Cute Children

The children are so cute in the village .. they sang for us before we went to bed.

Chock- A--Doodle- Doo

After we hiked all day Saturday we spent the night with a hill tribe from Burma. We slept in a hut. It was so cool and we were gently awakened by the sound of roosters crowing in the morning. In the hill tribe this little boy let me hold his pet rooster it was so nice and gentle. The boy was cleaning his beak and the rooster did not mind.

An amazing weekend !!!

This weekend we went hiking up to a hill tribe to stay the night with them. We rode elephants and did bamboo rafting. It was really fun. Here is a picture of how tan my feet got and the other foot is my professor's. He is the king of weird tans. Looks like I am catching up.

Barack Obama is the Democratic Presidential Nominee

I know that this has nothing to do with my trip to Thailand... well I guess it does a little. But I am so happy!!! I just found out about 5 minutes ago and it is the best news I have heard all week. Barack Obama is the democratic nominee. Yeah!!!

Weekends are fun!!

In Thailand every weekend is so crazy we are always so busy. During the week we just teach from 8-3:30 and go home and hang out with our neighbors. Teaching is really exhausting. But when the weekend comes we are go go go. On Friday we had one of our professors come watch and film one of our classes. I was so nervous but luckily they came late and missed the class. We ended up role playing with the class the same lesson for the camera. That day we were at school until 5!!!! because our ride home had a meeting so... Friday night was pretty uneventful Internet in Sangampeng and dinner with our neighbors. On Saturday we went to the Seik Temple and learned about their religion... It was very interesting.We even got to take the sacrament with them... then we went to Dio Sutep where we had BANANA WAFFLES.... WOW I love them. We went to a jade factory after that and then got pizza. I have not had American food in almost 2 weeks. The slippery pizza sliding down my throat was so refreshing. Then we went home. On Sunday we went to church. I have not talked about the church here in my blog but all I have to say is that it is amazing....

Loodeee!!!!

This is one of my favorite things in Thailand.. Lodee I can really describe it to the fullness of it's deliciousness but believe me it's amazing. It's almost like a crispy crepe with condensed milk and sugar. It is soo good. They also have the most amazing fruit here. In America I never really cared for mangos but here they are mind blowingly delicious. Sam also has found one of the most delicious drinks it is a pineapple smoothie. It is so good and the pineapple is so sweet. Another thing they have here is a banana waffle.. it's like a corn dog but instead of corn bread and hot dog, it is banana and waffle mmmmmm

Our home away from home

This is a picture of our neighbors that take such good care of us.. The mom is so sweet and an amazing women. She is so tiny but I always see her around the yard doing CRAZY manual labor.. like shoveling cement for hours and never complaining. She is also a devote vegan and very devoted to her faith. she is such an inspiration. The father is so cute. He is so little and is always cracking jokes. Run is their daughter who we hang out with pretty much every day she is 20. She is leaving to go back to her university soon and I am very sad. I am very sad.But it will help me with my Thai because she translated so me and her parents can speak. I have been working at my Thai and I know some words and key phrases it is a really hard language.