Biking, Teaching, Touring, Laughing

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Last night it rained all night and into the morning which means that today is a nice cool day.  I can sit outside and not sweat.  It feels so good, and I'm very grateful for the rain though it means snakes will come during the night.  Let's just hope they stay clear of our bathroom.

Last weekend was one of the best.  We headed down to a beautiful place called Sukothai.  Part of it is an old ancient city with ruins of old temples, buildings, and Buddha statues.  We all rented bikes and rode around the city all day long.  This resulted in sunburns (sorry Mom), awful tan lines, a heat stroke for G, and tons and tons of fun.  One thing that made it less fun was getting road burn on my leg that doesn't have the burn.  This means that standing isn't very comfortable, and also being at Sukothai in the heat with a fresh wound meant little baby flies sitting on that wound.  Gross.  But everything turned out fine, and it was still a lot of fun.

Sukothai

Everything is going great.  I love it hear.  Teaching English is getting easier.  Now on Fridays we teach for about 5 hours at the school.  The older kids are a lot of fun to teach, but the younger ones are a little harder especially because the Thai teachers give them to us all at once (about 25 kids) for two hours. We're hoping that in the future we will only teach three hours a day instead of five, we'll see what happens.

On Sunday G got heat stroke so we didn't think that taking the trucks home would be a good idea.  We waited until a man from the ward was able to take us home in his car.  My goodness he is the funniest Thai person I've ever met.  He's also not a very good driver.  We were driving around trying to find the road that takes us to Doi Saket when he starts driving behind this big grocery store.  G and I ask him where we are going and in his heavy accent he replies, "I don't know?"  We all started laughing and laughing.  Next thing we know he's pulling out onto this very fast road.  In about 2 seconds he crosses three lanes and cuts somebody off.  That car swerved around us and speed up ahead.  Very calmly he says, "Wow.  He was mad."  After we finally got on our way to Doi Saket he was more cautious.  Or as he would say "I have cautious."  It was great.  So great.  I love it here and I can't believe that I have less than two months left. It's crazy. It feels like yesterday I was stepping off the plane in Bangkok so excited to get up to the foundation and start working.  And now I'm here, doing just that.  I have to remind myself that this will all soon be gone.  And I'll miss the cicadas that hurt your ears, the frogs that can get so loud I can't sleep, and the meals where I wonder what in the world I'm eating.  But most of all I'll miss the children.  I'll miss playing ninja attack with them (Now they're so good it's impossible to beat them) and having arm wrestles with boys and getting sore arms the next days.  They are all wonderful people, and I hope that some how, in some way, my being here will have meant something to them.

Fa, Me, G, Kam.

All the kids before going to school.