CowtownKatie: kt & nellie

After just a few days together in Chiang Rai, I wondered if anybody was praying for me & Nellie to have good conversations - because we seemed to just talk and talk and have so much to talk about!

And we still do! I have been SO BLESSED by her! Besides being a little piece of home, I'm very thankful to have someone that feels like a sister here. We get along so well, make decisions the same way, and have agreed on just about everything (if not all things... I can't think of anything we haven't agreed on yet, but I mean we're not the same person so surely there's something). Maybe she doesn't laugh at New Girl...or have a thing for Robert Redford (he'll forever be Hubble to me)...or agree that there's always room for dessert...Ahhhh I NEED TO GO CHECK, THESE THINGS COULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO OUR SISTERHOOD!

Kidding of course. We have shared many laughs and provided many laughs. And while we're still getting acclimated to Thailand and acquainted with each other, we can already finish one another's sentences. With cookies in her mouth last week, Nellie mumbled to me just with sounds, no words, and I responded to her with a complete understanding while our friend watched and listened in confusion.

Did all of you CFer's know we would get along so well and did you know we're so similar?? I think it's HILARIOUS.

It just is.

You just never know how your life is going to turn out, and how people who enter into your life will be used. I had no idea when I drove Nellie home from karaoke last January (yep) that we'd be living in Thailand together just 7 months later.

Gosh I can't believe I live in Thailand.

I believe God gives us people we need at the times that we need them. [Candid now] In considering the move to Thailand and sensing peace in going, I prayed, "Lord, but sometimes I am lonely now... why would I move to another country where I don't know anybody NOR do I know the language?? I won't have my people or my home, I love my apartment and I'll miss Magnolia Street...."

Like I've said before, He is faithful, He is faithful, He is faithful.

bike ride around the university's lake

Nellie & I were deciding this week whether or not to move into a house, and after thinking and praying about it for a few days, we ended up having the same thoughts and feelings about it. We're staying in the dorm for now and are happy with it. =) We live next to a precious family with 3 boys, one is in my class. We are a 1 to 5 minute walk to a few restaurants and a convenient store, a 5 minute bike ride to a university with a gorgeous lake and garden, a 17 minute bike ride to school, and we live just a walk down the street from some of our friends and co-teachers.

We're getting better at creating meals in a place where we really can't read the labels on most things, and we help each other keep a balance on our new lives in a different culture.