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First things first... I made a video of a sort of dinner theatre we attended at a mirgrant school last weekend - but it failed. And so, you will just have to imagine homemade costumes of shiny fabrics, traditional Burmese music mixed with just the right amount of house beats, and the cutest Karen children dancing for hours while serving us roti and chicken and unripened mango. It was a great night - definitely a favourite in the last month, a close second being the day we went to this same school to treat lice and ringworm.

Strange that I've been here a month already. I feel like I just stepped on the plane from Edmonton, anxiety and excitement boiling in the deepest parts of my heart. At the same time, I feel like I've been here much much longer... I have reached a point of a certain kind of contentment and comfortability as the bones of my life here in Mae Sot take on flesh. I feel that I have been given opportunity through Imagine Thailand to carve out a ministry for myself, within the already existing ministry. I feel like my life here is the only one I have. I feel like I belong here.

At times I feel like my life and ministry here are so eclectic, and maybe just a bit outside the lines, though I mostly enjoy this aspect of it.

There are hard days. There are moments I become a little more than curious about my life at home (sometimes bordering on worry). There are trials, and victories, and discouragements, and moments of hope scattered throughout. But in it all I am reminded that I am exactly where I am called to be. Even when I am crying through a disagreement with my Imagine Thailand family, even when I'm sick of teaching English, even when I am lonely and wishing for a good friend to be near... God is faithful, and constant, and so good that I could never doubt His presence in my life or the call He's given me to do "greater things."