Dear Charles #9,
God has been teaching me a lot of cool stuff lately. its hard to keep it all under control in my brain.
i knew that i would change here, but i didnt think that i would feel it. i feel my thoughts shifting to different things, i feel my attitude becoming different in different situations, i feel myself acting differently to adults, when i meet people, and in the way i understand and learn. they're not bad differences, theyre just...different. i think the word im looking for is, perspective? my perspective is different with certain things.
the thing that has come up time and time again is worship. it started a few weeks ago when i visited a thai church with a friend of mine. all the songs were in thai, along with the message. so during worship the band started playing a song, whose tune i recognized. it turned out to be..."days of elijah". so i stood there..the only farang in the whole place belting the song in english while everyone else sang it in thai. my friend leaned into me to hear it and asked me to teach her the english later on. it hit me during the middle of the chorus, that worship is one of the most beautiful things in the world. at least to me. here was two teenage girls, singing the same song, crying out to the lord, but in different languages.
its not as if i never thought about other cultures praising God in their own way, but it was the first time i had really experienced it first time like that. it gave me goose-bumps. to God its the same...its his children delighting in him, worshipping him, and praising his name. it doesnt matter what language, or how you stand, or dance, its just...worship.
it came up a few other times in the following days with different services i went to, hearing thai people worshipping, and praying. i just love hearing it, and even though i cant understand it fully..being content that God is being given the glory. its such a wonderful feeling on contentment.

other then that, my thai is coming along pretty good. my thai teacher Pi Phorn (pronounced paun) is very proud of me :) she said i have a natural speaking ability that she rarely sees in her students. so...you know, im pretty much the best. kyndra teaches me little phrases too, commonly used things for average conversation, so does Pi Lute, the owner of the coffee shop we spend a lot of our time at. i so wish you could meet him, he is so great.

im getting anxious for my mom and brother to get here. im so excited for them so just see where i live, and experience my life here. eat the food and go to the same places. oooo im getting all 'tummy nervous'. the good kind...right mom? :)

i'll write more later about how stuff is at school...but im teaching a class in a few minutes and dont have time to write it all right now. until next time then -anna