Hip Hip Ho....fuck off im no hippo so why should i have to do the hippo song and dance..kill me!!

So ive had a couple crazy weeks. I started last sunday with a 12 hour car ride to royette. How fun! lets just say we were getting sick of driving and each other for that matter. It took us so long because we stopped at a million and one places along the way! like 3 temples...blehhh some old ruins and a cool like tree place that underwater...so theres some pictures from those places. so there were 7 of us who went to Royette to teach english...which we really didnt do cause its hard to when all they know is thank you and hello. so we did our best! the kids were super cute and really fun to be around. so that was nice. But i think we had the most fun at night just the 8 of us. We really got to know each other this past week. some nights we watched a movie and others we had huge discussions about home and our future...ya we were going pretty deep haha. One night we wandered around the village...which wasn't that big so it was a pretty quick trip haha. apparently theres ghosts at the school so we shouldnt have gone at night but we did.....because we are rebels haha. hmm i dunno there was some fun times and other really boring times and then the STUPID times where they all loved when i did the stupid hippo dance, or the chicken one or the elephant one...cause im like the best at it i guess but i dont think thats a complement! ugh those songs will burn in my head for life. litteralyy...hip hip ho, hip hip ho. he walks like this, he walks like that, la lal alalalal ....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate it!
people love to sing here! i hate singing so much. But people here really dont care if they are bad or not.....which alot of the time they are HORRIBLE...but no worries we have all become acostum to being tone deaf.
we came home a day early for our adventure...they told us it was because they didnt need us the next day...when at the same time they told our families that they couldnt handle us....thats what really makes me mad about thai parents...they are very passive and tell everyone else but you that you have done something wrong...ill admit we were loud a couple of nights but nobody said anything so how were we supposed to know? The different culture gets to me sometimes and makes me miss home but im sure our culture has its own negatives as well. Im just used to having alot of freedom at home which i am very grateful for. i didnt realize how lucky i was at home and know i really miss it. Thanks mom and dad! i dont think i ever realized how good i have it at home! In this huge city im a caged animal and its starting to get to me. having to be home before the sun goes down...which is at 6....really hits hard...when at home i dont leave the house till 9 some nights...but like i said before its a different culture and its not my place to go against the rules...but i mean being 18 in one of the best cities in the world and not being able to see it at night it hurts a little. Im not saying i havent been out...ive had my ways but ya they are a little over protective here...which is not always a bad thing.
so i had my last few days of vacation on the weekend. On saturday i spent the day with the Angthong Crew. (kids in my district that dont live in bangkok) the 7 of us that im always speaking of are the bangkok crew and then theres like 6 from the angthong crew and theres a bunch more but they are to far away to ever really hang out haha. so we did the siam paragon thing and central world and then adventured to Kaosong Road to do a little "shopping" haha. Sunday i went to dinner with my host family on a boat. We cruised the Chappya River...im not sure how to spell it but ya the big river that runs down thte middle of bangkok haha. So that was really cool. Then monday i changed back to my first host which is good and bad. i really fell in love with my last family! but i know i will see lots of them so thats ok!
so i started school again...kill me know...so i went to the counseller because i will not survive another 4 months of sleeping on my desk and being in the ultimate state of boredom! so i told her i would way rather spend my time at home doing nothing in the air conditioning then having to face the heat and sit in a class where i dont understand shit all. So i said stick me in the art room for 6 hours a day...i really dont care and she said ok ill see what i can do so we will see what happens. anyways thats all for now!
xoxox

o me o my life has been crazy!

Well ive been running around doing lots of stuff in the past week or so and i finally have time to write about it! where shall i start? well i think i left off telling you that i was going to korat for the weekend well that was last weekend....but korat..not so interesting...haha we went to the Khao Yai National park and that was the only highlight i think haha it was nice to get away from the city to and just hang out! ya korat suckeed being stuck with a bunch of asains that cant speak english is hard haha they try to talk and yaaa mai kow jai!!!! ( i dont understand)) EVER ugh haha im actually getting better tho im learning the essentials thats for sure like..toilet...and feed me..and bowling and moviess...and take me here...yup not bad if you ask me haha
sooo ya korat was pretty boring but i got to see the worlds largest damn thats made out of soy....yup i said soy that bean you make tofu out of....pretty sketchy if you ask me....well of course its mixed with cement...i hope....no it is but ya got to see that...it was pretty epic...not...
soo lets see what did i do with my week? its seems like ive been busy but i cant really remeber what ive all done haha. I didnt do alot during the week it was nice to relax. On Friday it was Simon's Birthday so for his birthday we went out paintballing...ya as if the heat isnt bad enough we get suited up in coveralls and vests and run around! HOW FUN! haha ya we sweated like pigs but it was pretty awesome haha. I was amazing and shot one of my teams mates by accident...opps ya have sweet skills haha. so a few bruises later we went out for lunch and then i headed home i was dead dog tired from running in the heat and very very smelly! yum yum yum
Soo saturday rolls around and
i have to be at the makro at 7:30...shittttyyy...so i roll out of bed and arrive on thai time....8 hahah so about 10 of the exchange students and i headed to ampawan for a night...which has fireflies and the floating market....well the fireflies looked like they were christmas lights and the floating market was on a dock....lets just say the weekend could have been better. Its nice spending a night with the inbounds a group of us have become really close so we have some good times...i think one of the highlights had to be catching a cockroach and feeding it red bulls and then watching me try to catch a gecko...which i didnt succeed at...haha but im always good at providing entertainment right?? so the weekend had some laughs and we love to just drive each other crazy making nicknames for each other...i got penelope....cause of the movie with the girl and the pig nose...ya mean hey? i made an ugly face in a picture and next thing you know im being called penelope hahah damn
soo monday this week i started a thai massage class which is pretty interesting haha pretty awkward some times haha me and dan are partners and when youve got your knee in someones ass bone i guess you get to know them pretty good hahahah ooo boy. so ive been doing that today and yesterday and i will tomorrow and thursday haha. monday after class a few of us went bowling haha it was actually really fun and i rocked with 3 strikes in a row...yup 3 strikes im amazing...anyways ive been invited to teach english in the north for a week starting on sunday so i think i will probably do that so thats all ive been up to latley things have been crazy and im getting tired haha anyways sorry theres no pictures it wont work for some reason! arggg sooo ill try again later!
Xoxox

