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After a fourteen hour plane ride to Korea from Dulles, and a six hour plane ride from Korea to Chiang Mai, we finally made it here at the GoED house. The house is on a Lahu hill tribe bible school campus, and the campus itself is on a collection of rice fields. The rice fields are amazingly beautiful, especially in the mornings when the sun rises over them. The Lahu are a marginalized people group here in Northern Thailand. Since they migrated from Burma, live in the mountains, and speak Lahu instead of Thai, they do not have the same cultural expectations that the Thai people do, and therefore are seen as lowly and of a low status in society. This bible school is preparing them to be pastors for their various hill tribes. For some of them, this is their first academic experience at all.

View from our room on the fourth floor 

the house 

our room 

The past few days have been filled with numerous activities and adventures. We have been to the Lahu church, the local coffee shop, the Sunday Night Market, the Queen's botanical garden, an elephant farm, a hike to a beautiful waterfall, a Thai umbrella factory, a pottery place, a wood carving factory, and had tons of wonderful wonderful authentic Thai food. YUM.

This is considered 'the dish of the north', Khao Sawy. It is delicious beyond compare. It is a red coconut curry with egg noodles, cilantro, spices, sausage and pork with a crunchy noodle on top. I could have this every day if i could along with drinking out of a coconut.