August 12th of every year is a National Holiday here in Thailand as the Thai people celebrate H.M. the Queen’s birthday. This same day is also the day in which the Thai people celebrate Mother’s Day as they view Queen Sirikit to be the Mother of the Thai Nation. For the past few weeks we [...]
I’ve received numerous emails, Facebook messages and Twitter replies about all that has happened here in our new, fare city of Bangkok over the past several months. We appreciate all of your concern and prayers but I assure you we are doing just fine. There is still a LOT of unknowns having to do with [...]
Today I finished up yet another language exam. It’s hard to believe that I’ve now completed 8 of the 9 modules for language study here in Lopburi. It’s been a good couple of weeks. For this last module I actually studied outside of the language school with a “normal Thai guy” rather than a trained [...]
I had my language exam today. And overall, it went… …ok. It wasn’t awesome; although, I didn’t make a single mistake in reading and telling my two stories in Thai. But another part of the exam is to just explain how you would use these stories to teach other people about Christ. No problem, I [...]
More and more people are flocking to Thailand to experience and receive a famous form of tattooing. Recently CNN did a short video on why Yan tattoos are gaining popularity. (RSS readers click through to the website to watch the video) I’ve seen videos of the possession that can come from these tattoos, the chants [...]
I can’t give you much, but I can give you 20 seconds from our worship service this morning captured on my iPhone… How was your Sunday?
We’re going to start a new series of posts around here in order to share a bit more of Thai culture and customs with you. We’re quickly becoming quite used to many things that took us by surprise when we experienced them 4 years ago. As I sit here and think through the many “Thai” [...]
So, Sara and I have been learning to read and write in Thai as many of you already know. It’s been quite fun and quite exhausting at the same time. The Thai language continues to evade our grasp! Just when we think we have the hang of it, it jumps about 10 steps forward and [...]
Brook and Sara sing Thai from Michael Brook Sarver on Vimeo. After two months of language study in Lopburi, Thailand. Sara and I have finally learned enough Thai to sing a song together. This was for a special session in which all students come together to learn about Thai culture, beliefs, and customs… You can’t [...]
Sara and I had our language checks on Tuesday morning and with that finished up the first three modules of our study of the Thai language. Up until this point everything has been spelled in western phonetics so that we are able to learn to speak. Well, upon completing those modules we have now moved [...]
