Homemade bread and movies...

It's amazing what brings back that "homey" feeling: tonight my roommate, Jessica, made homemade white bread. It smelled the entire house up with the luscious and lovely yeasty smell. Oh it was wonderful! It is like driving past the Mrs. Baird's Bread factory on the trip from Fort Worth to Waco...good memories of many family trips!! We are all eating homemade bread toasty warm with melted butter on it and drinking hot milk tea (a Thai thing) and watching A Good Year. It is so wonderful being with friends, now more like family, hanging out, just being.

Some updates: Jessica and I are looking at buying a car together, which would be about $750 each. It would help out a lot with us being able to get around whenever we need to. It would end the long trips on public transportation to the grocery store coming home with huge buckets full of stuff and getting laughed at by the Thais who pretty much are humored by our very existence since we stick out so drastically. We could go downtown whenever we want instead of having to be there in the early afternoon so we can actually get a ride there. It would make a huge difference in our lives. But, I didn't raise the extra funds for that...so I'm putting the word out...if you feel led to give, the address and info is on the main blog page. I would greatly appreciate it, and am trusting God to provide. All my leaders here feel it's a good thing, and have a lot of peace about it as do Jessica and I.

I cannot believe that September is almost over...seems like I've been here forever and that my world could never be the same regardless of where I live, but then there are times that feel like I've only been here a second or two. I am taking Thai as part of my school schedule and have three classes a week with a lovely teacher, Kruu Dtum. She laughs at Jessica and I quite a bit, but enjoys our learning styles (I hope). I can now say "Sawatdii Kaa," "Sabaaydiima kaa," "Khopkhun kaa," and the responses. Basically, I can say hi, how are you, good, i'm good, thanks, see you later! I am learning my numbers too. It's really funny when you try to speak to a Thai person, the guy at the post office told me, "Oh you speak so clearly for a ferong. Good job...you speak thai well." I felt so proud of myself, but it is like a little kid that learns to say words, everyone gets excited and encourages them. That is what is happening with me.

This past week was busy. Every night we, the volunteers, had an engagement. Tuesday night - had dinner at the Haynes house - homemade roasted chicken, potatoes, carrots, and a sweet pumpkin roll. Wednesday night - the Penningtons picked us up and we went to a German restaurant, and I had Cordon Bleu, mashed potatoes, and salad (amazing)! Thursday night - the Fish's invited us over for meatloaf, mashed potatoes, broccoli, and sweet tea and IT ROCKED MY WORLD!!! Then Friday night was Mexican dinner night with the Tubbs. Kay, the owner of Kay's Burritto Casa (as you can see in the picture below) had been to Chiang Mai to get the needed stuff to make margaritas and they were delicious!! It was a wonderful night to finish off a wonderful week!!! Then Jessica and I, in addition to the Fox and Fransiscus families all ate at Hamburger #1 tonight for dinner - a lovely cheeseburger and french fries to end the week with...ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!!

Love you all...check out the prayer requests that I added to my blog...if you want to know how to pray for me!!