OCF team in 2 local Lampang Newspapers

The recent OCF team ran programs in 3 Universities in Lampang as well as one college. The team had photos in two local Lampang Newspapers as well as the website of the college (see here: http://www.lcct.ac.th/office/english/photo_10_11/lighthouseactivities/index.htm).  The website photos include those of me trying to teach cricket.

Translation of the photos captions:  Bottom photo: English activities ... On 19th January 54 (Buddhist calender) which just past, the Rajaphat Suan Dusit University, Lampang joined with a university of Australia for activities practicing English conversation with 1st year students.  There were many different kinds of activities, to create fun amongst the students.  There were two periods of learning 10:30 - 12:00. 

Facebook helps the Student Night

 Facebook invitation for the Student Night at The Lighthouse

The OCF Australian Team at the Yonok Idol Final Event

Last night we had our Student Night with the help of the OCF Australia Team. We had a great time with lots of eating, talking, playing board games, Nitendo Wii, playing music and dancing! (I’m sure photos will be up on Facebook soon!) Normally we have no idea how many people will come to an event such as this. Sometimes we buy lots of food and not many people turn up. But this time we advertised the event on Facebook and we had 27 say that they were attending. In the end we had closer to 40 but we weren’t complaining. It was a great night and I think most people enjoyed themselves.

We were all sad to see the OCF team leave this afternoon. They made lots of friends in Lampang in their two weeks here and worked very hard. They are all certainly welcome to come back.

OCF Australia Team in Lampang

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 Yonok University, Lampang with the OCF Australian Team

 Tomoko our Japanese Teammates demonstrates making Sushi (what else!)

Teaching guitar

We are into the first week of the OCF Australia Short-term mission in Lampang. Here are some photos from this afternoon where we are running a Yonok Idol (a.k.a American Idol) competition and cooking classes. So far things are going well but as with all short-term teams in Thailand a lot of last minute planning.

Broken nose photo

Well, Lisa wanted a photo taken for posterity reasons, so I guess she wouldn’t mind posting this photo which was taken last night. The cast came off this morning so you won’t be seeing her with it today. We had a bit of a scare last night when she had taken the cast off before going to the shopping centre. When we returned to the car we couldn’t find the cast and her followup appointment was early next morning! We had already got in trouble with the doctor while in the hospital for accidentally removing the gauze in her nose (and not telling the nurses until the next day!) and we thought “oh, no”, he is going to think that she is even worse a patient. Fortunately we found it and it wasn’t broken. Lisa feels a bit wary around the children right now. The Dr has stressed that her nose can be easily broken if hit again and to take care the children don’t hit her nose. In the last couple of days the children have accidentally hit or bumped into her nose twice!

We were a little hesitant about going into the public hospital here in Lampang (we normally go to the private hospital) but generally it has been a good experience and Lisa’s nose looks normal so she’s happy. I don’t think we’ll be forgotten to quickly as they rarely have foreigners as patients.