Today was a good day

I finally got eight hours of sleep last night... My body is still trying to decide if that was a good thing or not. Funny how you can get more tired from resting...

We all lost four good friends today... Well two of them left yesterday to lead a trip and two left this morning to spend a weekend in Laos with some of the two weekers. The base and I will be very lonely without them. Even though my day was missing a good amount of laughing and pranks it was still an amazing day... I couldn't stop thinking about how blessed I am to be here, to be doing the things that I'm doing, meeting the people that I'm meeting and making the friends that I'm making.

The day started off by being left behind for the temple tour. Sounds bad, but it was a good thing in disguise. I got in some good alone time walking from the wrong temple to the right temple :)

The new students are super rad... smart, interested and there are twins!

Sarah (one of the counselors) had a great idea to get a coconut off one of the base trees. Initially we planned on climbing the tree ourselves, and after much thought we decided it would be better to let one of the locals do it. The idea turned into a coconut harvest (thanks to A's monkeyness)... After fishing 5 coconuts out of the pond we opened them up and filled two pitchers with coconut water and a plate full of meat... Zico's got nothing on these guys

The service project for village health today was awesome as well... We visited a clinic where the director put together a power point presentation for us. This could have easily been the most boring thing the students had ever suffered through but they stayed focused and asked really great questions. The nurses served us coffee, water and cookies.... Amazing hospitality

Then the director decided that we needed to visit a local organic farm... We didn't see any garden, but really enjoyed the pet birds. One in particular was all black with a yellow collar and a large yellow beak. It literally repeated everything we did... laughing, coughing, greeting us and singing to us... We spent at least 30 minutes hanging out with this guy.

Thai games was next, which is always a good time...

Fear factor... the kids eat gnarly stuff... crickets, worms, snake skin, dog, chicken fetus and fish paste... I'm very proud to say that the two girls that won are in my hong... Holla bamboo's!!

The night ended with a papaya face mask, an early bedtime and deep sleep... I'm not sure I ever want to leave...