The Unexpected

Last Friday night, Nick (Team Leader) and I were at the Lighthouse as usual for our International Student evening. The two weeks before that no one turned up so I was not that hopeful. I prayed for people to come but it was 7:15pm (15 minutes after the starting time of 7pm) and no one had come. Mentally I was packing up and preparing to go home in another 15 minutes. But then one of the Chinese exchange students, Sonya turned up. The Chinese students hadn't been at the Lighthouse for a couple of months, but Nick had bumped into them at the market earlier in the week.

Later in the evening, close to 8pm, two Thai uni students from the local Rajaphat University turned up. "Tee" had been once to the International Evening many months ago and brought along a friend. If Sonya hadn't come, we probably would have gone home before these two arrived.

So I left thankful to God for answering prayer and bringing students when we weren't expecting any.


Later this morning I'm off to the train station for a 7 hour train journey to Lopburi where I will start my level 2 language exams. I feel so unprepared. Didn't have much time to study this week, with discussions with the landlord about reducing the rent while we were away (they agreed - praise God!), North Thailand Team meetings in Chiang Mai and other things. Surprusingly, this will be my first long train trip in Thailand. Not that I'll be looking at the scenary much - I'll be desperately trying to review as much Thai as possible. Also, I had to change my train ticket a couple of days ago. I didn't realise that the exam was over two days until my team leader queried why I was only staying one day in Lopburi.