To China and Back!!

Well i was feeling the blogging today for some reason. I haven't been up to a lot since i switched host families. Mostly just rotary events and such. Last weekend was the half year mark. Holy crap half of the year has gone bye already! 5 Months wow! a lot has happened in 5 months....doesn't feel like it tho! You don't really realize how much stuff your actually doing till you write it down like when i blog and such. I spend a lot of my free time on the computer and it seems like that's all i do when really i do a lot more. I have been having a hard time with things here in Thailand. The culture difference is hard to take. Thai people are very open and will tell you what they think. I'm not the skinniest person in the world ill admit that...but i am certainly not obese like some Thais seem to think. That's hard to take when your used to a culture where they believe that is rude to say. The Thai culture is very conservative as well. i can tell you the last time i wore a tank top or shorts above the knee and in Thailand hats hard. Because we live with Thai families we have to apply to the Thai culture. you can always spot the foreigners because they have tank tops shorts and flip flops! I know we don't always follow the "rules" and wear long shorts or t shirts but its Thailand...its hot! Rotary here in Thailand believes that if we don't follow every rule laid out for us we automatically don't understand the culture...no we understand but you don't understand our culture. And when its hot we prefer to wear lighter and less clothing we cant stand the heat as well as you we arnt all Asian... so back off a little! I know its culture so i respect that but when you make it a huge deal that i wore a tank top that's a little silly..they make it sound like i was whoring myself out or something! like holy smokes! but its Thai culture! gotta live with it for now! I'm very conservative here..those who know me be shocked! cause its true! (mom and dad I'm going on a party path when i get home! just so you know!) Anyways enough on the rant about Thai culture and how its poopy to me!
Last weekend I got together with all the students in the district for the half way meeting to see how everything is going. and to do a Thai speech............blah it was crappy i can speak thai but not in front of judges like come on! i can barley speak in front of my rotary club! (they are all judges them self!) so i did my paragraph did a little dance got a good cheer from my fans and was done haha! Gt a cool backpack that says rotary youth exchange Thailand on it! pretty coool! sooo thats was interesting thas was last Saturday.
Last Sunday i went with my new host family to the largest temple in the world....wow! it was really neat....brandy forgot her camera....damn! im sure we will go back tho. During the week it was slw mostly sleeping watching movies drawing and reading...all at school of course.....then repeated again at home aha! Because of Christmas holidays and such and being really sick i missed 4 classes of my drawing class. (so like 4 weeks) so i showed up last week and my acher looks at me with shock and goes...oh i thought you went back to Canada! i was like ooo noo hahah! hes like o good lots to draw! i was like awesome! haha that was a highlight of my week i think :P! This Friday i got together with all the Bangkok crew and we went to adventure! just hanging out and being silly of course! nobody but i had school so i was done at 12 so lunch and out and about. We had Kebabs! YUMMMMM only 69 baht! So friday was fun just to hang out! Saturday i spent with my first host mom and Bryan. She took her faculty at the university to supanburi province. were we visited two temples and an aquarium. The one temple had a MASSIVE golden Buddha and he other was a huge Chinese temple which was really neat. It had the largest Statue of a dragon in Asian! And the inside was a museum! All in Thai of course BUTTTTTT they had english audio for me and Bryan so we were happy about that and could follow along easily! It was all about the history of the Chinese in Thailand and all about china. pretty cool if you ask me! it was all audio and video so no reading needed and it was a really cool show i guess you could say! They made us where the hospital sneaker covers cause they like it clean in there i guess so that was interesting! Next was the aquarium which wasn't that cool it was real small and no real cool fish! i was disappointed haha! whatever! Then we came back to Bangkok for dinner. Where we went to the tallest building in Asia and had dinner on the 82 floor! quiet the view if you ask me! that was really neat. Im glad my first host mom let us tag along. Saturday was a fun day!
Sunday was had a rotary kindergarten day where we were pretty much put on display! They made us come for opening ceremonies and then told us to leave and come back for closing ceremonies haha ok whatever you want so it wasn't that interesting and we feel a little used like they just wanted us to be there for them to look good...lovely!
SO thats about all for the last 2 weeks! 3 weeks of school and then im planning to get out and do some stuff with my life rather then sit on the couch like we are supposed to...watch out Thailand Brandys coming!!!
Xoxoxo

Christmas, New Years, Sickness, Polio and whatever else has happened!!!

