Children, Rice, Bamboo rafting, and elephant fleas.

It is Brad here. This weekend was pretty fantasic. We went to Mae Wong. It a village about 30 minutes from Chiang Mai. Right as we got there we ate lunch, then we began a sports camp. I played soccer till i couldn't breathe it was pure chaos in the Soccer session, but it was awesome. Some of those children are very good. My team beat Andy's team most of the time (just for the record). They fed us so much delicious food. I cant explain how much rice i ate. Anyways.. after the sports camp we said goodbye and we went to go bamboo rafting and Elephant riding. I must say that Thomas, Ekk and I had the most fun on our rafts. Thomas's camera is waterproof fso we took videos of us going through the rapids. It was so awesome. On one big drop (Thomoas was in front and i was in Back, which means Ekk was taking video from the middle).. so Thomas stuck his stick on the rock to puch us off so we didnt crash, well he pushed us off just fine but hjis stick got stuck and he lost it. So me, without even thinking about it dove foward and grab his stick quickly and handed it back to him just in time to avoid another colollision as well. We did excellent steering the raft. Thomas steerin form the front and me from the back. After this adventure we went elephant riding. It was also great fun, even for my second time. Ekk and I rode on the mother elephant. And got overe the riover and through the woods before any other elephant, even the giant daddy elephant being ridden by Andy and Shawn. This huge elephant got snot on Ekk and i when we had a run in with it while atop mother elpephant. That was pretty disgusting.After this we arrived back at the school were we ate so much dinner and spent the night. This morning we ate even more, then kids came and we had a Farang (that is what they call us white folk) patrade through the village all the while picking up more children. I got to hold a very cute little baby. Then we cam back to the school where we sangh some worship songs, such as every move i make, which all the kids loved so much. They especially like the Na Na Na Na Na Na part. After the singing, Andrew told the story of the good Samaritan and Ekk translated. It went reall well. I enjoyed worshiping Jesus with they kids un ashamedly. We danced and ran around while we sang. It was excellent. It was also good because many morem mature adults heard the story aswell. I felt like Jesus was spoken oif and showed through us at Mae Wong. Thats that. Only a couple more days then we will be back home. Good luck and Good night. --Brad