Today two exciting things happened:

1. WE RECEIVED A PACKAGE!!!! (Thanks Mom and Dad. We will have sugar to last us for quite some time, and the kids will love it too. Really, THANK YOU)

2. I made another friend! Her name is Alice. She is from Switzerland and spoke 4 languages, something I'm finding is quite common among Europeans/Asians-- I am struggling with 1 1/8 (the 1/8th being a probably too highly estimated amount of Thai that I know, but it's coming along!)

We spoke for a long time, because we were both waiting for a shop to open, so we chatted for about 3 hours, and it was nice. She is quite the historian! I learned a lot from her, and I got to listen to her cool accent!

We spent a significant portion of our time talking about religion. It was an interesting discussion about Jesus and aliens and giants.

You know, so many of the foreigners I have come across here in Thailand are *searching* for something, and they do not know what, but they have a lot of thoughts and ideas. I am finding a lot of false theologies and pseudo-Christian (cultish) grips on people, and a severe lack of knowledge of the word of God among people who are not Christian who claim to know the Bible. This makes me very sad, and makes me want to study the word even more. The biggest thing I have noticed regarding this is people have a tendency to read scripture and pick out the things that suit them, rather than take the Bible as a whole that points to Jesus in all things. 

I am so thankful to not be an aimless seeker. I am a daughter of God, redeemed from my wrongdoings by the blood of Christ. I have already found the meaning of life! Now it's focusing on the goal...

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Did I mention we have awesome neighbors? They took us on a tour :) There are a lot of pictures on facebook, but here are some highlights (compliments of Dtem and Dtoi *aka Kitichai*, they took all of the pictures):

Ice cream sandwiches. Please notice the normal looking BREAD
the ice cream is encompassed by.
Oh, Thailand. I love how literal you are.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil!

We went to another waterfall the following day with our friends Lucy and Jo (from Scotland, and the UK), but we didn't bring our camera! The waterfall was made out of limestone, and you could just climb right up it, hence the name "the sticky waterfalls". It really was amazing, not like anything I've seen or experienced in my entire life. 

Tomorrow: Zip-lining through the jungle. (We have a week off from school because it is a Thai holiday called SONG-KRAN, which I'll tell you more about when I have some pictures)