{"id":4150,"date":"2018-08-27T23:38:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2018-08-28T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T11:49:24","slug":"august-27th-thailand-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/2018\/08\/27\/august-27th-thailand-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"August 27th Thailand-My Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>First day of the Education Conference. \u00a0 There were about thirty attendees from several many different nations. \u00a0Breakfast was from 07:00 which I found to be very reasonable.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I met a brother from Fiji who knows Mosese from YWAM Tokyo. \u00a0Apparently they met at the same YWAM base in Fiji.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I also met another brother from Indonesia whom Rhonda had met previously at a different education event. \u00a0He comes from Malang where our Bi-Lingual DTS did their outreach.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I found a few chances to help with the set up tables and make name tags. \u00a0I even recruited a name tag buddy to help get it all done in time.<\/p>\n

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Rhonda jumped into everything and was in her element interacting with fellow educators.<\/p>\n

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Sharing experiences in education in groups of two.<\/p>\n

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Reporting on the groups sharing about what was important to them in starting schools.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the day Rhonda and I were able to go out and celebrate with a nice nice birthday meal. \u00a0The restaurant even gave us a 10% discount as it was my birthday. \u00a0What a nice way to end the day.<\/p>\n

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First day of the Education Conference. \u00a0 There were about thirty attendees from several many different nations. \u00a0Breakfast was from 07:00 which I found to be very reasonable. \u00a0I met a brother from Fiji who knows Mosese from YWAM Tokyo. \u00a0Apparently they met at the same YWAM base in Fiji. I also met another brother … Continue reading “August 27th Thailand-My Birthday!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nRea-14W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4225,"url":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/2018\/09\/02\/september-1st-bangkok\/","url_meta":{"origin":4150,"position":0},"title":"September 1st. 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