Today our team takes off and flys to Bangkok. Yes it's true. lol. I think I will randomly call people and laugh because I'm in Bangkok. Goes to show how mature Melissa is. lol ( Read more... )

wowzers. I have 2 weeks left in good ol' Thailand. I'm sad and happy about that. AHHH I just bought a picture for 1000 BAHT! :S It's a really sweet picture that I want to get mounted. SO I mean it's not too tragic! lol. It's just sad that the stuff I really like is so expensive. I could have like fed a village oh dear. I feel terrible now. FRICK ( Read more... )

There once were two girls who had the most beautiful blonde locks. It was long and flowing and perfect as it was; however, these two ladies decided to excentuate their beautiful blonde locks with a new look. They thought "wow wouldn't it be fun to come home from Thailand looking cool and stylish?" "I could look like Avril" one said, the other "I ( Read more... )

I just got back from another week in the villages. This time we went to 2 villages along the Burma boarder, both were close to Mae Sot. The time there was really eye opening. I don't have any idea what plans God has for me still, but I've been learning a lot about my passions and even my abilities. I went into the week completely stressed out. ( Read more... )

I think this journal is a waste. I'm sick of it. I'm in Thailand and more than anything I just want to enjoy this experience until it is over. I just spent an hour on the phone with Kristin who I miss and love dearly. I cannot wait until we are together doing our silly stupid crazy things that we manage to always do. :) Plus then I can meet this ( Read more... )

"I believe there is a hell to a delayed salvation because the tears that flow are tears of what was lost before you came to know God. Does he forgive your past? Yes, but sometimes you cannot forget it." Lee Strobel's book Case for Faith.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Ma Hung San - which is a Karen village, I'm pretty sure it's north of Chiang Mai - which means it will be chillie. As much as it is HOT here, I can notice how the temperature has cooled off since we've gotten here. We had some days of 40 at first and now they're about 25-30ish. I'm really excited to go into the villages. We ( Read more... )

Wow. Tonight was interesting. I ate frog legs, fish egg soup (in some weird tubes), squid (not rings!), fish balls (not testicles, just balls of fish)... and I feel somewhat proud of myself. Instead of retching I ate it and now my stomach kind of hurts BUT I ate it. lol. It really tasted good for the most part, my stomach has just been acting funny ( Read more... )

I don't really like my lis in thailand journal, so I'm just going to continue writing in this one instead. :) Today I went to a church service in Thai. Last week we went to a missionary church, so it was all in english and really not that exciting. I really wanted to experience the culture, especially the differences and similarities to how they ( Read more... )

Wow. I wanted to update this again instead of writing in my little paper journal because I think it's worth sharing. Yesterday was incredible. It was our scavenger hunt around Chiang Mai. In the morning we went to a museum and learned about the city then made these paper things all cut up lol. I don't think they have a name. or at least they didn ( Read more... )