Breakin'

I'm really excited and grateful...not only because I have high speed internet for the first time (in let's just say a LONG time), but also because I'm heading to Thailand for a couple weeks to get a nice break. I've got great plans to soak up some sun, get in some great morning runs, and drink some much-craved Starbucks coffee!

The past couple months have been nothing less than insanely awesome and busy--so much so that I find myself incredibly grateful that I've experienced and survived them!

Lately I've really been reflecting on my time here, and as it continues to draw to an end, I'm filled with mixed emotions. Certainly excitement for the next step in this crazy spontaneous life, and a restlessness to reunite with my loved ones. But I'm not naive to the fact that this place has found a very comfortable position in my heart, and it's just never going to leave...

You Know You've Been to the Village When...

You know you've been to the village when:

1. You take your ponytail down and your hair remains in the same position.
2. You're more familiar with a tree than with a western toilet (or squatty!)
3. Your chai intake is so great that it's oozing from your pores.
4. You've lose all touch with formal manners, and your fingers become
perfectly acceptable eating utensils.
5. Simple story: your scalp itches.
6. wet wipes are multi-purpose--toilet paper, facewash, shower...
7. You become one with nature, including rodents, spiders and mosquitos.
8. You can cook over a mud stove like you learned the skill in your mama's womb.
9. You embrace bed bugs as a fact of life.
10. You can't remember how to speak english.