A Day of Firsts

A couple Sundays ago, Tawm and I started a group for the "old teenagers", at least that's what I am calling it. It for anyone that is at least 13 years old up to people that are married but don't have children. Thais are different in that they don't groups like junior high, senior high and college and career. Thais are happy to hang out even though there is a big disparity in age. We meet every other Sunday afternoon for Bible study, prayer, worship and of course, games.
This past Sunday we decided to have fun by going bowling. We had 10 Thais go but Tawm couldn't bowl. Of the 9 Thais that were actually bowling, only one of them had ever been bowling before.
The bowling alleys are located on the fourth floor of one of Chiang Mai's shopping malls and in order to get there, one needs to take an elevator or escalator. As we were riding up in the elevator, one of the guys said to me that this was his first time he had ever been on an elevator. I am always reminding of how much we take some things for granted but the experiences of people here in Thailand.
When it came to the bowling part of the day. It was fun watching people trying to figure out how to get the pins down. One guy took about 5 or 6 frames before he got any pins down. By the third game, he was getting spares almost everytime. We were divided into three teams and when it was our turn to bowl, everyone counted to 3 and all three lanes had to throw the ball at the same time. It was so distracting but I am proud to say, my team finished in first place!! (A lot better than my diaper folding fiasco.)
Here's a pic of the winning team.