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It’ll be a quick recap though, and with some photos.I have been so busy since school has started back up. I have a part time job at the INTA office. I do random things around the office, from maintaining the school’s website to organizing boxes and files to speaking Japanese to doing my homework.

Hockey is my new favorite thing in the entire world. I love the Thrashers and have (in two game) become a pretty good fan, if I do say so myself. We had really, really good seats at the last game, when we played the Buffalo Sabres. We lost, but that was after overtime and penalty shots. It was an amazing game. I’m going again for the Florida game, and I’m pretty excited already.

We had amazing seats for the Sabres game!

P.S. I have auburn hair now, but it has started to lighten up. I’m not even sure if you can tell in this picture.

CCF went on a retreat to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This was my 2nd time there in 1 week because I drove up there the weekend before to film an announcement video about the retreat. By that I mean that we left Atlanta at 2 a.m. got to Gatlinburg around 6 a.m. filmed some stuff, drove back, took the wrong route and ended up in my hometown (go figure, I was driving), my mom bought us lunch, and then we ended up back in Atlanta around 2:30 p.m. No, I didn’t sleep during that. Anyway, the retreat was so much fun because it involves lots of mullets, ridiculous facial hair, high school letter jackets, cigar smoking, but most importantly, all of the other CCFs and SNOW! Yes, that’s right, kids! All of Team Thailand was together and there was SNOW! Could a weekend get any better than that? No, sir.

Snow!

More snow!

I bought a (Product) Red shirt today. You should too. What else have I been up to? I’ve been applying for internships, spending time at CCF and tons of other things. I’m planning on going to Juarez, Mexico for spring break to build houses with Casas por Cristo. You should come with me. It’ll be really great. You know what’s really cool? It’s that Kristy and I have gotten to hang out and do things like go watch future doctors that also play instruments have a jazz concert at Emory University and then go to the Sundial bar at the Westin hotel. Good fun.

Alright, now that that’s done, hopefully I’ll be updating more often.

I’m back at school, and I’ve been experimenting with the design of this site. More later…

Everything has been going wonderfully here in Thailand! Last week was our Thanksgiving Grapejam. We had a really great turnout and dinner was amazing! We had turkey, mashed potatos, pies, cassaroles, and so much more. Everyone loved it. We also made turkey hands. It was really good fun!
Our new activities have been really popular as well. Badminton Club has had around 10 or so Thai students every Monday night, and the Music Club performed this week at Grapejam. Fun on Campus is now on Wednesdays, and we’ve been meeting tons of new people! It’s right before Cafe English, so a lot of our new friends go from one to the other, spending all afternoon with us! We had 17 people at Cafe English today!
This past weekend was our Cow Yai Retreat to Khao Yai National Park. We had over 40 people attend. It was a great trip - we hiked to waterfalls, played games, had skits, testimonies, a devotional, and it was some of our Thai friends’ first time roasting marshmallows! We were also attacked by leeches, but it just made it more of an adventure, and a great thing to parody during the skits. It was a great chance to spend time with our friends and to make new ones!
We recently made a great new friend, Kaijae. What’s great about Kaijae is that we met here last Wednesday at Fun on Campus and have spent everyday with her since then! She brought 6 or 7 of her friends to Met Angun, or Thursday night bible study, signed up for the retreat with her wonderful friend, Ja, and brought 6 or 7 first-timers to Grapejam this week (it was her first time as well)!
Speaking of this week’s Grapejam, it was amazing! We had almost 40 Thai students, a record since we’ve been here, and a ton of first-timers! They all came to F.O.C. and Cafe English today as well. It’s really great to see so many new friends get so excited about our activities!
P.S.
New photos here.

There are tons of new pictures (and about 200 more to come) on my flickr page! Please take a look and I’d love to here from you about them as well. I have about 3 and 1/2 weeks left. This has gone by so fast!