Happy Birthday Marit

Well today is Marit's Birthday and it has been an enjoyable week! We had a family dinner with more food than Thanksgiving last night with singing and laughing with both mine and Marit's family. We got pizza and an ice cream cake which was just the american birthday Marit always wanted, haha. Today we had a Funfetti cake with pink frosting (what Marit has every year) and the whole group sang and ate together. It was wonderful.
Tomorrow we are going to go to the pool to get a tan and then head to get dinner at our favorite mexican place in Thailand (odd concept, right). After that we are going to the rooftop bar with kids from our group to hang out and celebrate Marit's birthday a little bit more. They never need an excuse here for a party!
We had art class today which was really fun. We did an animal painting with watercoloring and then we did one of people that was supposed to be a replica from an ancient temple drawing. They all turned out different, but I have never in my life been graded for art based on quality so harshly. I consider myself to be decently artistic and have always gotten As in art class. NO ONE gets As in this class. You are lucky if you get above a C+. Some kids take it hard, but I maintain and B+ average so that is good. Marit is an incredible watercolorer and has taken classes at school and she got a B+ on her last watercolor...they sure are strict.
I am excited to move out of painting and into silverware and casting...that should be messy but fun also.
Next week is our last official week of internship and I am getting really sad about it. I really have made some great monk friends and I want to keep in touch with them for a long time. They offered us teaching positions for the future and I am definetly considering it. I love working with the monks and I would love to live in Thailand for a while, especially Chiang Mai.
What is new in the US? We don't get to watch the Olympics and I am bummed but they are worse things I guess. I am too busy to sit at any TV anyways at home so I guess there is not much of a difference.
Aubs