August 7th 8th, 9th

We spent the past few days with some incredible people in Noh bo Thailand.  First of all our favorite person in this entire half of the world is Kara.  She has been an incredible host and we are so grateful to her.  If I would have known all along that we would have her with us for most of our journey I would have had a lot less anxiety before getting here.  She will forever be part of our family.  It will be hard to say goodbye to her in a couple of days.

Next is Jabwa.  He is one of the teachers here with Kara at Grace Garden and he takes care of a lot of things like making sure we have cooks to make our meals during our last couple of days of class with the students from Noh Bo Academy.  He brought us tea and snacks last night when Kara went to take the students back to the boarding house and he sat with us and taught us some Karen words.  Karen which is pronounced like (Kah-Rin) is the language/ethnicity of a lot of the refugees here from Burma.  He is so happy all of the time and always a wonderful friendly face.

We spent the 7th and 8th teaching the kids from the Noh Bo academy about the 7 mindsets.  For those of you who don't know, they are the 7 mindsets that the 300 most happy and successful people share.

They are ways of thinking to help achieve your dreams no matter who you are or where you are living.

These kids were so bright and so much fun to be around.  Caiden, Syler and Zenna did such an awesome job helping by leading games and helping the students learning some new computer skills.

Today, August 9th, we went to Grace Boarding and picked up 15 kids, piled them in the back of the truck with us and went an hour down the road to Blessed Home Orphanage.  These kids are so beautiful and it was such a pleasure to meet and hang out with all of them for the day.  The kids played games together and we were invited to have dinner with them.  

Tomorrow if it's not raining we hope to climb to the top of the mountain behind us to the Pagoda.  Then it is back to Mae Sot for one more evening before we move on to Phuket.