WE MADE IT!

Guess what. It took us a million hours to get here... seriously. We had some delays along the way, spent the night on the Bangkok airport floor, and almost left my bag twice in two different airports. But we made it to Chiang Mai tired, starving, and dehydrated. ISDSI staff picked us up at the airport and took us straight to our hotel place (www.mountainview-guesthouse.com). It is beautiful and has amazing food. My first meal in Thailand was Fried rice with indian curry and chicken. It was spicy but oh so good. Nothing like any thai resturants in Grand Rapids. It makes me so excited to experience more meals here! We met other ISDSI students from Colorado College and went off into the city to explore. All of us are pretty tired and trying to overcome jet-lag.
Tomorrow we are meeting our host families and having a little host-family orientation. Then we are sent off with our family for the rest of the weekend. Monday we start a whole week of orientation, which includes rock-climbing, intense thai classes, and understanding thai culture.
We would love for you to keep us in your prayers , especially with our host families and the relationships between all of us students. Thanks for your continued support and prayers!

Sawadee-kah.
ally j