Under the Weather

So Christin and I woke up after getting a GOOD 2 hours of sleep...maybe! We coughed our heads off all night and just woke up feeling like crap. Of course, the one day we feel bad the BTS trains were "delayed" so it took us FOREVER to get to school and we did alot of unnecessary standing around. This picture is from our office of the boys in the morning standing for their national anthem and then they do exercises. It's like a 30 minute process and we have a huge glass overlooking them so I love watching. Everyone...including people walking down the street, cars, everyone....stops while the school plays the national anthem. The boys are so cute all singing it at once in front of our building! As soon as we got to work our supervisor Chris saw us and sent us to get medicine immediatly cause he said everyone had been getting this cold virus thats going around and it only gets worse...so we had to hop BACK on the BTS and we spent $30 at Boots getting perscriptions. We headed back to school, taught one class, and they sent us home for the day. We layed around and skyped/stalked people from school (LOVE OUR NEW BIG BROTHERS!!) and it made me miss them. Such a fun week this is at Lee University!! We took a 3 or 4 hour nap then got up for dinner. Every day we are marveled at how big this city really is, living here and getting in routine we sometimes forget how cool and big it is. We sat outside awhile tonight just marveling at everything going on and the beauty of the buildings and decorations. Asians sure know how to make malls/sidewalks/whatever look stunning. This second picture is a wall with water running down it and the picture doesn't do it justice cause the whole place is lit up with stairs and a live band playing nearby. I hate taking pictures because you can't capture everything, it just really doesn't do it justice! Christin and I always get our little 7 baht ice cream cone from McDonalds after dinner, and tonight we just sat on the stairs and looked around and soaked it all in. We wanted to go see Avatar in 3D Imax but they had false advertisement about the price and we were mad so we just decided not to. Plus we need to lay around and rest tonight! I love skype, its so fun to get to see and talk to people from home! It's crazy because within 1 hour I skyped my Epsilon grandbig, big, little, and grand little. I love that purple. I wish you all could see Christin and I sitting here now listening to this band practice in the lobby area where we stay looking super rough and listneing to them practice the same song over and over and over for two hours!! Every night they do this. SO ANNOYING. Along those same lines...we have a bird outside of our apartment. Every night, every evening, and every morning it chirps "who-o" in a rising tone (and super loud). Have you ever seen Failure to Launch? Well thats us...wanting to sit and wait for it with a BB gun lol. This trip couldn't be going more perfect. I know all I talk about is Christin on this thing, but thats because our office is together and we room together. I love the other three girls with us...we all mesh so well...I wish I would have known them better these last 2 years at Lee. BUT this trip is making up for all that time passed becuase we spend everyday together!! lol. So we work at "Bangkok Christian College" which is a 1-12 boys school, although 95% of the teachers and students are buddhist, there are still bible verses around campus. On our building as we walk in is the last picture. If I wasn't teaching and didn't want visible tattoos I would totally get this verse in the Thai script you see above it tattooed somewhere. Mumsey, Fatha, calm down, I'm not going to do it lol. But Thai script is so pretty...and after the little things that have stressed me out this week there couldn't have been a better verse for me to ponder on as we walked into work. I love it.