Picnic at Lake Huay Tung Tao

Picnic at Lake Huay Tung Tao
On the last day of class, we took an excursion to the lake. Beautiful!

The Cooks

The Cooks
my students making somtam (spicy papaya salad). it was VERY spicy

Time to EAT

Time to EAT
sticky rice, spicy papaya salad, fried chicken and chili paste. YUM!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

oriental orientatin'...

well, it's been a few days now, and we've gotten a little more familiar with chiang mai. shirley townley (school of frontier media director) has been so warm and helpful showin' us the major hot spots in town. we went to the YWAM chiang mai office yesterday for the first time. we were pleasantly surprised to see an old friend there...Naret! actually, we saw him earlier at Central, a supermall, where he snuck up on us. the mall has a gym with weights and treadmills (which is good, since we haven't been gettin' much exercise).

needless to say, the food here is SOOOO amazing! as i type, i'm digesting some pork skewers from street vendors i had for dinner. just the other day we had a breakfast of pork buns and yogurt from one of countless seven elevens, too!

we've managed to get a few thank you postcards (thought they'd be a nice touch!) done. we mailed 'em today. also visited Doi Suthep, a temple at the highest point in chiang mai! finally, we're startin' a collection of bootleg DVDs (just 2 so far) ;)

our cell phone #: 011 66 8 01241223

6 comments:

ben bonk said...

sweet pictures -- keep postin' them. bootleg dvd's, huh?

O-157 said...

hey(encyclo)pedyia,

how r u doing? hopefully, everything is good so far. i wish i could be in thailand right now.

Peter and Lydia Hong said...

yup, booties! doin' well here! it's lydia's first day of classes! wish you could be here, too, bro! come visit with danny in the winter!

O-157 said...

i wish i could visit in the winter, but the way American economy is working right now, it's quite impossible to get there. air plane ticket alone is $3000.

Sue said...

Thanks for your note. It was good to hear from you & read your blog. What a wonderful God adventure you are taking. Keep in touch. Love Sue

CinciParks said...

Peter & Lydia...
Great to check out your blog! Thanks for sending the link. By the way, we had a baby girl on June 5th: Mia Grace. We'll send some picture links soon. Can't wait to hear more about Thailand!
-Al, Melissa, Alexis & Mia