Certified at Last!!!!
We are finally finished with school and you can now officially refer to us as English teachers. So here we are teaching in our matching yellow shirts. We celebrated by going out and drunking way too many adult beverages. Crazy things happened, but that is all that I will say about that. Today we had the wonderful task of going on a border run. Basically, when you go to Thailand, they give you a one month tourist visa and in order to stay for another month, you go cross the border somewhere and then they stamp your passport another 89 times and then you can stay for another month. I assume that this is done so that people can make money by doing visa runs. They actually pick you up at your hotel and take you through this whole process without ever telling you what is really going on. So today we sat on a bus for about a million hours, got on and off the bus 365 times to do random things we have no idea what were for, and then sat on a boat while the guy in charge stuck viagra down his pants. We stood in a barbed wire section at the immigration station in Burma (which is now called Myanmar) for about ten minutes and then did the whole thing again on the way back. The funny thing is that this town that we went to is there entirely for visa runs. You can only get there by boat from Thailand; there aren't any roads into Burma from there. The whole thing is a little odd and pretty ridiculous, but I guess one more month in Thailand is worth it. Tomorrow we are off to a national park to hang out in the jungle for a while and (cross your fingers) see a tiger. We will be there for a few days until we return to Phuket to pick up Aleta. At the very least, we should see some leeches....

The other picture is of us doing one of our favorite pasttimes in Thailand, eating. We do it several times a day, so we thought you might want to see it in action.