Bearing Christmas Part 1

Today was the Christmas Party at Bearing, the second of the two slum areas we work at each Sunday. Bearing is a far different community than Ja Rurat, where we were last week. It is more spread out and there is a mixture of bare shacks and fairly nice homes. Make no mistake, though, Bearing is a poor community and the kids here don't have much.


For a long time, we called this community Sukhumvit Soi 107, after the closest somewhat major street. Recently, though, the team has taken to calling the area Bearing, after the name of the side street where we hold English classes each week and where we had today's party.

Thanee and Ah Jan Vee setting up.

The evenings in Bangkok have been pretty cool recently, but today was a scorcher under a cloudless sky. Ting got creative to deal with the sun... So did Son. I told him he looked like Yasser Arafat.

The kids start to arrive.