Make shift arrangements

Our temporary dining table (no seat for me yet)

It has been over a week since we moved to Lampang and we are slowly sarting to settle in. That said, we still don't have a dining table (or chairs), lounge or anything in the lounge room for that matter. We have beds and a fridge (no stove) so we have enough to live in our house. We don't have a washing machine yet, so we are taking everything to laundry.

Buying virtually everything for the house has been really tiring work as we first have to find the shops selling the things we are looking for.

Moving Again

We're packing to move again! This will be our 4th move in 2 years. We are so looking forward to being able to settle down. We'll be glad to be moving away from Lopburi with the barking dogs which wake us up during the middle of the night or very early morning. We pray that at the place we move to we will be able to sleep through the night and that it won't be worse than what we have now.

Car Upgrade

From this ...

To this ...

We have upgraded our car as our old was was getting a bit tight especially for long road trips to and from Lampang. It is a about 5 years old, a 2003 Isuzu Adventure. It is a manual car (our first) and a disiel engine too. It means that we can take vistors in our car without having to take all our car seats out each time.

The house John West rejected in Lampang

We looked at about a dozen houses for rent in our recent trip to Lampang. This was the best of the lot. We really liked the house, but it was a bit too nice unfortunately. We do not know what group of people we will seek to reach in Lampang and a house like this may exclude all but the high class of Lampang. At 15,000 baht a month (AU$ 100 per week), it is very cheap by Australian standards. We eventually decided on a house which was 6,000 baht per month (AU$50 per week). Our house is in town, whereas this house was a bit out of town.
A very enticing aspect of the above house was that it had a club house with these pools and an air-conditioned gym! It would have been a very comfortable missionary life, but not to be for the moment.