O dear Lots to talk about sorry i haven't blogged...but life goes on! So Tis the season of hot weather and bugs! ya bugs are not my friend these day nor ill they ever be! I've recently recovered from a spill of Dengue Fever and let me tell you not tooo fun! pretty much the flu only 30 times worse. One day i couldn't even get out of bed i was so tired! Not fun. so i spent most of my Christmas holidays in bed with the exception on Christmas eve. Christmas eve we spent at dreamworld! Which is like a Callaway park i guess but maybe a little bigger. So we spent the day get sick on rides and eating carnie food and getting ripped off by silly carnival games that we swear we can beat haha. (we lost of course) after using ever ounce of energy i had we finished up at dreamworld and went out for some Christmas eve dinner! yay! it was good we went and had some real steak and such! not really traditional Christmas dinner but i mean this whole season has been a little crazy. So i woke up early Christmas morning to talk to the family on skype and open the presents they sent me which was pretty cool! I was pretty tired tho so i may have been a little scrooge haha. so Christmas day the plan was to get together and just spend the day doing whatever with the exchange kids because thai people dont celebrate Christmas(they just decorate for it) Then we would go out for a traditional Christmas dinner which a pub was holding that we often go to. i made it to lunch before i was falling asleep from exhaustion soo i was pissed off and sick and made my way slowly home and back into my bed where i spend the rest of my Christmas day...talk about a bummer! i was very bah hum bug the next 3 days! I adventured to the hospital and get some drugs and what not wooo good times for sure! it wasn't until the 30th before i left my house again. I was starting to feel human again and definitely had a little more spunk in my step. Jessica another exchange student from the states was supposed to go on vacation with her host parents but had an allergic reaction to something and got a rash so her host parents said she couldn't go....weird i know...so i ended up adopting her for the next 5 days. So on the 30th we went out for some food and just hung around the mall. We then adventured back home to spent the night watching silly movies and facebook creeping hahah! New years eve rolls around and we find ourselves still in our pj's on the couch at 4 pm haha thinking we should probably shower and get ready to go out for the night! So we get all pretty and head out to meet up with other exchange kids! so we are wondering down KahoSong road having fun we find this pretty cool elephant that i must say was rather cuteee!! So we had a fun time there and all of a sudden it was midnight....no countdown....hmmmm thats unusual...then we all scream yayyy! haha so we adventure do a little dancing and then head home...which took us to hours and walking dwn dark alleys at 3 haha scary! haha don't worry we were invincible at this point soo nobody messed with us! haha. So we slept most of new years day and the day after that as well haha. so thats the down low from Christmas till now pretty much.
Today i switched families with another exchange student Bryan so i am now currently living in my own apartment that my new host parents own. Wooo ahah its pretty much just a big room haha with a bathroom but its an escape i guess somewhere i can call my own for the next couple f months. My new family is really nice so im happy about that! :) So we will see what exciting adventures come around in the near future. School starts again tomorrow till the 6th of February then im done for the rest of the year wooo haha excitingg!
A couple of weeks ago my rotary club joined the end polio campaign so we got to go to a school and give oral vaccines to little kids probably around 5 or 6 i would guess. Half of them cried half of them were good but none the less it was quiet the experience so there are a few photos from that.
There was also a Rotary Christmas party that we all attended so we went to a museum and hang out with all the kids from our district so it was good to see everyone. so theres some pictures from that...enjoy
Xoxox