The Village

OK so I got to come back to the city because Brian and I have to get our visas extended for 30 more days. We went to the immigrations office today and they gave us all the paperwork. Tomorrow we'll turn it in and hopefully be allowed to stay til December (then Indonesia!). But the past week in the village has been really awesome. We are in a Karen village (one of the hill tribes in Thailand), so a lot of the villagers don't even speak Thai! Communication can get frustrating but we have a great translator who speaks Karen. Some villagers came by and sold us some of clothing and things that they made by hand. So we got some really nice stuff. We have a house in the village for ourselves and the church is nearby. It's on the side of a mountain so they can't even drive cars down there or else they would get stuck. Yesterday Brian and I actually had to go help push someone who tried to drive down and got their truck stuck in the mud. I've been getting a lot of video done lately, which is realllllly good because I've felt behind up until this point. Now that I'm getting caught up I feel less stressed and I'm enjoying myself more. OH YEAH...yesterday we got to harvest rice! We went to the rice fields with some villagers and helped them harvest. It was really cool. I didn't stay the whole time because I went back to edit videos but it was fun for the time that I stayed. I'll be sure to post pictures when I can. I'm in a little internet cafe right now so I'm not using my computer to post pics. I'm not sure when the next time I'll be able to post is but so far so good in this village! Miss you all, thanks for your feedback!