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Hi everyone, this is a post from the other day. Sorry for not posting lately. We’ve been quite busy.

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Chiang Mai is booked. We are headed to the north of Thailand from April 11-21 for Songkrah!!! Chaing Mai is Thailand’s second largest city, Bangkok being the first. John warned us that there will be thick haze over the city while we are there. The cause of this is a combination of dust and smoke from the burning off of the rice fields near the city. We have been also told that it is nearly impossible to stay dry during the five days festival of Songkrah. We are stoked and we can’t wait to purchase water guns and join in the activity.
We started teaching the children from south of Thailand today. The children affected by the tsunami. They were a blast, so energetic and genuinely interested in learning. It was really refreshing.
Laos and Burma are hopefully going to be visited during our holiday! We would really like to visit the UNESCO heritage site in Laos. It is a village of temples dating as far back as the 1300’s. I’m not sure of the name right now. Jodie found some books about Burma and Thailand upstairs in the library. Mind you, most of them are from the 80’s but still worth skimming through to do some research.
We got caught in the rain today. I think it’s the second time we’ve seen rain since we’ve been here.
Jodie and I washed some of our laundry by hand tonight. We had a trust bucked and scrub brush. Sitting on a little stool scrubbing at each piece. One thing this experience did offer up was a chance for one just moment to appreciate the time and effort that women in the developing world put into the routine chore.
Men eating grasshoppers. Not my idea of a good time, but I got to watch as two adult men chilling out by a nearby window munching on covered grasshoppers.
Duck Duck Goose has no age limit. While children in Canada would refer to this as a baby game, the children here at Mercy are intrigued and obsessed with it. The older girls at mercy 3 ages 11-16 were requesting the game at recreation today. I guess it is just classic, much like the Chicken Dance.