Ice cream, Elephants, and the World Cup :)

We've had another great week of teaching, and even more time spent hanging out with students outside of class. Here are some things from the week (or just random thoughts :)...

• I had an awesome ice cream "sandwich"--literally. It included gelatin squares, rice, coconut & strawberry ice cream topped with syrup..all put right on top of a roll of white bread--tasty!
• A couple of our friends have been gracious enough to cook for us a couple times this week. We had sookee Tuesday night--a soup with lots of meat & vegetables (squid, crab, chicken, cabbage, seaweed, etc.) with some other yummy flavorings :) Thursday evening they came over to our apartment and cooked geng keaw wan gai (green curry) and kai jeow (omelette) with rice...it was arroy mak! (very delicious!) Afterwards we had a fun time trying to sing some Thai songs :) We're pretty excited because we're hopefully going to cook for them next week (maybe spaghetti or breakfast for dinner :)
• It's become a pretty common occurrence to see an elephant walk by our apartment at least 3 nights a week (you can pay to feed them)...Pretty cool to be able to say we see elephants randomly walking down the street. I love Thailand!
• It's awesome to be in another country during the World Cup...seeing every restaurant playing the games on their TVs, World Cup apparel at the 7/11 convenience stores, country flags decorating the post office...and even better, some of the adevertisement trucks (which have loud speakers and drive through the city saying ads) playing the World Cup song...I find myself subconsciously singing it in my head basically every day, haha.
• Our team enjoyed going to the Mahasarakham museum with Pat and Yui yesterday. It was fun as they acted like tour guides meeting tourists and showing us around :) They're lots of fun to be with! At the museum, there are neat traditional Thai houses to see and a mini zoo--which includes deer! A special sight for Thais to see ;)

Today we'll be heading to Roi Et with a couple students, one of which is from there. We'll possibly be seeing a temple and just spending time looking around the city...I'm looking forward to it!

{Colossians 4:2-6}