I made it

well here I sit in a nice air conditioned internet cafe, right beside my good friend Reg. Our flight was uneventful but it was really cool to have personal TVs in each seat! And they have cameras facing forward and facing down, so we could watch the takeoff and landing (and anything else we were flying over). Vancouver to Narita (Tokyo) was filled completely, such that I was not sitting with my other team members, but Narita to Bankok was very empty so we each took a middle aisle and lay down and slept for most of the flight. Very cool.

Speaking of cool, Thailand is not. But we have an air conditioned hotel for now. We are currently in Bang Saen (Chonburi) which is an hour and a half east of Bankok. It is the same city we were in last August. We just had our orientation and a really neat meeting with Team 3 where they told us what to expect and how things work down there. It was really good. It was also the first time I had met some of my own team members. Currently I don't quite know who is on my team and who is on the previous team (usually the ones who act like they know what is going on seem to be from the previous team, and the ones who are kind of unsure about themselves right now are on my team :-). I was surprise to meet Mr. Harv Wiens (he was on team 3). For those of you who don't know, he was one of my teachers in high school. It was neat to see him again.

We have church from 4-6pm today which should be really good (and air conditioned). And then tomorrow afternoon we fly out to Phuket. That's all for now.

Jon

Getting Ready

As I write this, it is quarter to 4 in the morning (I was talking to Reg over in Thailand). Soon I will be off. I'm excited, but I don't know if it has really hit me yet. I'm actually going!! Well that's all I got for now. More to come when in Thailand (if I can get to an internet cafe).

Jon