Today we had the opportunity to meet up with the students we have been emailing from Katestart University. We met the students at Wat Po, where they taught us to make beautiful leis and fold lotus flowers. The students spoke very good English, so there wasn't too much of a communication barrier. It was so cool to hear about the everyday life of someone the same age as me also going through a degree program at a University, but on a completely different side of the world. I was amazed by how much is universal, from loving the movie Frozen to taking selfies. We liked a lot of the same music as our new friends, as well. After we crafted, the Thai students taught us how to give offerings to the Buddha statue and wai. Over and over I'm awed by the amount of respect and reverence Thai people show each day. Next we went on a photo scavenger hunt. Half of the words on the list were in English and half in Thai, so this took a great deal of communication. Our buddies lead us around Bangkok, which would have been nearly impossible to navigate on our own, with the ease of people who'd done it hundreds of times. Once we had found all the items on our list, we went to a market and bought supplies for a gingerbread house. The Thai students had never made a gingerbread house, and we had never had to use so much ingenuity when picking out supplies. This activity was an excellent idea to get us to work together and share our cultures. When we finished the gingerbread houses, we spent a few hours just hanging out and singing and dancing. We definitely became friends quickly, and I'm so happy I had the chance to meet them all!