FISHING

Today (21.jan.09)I had one of the best days in my life. Pi Tom came to pick me up on his motorbike. We went to pi Pi’s house to eat lunch before meeting the rest of the boys at pi Gjå’s house. From there we went past villages, rice fields, palms, bamboo cabins, rivers, on a small road filled with red African soil, over bamboo bridges, past all kinds of animals, surrounded by beautiful nature, I felt like coming home. We stopped by the riverside and jumped into the water. We went down the stream, and tried to catch fishes with our hands. For maybe two hours I didn’t catch a single fish. But the boys were so excited that I wanted to join that it didn’t matter. They made me stick my arm into deep holes, and told me afterwards that there was either fish, snakes or crabs in the holes… They also picked all kinds of different things from the trees along the riverside, and gave me to eat. I told them to pray for me, that I would catch a fish, and suddenly I started to catch fishes every time I put my hands down in the brown water. I even managed to catch the long fish that was the hardest to catch. We were in the river all day long. I am just getting more and more amazed about God’s wonderful creation. What a creator! In the evening we went back to pi Gjå’s house to make dinner together. I had my first hot shower since I came to Thailand. We cocked, laughed, ate, sang together and told stories to each other. What a wonderful day. I have really got some good friends here in Fang, and it’s so sad we’re leaving to Chiang Mai on Saturday.