Hammocks, Pants and Elephants

Well i've been pretty busy so far this week. On monday we spent the day at Ayyutaya which is the old capital of Bangkok! It was soo hot on monday all of us were dragging our feet by the end of the day. Were started off at the Bang-Pa In Palace which used to be the kings palace...i think i cant remeber all of the history i took in in the last 3 days. But we wondered around there for about an hour and took in all the sites. It wasnt the most extremely exciting thing in the whole world but it was pretty cool to see. so after we wondered aorung in the heat for an hour we retreated back to the vans to head off to our next destination. Yayy lunch time! we went to a hotel near the palace that had a buffet for us..and alot of it of course...we are in thailand not having enough food is not an option. so i think we spent about an hour and half at the hotel eating and eating...of course all the exchange kids finished after one plate full while the thai kids ate probably about 3...and they are all sooo skinny!!! its not fair!
so after eating like elephants!!!...we went and saw the real thing!! YAYYY i was like a little kid in a candy store! i was soo excited about the elephants i wanted to like jump on one and run away with it! it was amazinggg! elephants are sooo coool! and i got to ride one!!! it was awesome they are super slow but it was still awesome! i think Simon and Dan thought i was like 2 cause i was acting like one...but are you surprised i mean its me and animals!! so i only went for a 10 min ride but it was sweet you can ride close to some ruins and take pictures so that was cool. it was only like 6 dollars i think haha! sweeet! i love how cheap things are here! but some how i seem to run out of money fast haha! the trips ive been taking this week cost a little so think thats where most of its been going haha!
So after playing with the elephants for about an hour we went to the market there! and i bought a hammock for a dollar! awesome! so we spendt about an hour there and then headed to one of the biggest reclining buddahs. Which was really cool to see you get to put little pieces of goal leaf on the arm and its good luck. so i did that took a couple pictures and headed back to the van.
Next we headed to the ancient ruins to take a look that was really cool. But sooo hot! i thought i was gonna die it was soo hot! ahh! so after wondering the ruins for an hour we gave up and headed to the vans where the air con awaited us! we drove back to bangkok after that. We made plans on the way back for the next day....
Tuesdayyyy a few of us gathered at paragon to hang out. We sat around talking for an hour before we actually got up and started to do something. we wandered around siam square for a while and went into a couple shops ten we went to mbk to do a little shopping. Some of the other guys had to go so we decided to take a break from walking and go to my favorite place...swensens!! ya ice cream! so we had some ice cream and then some others had to head out so then there were 3 haha.
we did some shopping and i bought some more thai pants haha. Yup pretty sure i own every kind of thai pants and multiple colors i think i may have to send home some of my pants that i brought here haha. Then we adventured back to paragon to watch an IMAX!! i love the imax its so sweet. We saw eagle eye which was awesome cause there wasso much action in it! Sooo funny story when we were in the imax and first finding our seats steph sat down in one and broke the chair hahahahaha it was sooo funny cause she was like sitting on the floor just killing herself laughing...i dunno maybe you had to be there but it was definitely a good laugh....her new nickname is "the elephant" hahah soo mean so its only to be used by us 3 haha. so that was a fun day just to hang out with everybody.
Wednesday was a day at the grand palace and the zoo! Wapa go or the grand palace was really pretty to see but it rained most of the morning so that wasnt cool at all haha. So we wondered around there for about 2 hours looking at everything taking pictures.. it was pretty cool but lots of the places you arent aloud to which is stupid but ok haha i understand. so that was really pretty. then we went to a wooden mansion that was...sorry to say but overwhelmingly boring hahah ya we all wanted out of there. Then we headed to the ZOO!! awesomee!!! haha i was again like a ittle kid in a candy store haha i was real excited to be at the zoo and just see all the animals. It was awesome tho i got attacked by a money at one point haha my camera and hand got a little to close to the cage and when they grab they hold on for dear life jeeeezze! put i think the all time high was that i found little shetland ponies haha wooooooo and i got to pet them! even better! i miss my horses :( haha wednesday was ok but was not the most exciting. other then the zoo of course haha.
Thursday was a day of shopping again with my host mom. let me tell you going out with her at the mall is pretty sweet we shopped for a while and i bough 4 more pairs of pants.....haha wooo and then we stopped and got a massage and then went back at shopping and then ate and then shopped again haha it was a relaxing day haha. o dear all in all the weeks been fun and this weekend Bryan and i are headed to korat for a night so that will be fun haha
well that all for now so stay tuned for more adventures :P
Xoxo