Losing weight

So I bought a $4 exercise ball from Walmart before we left, and we have broke it out and began our serious lose-weight-cycle. We take turns doing squats, sit ups, pushups, etc with the ball...and I can already tell I'm trimming down just a little. I love it, its good to expend a little energy at the end of the day! A poster with exercises came with the ball and I thought I should bring it too lol. When I pulled it out of my suitcase I realized I had nothing to hang it on the wall with, so after a minute of thinking and then it happened. I saw some pads sitting in the corner of the room...I mean adhesives are all the same, right? I would have loved to see our maid's face when she came to clean today and saw our poster hung up by pads, so trashy. Last night while we were working out we turned our air conditioner on high, and like dummies we left it on high all night long :( We both woke up in the middle of the night coughing our heads off, runny noses, and dry mouths. Christin has been coming down with a cold or cough from the pollution for a few days, today was my first drowsy day :( I get tickled at how everyone here wears masks but I'm seriously thinking about getting my own. While we were riding in the car to get our hair done the other day I was looking around and the pollution is literally so bad it is ALWAYS smoggy just above the tall buildings everywhere. Some days when its really hot I feel like I have trouble breathing just walking to the BTS station, its like I have been smoking for 10 years now. No bueno. The guys advised us to get some Vitamin C and it would clear right up. School was pretty slow today, but I've been reading A Change of Heart, but Jodi Pocci and its really good. I have to make myself stop reading it to go to class sometimes. I would make my parents proud right now because this is the second book I've read this trip and I HATE READING :) I was NOT blessed with their love for art and literature! I feel like we are in a routine since we have to teach five days a week, but it never fails that I see new things everyday, I love it! The cute little buddy (i put a picture of carrying the books a few blogs ago) sits beside the teachers desk and today while Jayson was teaching Science and I sat at the desk he just stared at me the entire hour. Its funny though cause while he's working I stare at him. HE'S SO FREAKING CUTE. I kept looking over at him and he would griiiiiiin and get back to work, he's the first kid I just fell in love with here. But because we are all "falangs" (what they call us, it means foreigner, they casually switch L and R sounds alot lol) we people watch, and they watch us right back. It's really fun but somtimes it gets kinda awkward. Okay so one thing that I haven't really indulged but I've fully embraced the idea of is STREET FOOD!! Everywhere you walk there are little vendors along the sidewalks with fruit, meat/pork on a stick, sticky rice, sushi....everything. It is the cheapest way to eat and it smells DELICIOUS! I've been very cautious because its easy to get sick eating that food, I mean you never know if their hands are clean or if the foods fresh before they cook it. But I HAVE started eating it a little bit since I've been here a few weeks and my body has built up some bacteria here. The second picture is one of our highschool students getting a snack by the school afterwards at one of the street food stands. It's really a cool concept, of course my chubby cheeks wants America to pick up the idea lol. Can you imagine a las mas taco stand by the school? YES PLEASE. So this bottom picture is of one of my 3rd grade buddies I passed watching soccer after school. Doesn't he just melt you're heart? Okay Epsilon and Lee University folk....doesn't he look like an Asian Drew Smith (Tori and Jamie's bestfriend)??????? hahahah i kept thinking...he reminds me of someone!! Then as I was taking the picture it hit me. It's crazy that I'll be walking down these huge streets in the middle of BANGKOK and think I see someone from home, even though the person is obviously Asian!! They still look similar to people back home, and I'm not crazy, it's happened to all the girls. So I just found out that where we are staying is actually a boys dormatory for colleges here in Bangkok lol. We met some of the guys tonight after dinner and played a little pick up game of soccer then basketball (you know which one we dominated, and its NOT soccer). One guys name is Duo, he goes to college down the road, and speaks very well english. He was an exchange student for three years in Mississippi. I'm telling you, we meet the neatest people EVERYDAY! After we played around with them awhile we walked some parts of the streets around where we're staying we haven't seen yet. It was more out of the city where the locals hang out, very cool place to see. Hopefully we'll eat at a little outside dinner area there this week! Tomorrow is 80 baht movies night ($2.50) so I probably won't make it back in time to blog tomorrow! Sorry Mumsey, going to have to cheat on you again and watch Sherlock Holmes and all the newest movies without you!!! Right before we leave here we are treating to ourselves is to go watch Alice In Wonderland (which I thought was Allison Wonderland till I got to college lol) in 3d Imax because it comes out the week before we leave! It's going to be amazing.