Switzerland's Best

Cheers for all your thoughts and prayers through these days. I'm doing much better and have talked out this motorcycle accident thing, and I agree Paula...perhaps God had me there to pray. And pray I did.

Anyway, things have gotten underway. I picked my friend Kyle up from the Phuket (pronounced 'pooh-ket') airport on Monday and began the oh-so-familiar work of mixing cement and carrying buckets. The Thai people were impressed with my know-how, and I am impressed with how my body is standing up under such strenuous work. Now, you must know, as I work I am brushing shoulders with Switzerland's best. When I first met this team, I simply knew them as a soccer team, but the more I get to know them, the more I find out that they truly are famous people. One of them is Miss Switzerland 2003/2004 (she is also half canadian...maybe you can google her...Bianca is her first name), one of the guys is Swizerland's boxing champion and I doubled him on my motorbike (he's so big and heavy...I was afraid), and the rest of the guys are semi-pro football players. They are getting loads of publicity for this, and are going to be on tv all over the place for coming here and working. I spend my days with these people. It's kind of strange, in an absolutely not strange way at all.

I don't know if I said anything about this before, but I was able to make my way to Thapthawan (where our team worked last year), and was able to spend a bit of time with my old friends. It was such a great reunion! I am going to go back and bring photos for them to have from last year...it has been so good to see them, and to reconnect with people.

Anyway, my time seems to be coming to a rapid close. Only 10 more days to go. It makes me incredibly sad to be leaving here, but I also know that I will be coming back. This is simply a "see you later".