Ashes

Coming home from Thailand to a burning city was not what we were expecting much less Dan having no home to come home to. I was amazing with how well he held things together after learning his house was demolished in the fires. Talk about being helpless.
Saturday a group of us went up to his house and his neighbor's houses to help sort through the ashes for possible memories. Katie puts it best here.
And still he was alight with laughter- so much so that we could here him when he arrived at his house (we were at the neighbor's site). He actually said, "All you can do is laugh at this point" as he stared down at the rubble.

One more week of...

1. Jenni


2. Riding Motor bikes


3. Gracie (Jenni's Dog) biting me


4. painting the centre


5. Removing paint I just painted on


6. my pants sticking to my legs


7. never doing my hair since it will just get messed up from the helmet


8. coffee in a bag (not an IV - I know you were thinking that Katie and Susan)


9. delicious Thai food


10. Fun Thai people who try to call me either Tamerine (SP?) or Donkey

Thailand here I come!

This is Jen and I have hacked into Tam's blog to tell all of you that Tam is on her way to Thailand right now. She is actually on a plane right now that will land in Singapore and then she will get on another plane and arrive in Chiang Mai tomorrow morning. I am SUPER EXCITED to see her!

And if she were blogging right now, this is what she would write:

"I could not be happier than I am right now. It doesn't matter that I am stuck in this uncomfortable airplane seat, wishing I could take a shower and sleep. It doesn't matter that I don't know the person next to me well enough to be comfortable with them leaning on me or that the movies they have picked for this flight are awful. Nothing matters except the fact that I will soon see my Jenni, my hero, my best friend, my everything. It has been a long ten months since we last saw eachother and I have been counting down the minutes until our next meeting. It is almost here and I feel like crying with excitement. The next eleven days together will be bliss because my sister is the coolest!"

Or something like that anyway...

Woohoo! The Leeper sisters together again!!!!

Conversation with Jenni

For those of you who don't know, my sister Jenni teaches English to Thai College Students in Chiang Mai.
Here is a conversation I just had with her:

Jennifer: today we were talking about names in my class and Dear asked what your full name was. i told him your middle name was Dawn and he asked if he could call you donkey as a nickname

it was Hilarious me: gasp!

you told him no right?

Jennifer: i told him yes he could call you donkey

i love dear

me: no!

Jennifer: and i love you my little donkey

me: you basically are calling me an ass

Jennifer: i know but he didn't realize that and it

made it even funnier

me: way to teach your students to cuss

Jennifer: i love language barriers

you're the one whose name sounds like donkey