Just a Quick Note from Thailand

Not so much time to write, but I thought I'd write a quick update just to say I'm still so alive and well and things are great around here! In about an hour, I'm going with about 10 other interns (from Payap and the other church) to the border with Burma to get renewed visas! Yay! Please pray that our trip goes well without too many adventures!!
Okay so a few things that have been going on in the past week or so...

• I have now had several students in more than one class, and this past week I've had three very fun (but I'm not sure how educational : P) classes. All were totally unplanned beforehand, with extra people (people not signed up for that class)...One of them I taught with Casey, and the story is way too long to tell now, but it was interesting discussion, to say the least! And in the other two, I pretty much just had them tell stories, draw pictures, and have fun!
• A couple more fun questions/comments from people:
  Is your arm hair naturally blonde, or do you make it like that? (this person went on to tell me that she liked my arm hair...hmmmm)
  Are you afraid of getting fat? Several people have said this, and I'm not sure exactly what it means....I think I just won't ask!
• The first time I've ever heard someone decline playing leapfrog for religious reasons--Tum was wearing a Buddha icon around his neck and didn't want to disrespect that.
• Having an eight-year-old crazily energetic girl from church try to teach me colors and other random Thai words!
  
• My friend View decided to go jogging with me on Saturday...she speaks like 10 word of English and I speak like 5 words of Thai...it was an interesting experience, but pretty fun!
• I went to go see Harry Potter 5 last Wednesday! Yay! I had fun, but it was such a weird feeling after it was over--leaving the magical world of Hogwarts and realizing that I'm still in Thailand!
  
• Yesterday we went rafting on bamboo rafts! Fun, but a bit scary...I went on a raft with Bank, May, and Mark...and we crashed so many times, Bank's hand got bruised and really swollen, May was terrified the whole time because she can't swim, Mark got pulled under the water at one point, I saw the hugest centipede imaginable and had a lovely big spider crawling on me, and Bank's cell phone and camera died...but we all survived and had a good time!! : D
• Last Thursday we made Mexican food for cell group and some of the Thai people were complaining that our hot sauce was too spicy!!!
• Last night, after everyone left, we had to clean up a whole bunch of food and junk that people had just left in the kitchen...and then we were cleaning out the fridges...and then Casey and I were about to throw out the chocolate "icing" we had made earlier (it turned out to be pretty nasty because we didn't have powdered sugar), but instead of throwing it away we had a chocolate icing fight, making a huge mess, filling the building with the aroma of chocolate, and having a super good time!

Well, I think that's the highlights...maybe...I hope you all have a great week! Please keep praying for all of us and our friends! Especially pray for students who haven't really built relationships with people besides interns yet...pray that they can be friends with the Thai Christians and keep coming around even when we're all gone!