Project 12: May

If you are wondering why you are reading ‘Project 12: May’ for the second time that is because I titled last month’s recap incorrectly. I have  no idea why but I also know no one commented or e-mailed me to let me know of the huge error I made. #thanksguys ;)

Anyways today I am officially recapping May! May was fun! It was our last month of summer break and we packed it full. By summer I must restate that it was a blazing 117 degrees, hot, sunny and I thought I was melting! But I didn’t. Dave did run a few times in that heat and I took an ac taxi home.

Ministry Updates:

Dave and I joined a small group at church. We are looking forward to getting plugged in and will actually be leading the group for June and July.

Classroom Preperations – I have slowly been putting my classroom together, studying curriculum and lesson planning. We have had in-service the last week of May and classes start on June 1^st! Dave and I got to help lead devotions for the teacher in-service meetings. We were thankful to be able to share from God’s Word with our fellow teachers. 

Prayer Requests: 

I will have 17 four year olds and only 1 of them knows English fluently. You all know I’ll need prayer for that! Specifically though please pray that the children will have a good foundation for English and that they will clearly understand The Gospel. 

For Dave as he runs the clinic and teaches. Please pray God will send Dave more patients. 

We are going to Bangkok on June 19^th for a visa run. 

Good Health – With rainy season approaching the mosquitos are approaching as well. They are known for giving Dengue fever which is coined ‘bone crushing disease’. We really don’t want to get this. Please pray for the health of the students and teachers as well. Oh and our bowels could always use some prayer. I’ll just leave it at that but seriously!

Fun events in May: 

11^th - Kyron came over to our house one evening. I took her to buy a bow, a journal and fun pens. We than had princess pasta for dinner, played hide and seek, and had a wonderful time!

12th – Received an e-mail congratulating us on our 2^nd 2^nd anniversary. Dave and I both completely forgot so we celebrated and went to Tony Roma’s (the 1^st American food chain here). We shared a burger and then both were glued to our phones because Tony’s is one of the best places for wifi in town. You know you are in Myanmar when you go on a date where good wifi exists.

13^th - 22^nd Tom and Elicia arrived to Yangon! I’ll have to share more later how we met but they finished their teaching contract in Korea and were traveling SE Asia and made Myanmar one of their stops.

I’ll just do a bullet point of what we did because if not this will be a novel:

*Ate a big bacon breakfast, toured school and the local market
*Took them to Shwedagon Paya, downtown Yangon tour, 999 Shan Noodle
*Yangon Circle Train, Bogyoke Market, Aung Mingalar Shan Noodle
*Toured Bagan together, had a scorpion join us for our dinner
*ebikes, tea cup shopping, bussed to Mandalay
*Mandalay Hill, World’s Largest book
*Ubein Bridge, our taxi driver ran over a dog on accident, which was disturbing.

Tom and Elicia left Mandalay on the 22^ndso Dave and I did a bit more sight seeing. We visited the Mandalay zoo which Dave and I both decided it was the best zoo we had been too because you can feed and get real close to all the animals.

They also had this hilarious bike! 

We toured Pyin Oo Lwin with the highlights being the amazing gardens they have up there, which we can thank the British for building them! Thank you Britain!!! They had this awesome tower:

 

 Restaurants: 

Top Left: Shan Noodles // Bottom Left: Vegetarian Indian Food // Bottom Right: Sticky Shan Noodles

Aung Mingalar Shan Noodle – A place to get a cheap bowl of Shan noodles. They were okay but a little too oily for us. Plus we really loved some of the other Shan Noodle restaruants around. 

Street Food – I am not a brave/ at anything off of the street kind of girl but we had guests this month and they helped me try some new street foods. We had a pancake and I don’t even know how to explain it but YUM! It was made from coconut batter, had melted brown sugar inside, shredded coconut and peanuts. So good! It also did not send me running to the bathroom later which is always a plus in my book.

Indian food at a restaurant and a street stall in Mandalay - Both were really tasty but they lose points for the soon bathroom run that followed… 

FatMan Steaks – Where they have huge ginormous delicious American burgers. Plus they have a big American flag hanging on the wall which makes me want to scream ‘I LOVE AMERICA!’ but everyone would think I was really weird. Living abroad makes you more patriotic though!

YaKunToast – A new restaurant right by us. They have really good tea! Dave ate a ‘cooked’ but runny egg which made his stomach hurt later (I warned him!). We also ate a grilled pb&j which sounds gross but was pretty good. 

Pizza Heaven – We ate here on Mother’s Day. Pizza is my Mom’s favorite. The pizza was good but not my favorite.

Rangoon Tea House – best tea place in Yangon! Plus the atmosphere is super nice and clean. 

Corriander Leaf – Okay technically we tried this last month but seriously they have some of the best Indian tandoori chicken I’ve ever had. If you haven’t had Indian food before you need to add that to your bucket list ASAP!

Harleys – A fast food joint with burgers and fries. We both voted it was better than McDonalds. That’s our standard in Myanmar you guys. #dontjudge

Books Read

Dave is clearly kicking my rear in the reading department. But that is ok! 

I finished reading the book of Jeremiah which was big for me! I struggled to get through that book. 

Dave read the following in April and May: 

Doce Mujeres Extrodanario – 240p. (Yes, this was in Spanish) 

Unlimiting God – 184p.

The wonderful Spirit Filled Life 240p. 

Worship the Christians Highest Occupation 280p.

 Jesus Among Other gods 145p

Not a fan (audio)

The Case for Faith (audio)

In the Grip of Grace (audio book)

Other Notable Events: 

Our market got paved! I know that doesn’t sound like a big deal but walking through the nasty dirty sludge verses cement is a big. big. deal. 

We took the Yangon Circle Line Train! It basically goes around the whole city and they have a station right by our house. We took it to downtown. The cost? $.30 for ac and $.20 for no ac.

I started the mini Polarid rainbow roll! Isn't it fun and colorful?

I also started Project Life! It took me a while to figure out where to print pictures that wouldn't charge me $1.00 per pictures. My new place charges 7 cents! 

AWESOME EXCITING I’M GOING TO JUMP UP AND DOWN NEWS:

David’s sister and her husband (Becky and Byron) and my parents all have purchased airplane tickets to come to Myanmar to see us! I’m so so so excited! They will be visiting back to back which means we will have visitors from August 18 – September 14! YIPEE!

That was May you guys! This post is long and took waaaay to long to compose but that's ok!

How was your May? What was your favorite thing that happened?