had got us VIP tickets so it was really comfortable to sleep. So I got to sleep the whole way. We arrived in Chonburi (south of Yasothon and on the beach) at 6 am. We took my first tuk-tuk ride to the house where I met Bah Needa (owner of the house we were staying in ) and P'Orn. We wnt to bed as soon as we were showered where we'd be sleeping.
I didn't celebrate Thanksgiving at all. The only food I had all day was yellow noodles. :( I missed family and home but I was really excited for the weekend ahead.

Friday (11/28):

After a few hours of sleep we woke up and ate a bit. Then P'Orn, Pat and I walked down to the sea side. It was really cool to see the ocean finally. The area we went to was a fishing market where there were tons of boats and fisherman and shrimp! There was a pier we walked on and took a bunch of pictures. It was a really windy day; we took a lot of goofy pictures. After that we had noodles at a little shop among all the fisherman. We had noodles with guess what!? SEAFOOD. It wasn't m favorite but I ate it including the squid tentacles and all.
We walked back to the house and I took a small nap. Then we walked to an elementary school not far from the house. We went to talk to the kids and to try to get some of them interested in coming to Junior Youth classes. We were thrown in front of a big crowd of kids once we were there and we played games with them. Then we did the same thing in front of another class. We had a good time playing games with the kids. The director of the school was very supportive of us getting the kids to join our group which was really nice to see.
After the school we caught a bus to the big market in Chonburi. We ate Pad Thai and had coconut drinks. We walked around the market for the rest of the evening. I bought a couple of things although there was tons of stuff I wanted to buy! I was pretty tired by the end of the day though so when we got back to the house I crashed.

Saturday (11/29):

Later after I had gone to sleep the evening before all the rest of the youth showed up from Bangkok. Warren, FM, Arm, Jen, Lang, Jit, Sita, and P'Tim were all there now. So we ate breakfast and said some prayers before going to pick up the kids from the school around 9am. Pat, Jit and I went to get the kids and we were surprised to find that quite a few of them had shown up for the class. We walked back with them to the house where the class would be held.
We sang songs, played games, said prayers and got to know each other. I think the kids had a lot of fun. P'Tim explained to them a bit about the class and most of them seemed interested enough to come back a second time for the class. We were all happy to get such a good outcome. That night we split up into groups to do some home visits but I stayed with FM and P'Orn at the house to help clean up and cook food. That night we had a new Baha'i come over and she brought her non-Baha'i friend. P'Tim did Anna's Presentation with them and then we ate. It was pretty relaxed night. After they left I taught all the youth “This is a spoon” game. They went nuts over it! Haha we couldn't play too long thought because we were being really loud and it was pretty late already.

Sunday (11/30):

Ate breakfast with everyone and soon the JY group came and Ahjahn Mark (Bah Needa's husband) went to teach them. We had a short presentation on how to talk to parents of the JY group members and to tell them why the group is important and good for their child. So we all sat around for that and then we worked on learning some songs including “Armed” by Devon Gundry. I thought we didn't sound half bad.. For lunch we had “som tam”. Pretty good but after being sick off of it I think it's kinda been ruined for me. :(
After lunch all the youth went to the beach and we just ran around and had a good time taking pictures and stuff. We sat around and sang and then I taught them the “secret signs” game. We had a lot of fun with that. It took them a bit to understand how to play, especially FM but once we got the hang of it they were obsessed! =D Soon it was time to head back to the house.
When we got back all the youth from Bangkok had to leave to catch their bus back. Pat and I were the only ones left. We hung around until 8pm teaching the adults “Armed” and just talking. Bah Needa took me to the bus station where I would be catching the bus back to Yaso alone. They left me there and I waited at the bus station by myself for about 40 mins. That was a little akward. Finally around 9 pm the bus came and I found out that I would be sitting next to this really creepy looking guy. I won't lie and say I wasn't just a bit nervous. Turns out the bus ride in general was not very pleasurable. I had an uncomfortable seat and couldn't really get decent sleep. Also the bus kept stopping for some reason. I never knew why and it made me a little uneasy. I was worried too that in the morning I would miss my stop for Yasothon. I called Golee and she talked to one of the guys on the bus for me.
I got to Yaso around 7:30 am. I was so tired!! Golee picked me up and I was happy to go back to my bed and sleep for the rast of the morning.