Profound, I know but it makes me feel a little happy none the less. Yes, finally I am feeling better and set to happily resume my activities in Bangkok. As much as I hate doctors and even more so hospitals. My trip to the hospital the other night was a very good thing. Medical care here is government subsidized, so for a trip to the emergency room, lab tests, and medications the grand total came out to four dollars and seventeen cents. On top of that the staff always circumvented lines for me because I am farang. Try topping that in the States.

In all seriousness though there is a very clear double standard for the farang, sometimes it helps us, sometimes it costs a quite a bit of money. Its a strange experience to live in a place where you are not just a minority, you are more of a curiosity. When we get into real downtown Bangkok there is allot more diversity, but out hear in Rangsit, there are probably 20 white faces in a 3 mile radius and 11 of those are on my team. The rest are mostly German or Finnish. Which brings up the fact that its very hard getting used to not assuming that being Caucasian means speaking English.

We are going to Major tonight to watch Superman, so that should be allot of fun its looking like it will just be the team so it should be a good time for us all to hang out together and just relax. Ja is going to but she is mostly Grapevine staff. She has also become our Thai big sister, she is a Bangkok native that got involved with Grapevine through our church and is an indispensable help to us the "awkward and confused".

That's all for now but updates should be more regular that I am well again.