Well CRAP!

Where do i even begin? Its been a while, well over a month! almost two!! holy time is flying by! some days i feel like ive still just begun this experience then i look at the calendar and its nearly over! where does the time go?? Its certainly been flying in the past two months know that school has finished!! Hmm well where to begin?
In the last two months i have been trying to keep as busy as possible and well ive succeeded so far! The biggest things that have happened in the past months were the southern and northern bus trips!! those were adventures for sure! Being one of the older kids in the group you seem to get alot of pressure put on you soo i was a little disappointing when i became group babysitter or mommy as lots of they now call me....o well i still made the best of it. In the southern bus trip we spent alot of time outside in the water which i was grateful for. Snorkeling and exploring beaches has become a new for-tay of mine. Im absolutely obsessed with skin diving now! (pretty much snorkeling but you just dive down for a while and look at fish with no tank) i have some pressure issues with my ears so it hurts some times but i still love it! We visited "The Beach" for those of you have seen the movie or read the book. I dunno it was cool but way to over populated with tourists. Really sad most of the coral is dead close to the shore and such so its sad to see! We spend the first two days at kho phi phi. which is beautiful but to many tourists haha i dunno im little fed up with tourists haha. i can see how thai people get sick of them. i still love the classic tourist with with their big cameras socks and sandals, shorts pulled up to there belly button and the tilly hat...(DAD) haha its the ones that get on the bts and ask what station to get off at to get to siam paragon....umm you get off at siam?? DUUHHH hmm soo after kho phi phi we travel by boat back to phuket and traveled to patong beach. Then in phuket it was mostly shopping and the beach. On the last night we went to Phuket Fantasea which was like a big show with like elephants on stage and dancing and singing and it was cool but very confusing hey were telling a story about the prince and the elephant and all of a sudden there were clowns on stage doing magic tricks? haha wtf? it was cool tho! so the final day we did some shopping and went to the phuket aquarium.....that was nothing special haha. other then i got to hold a turtle! soo then it was another 12 hour bus ride back to bangkok back to the pollution and busy city life blahhhh.
Soo what was happening before that. OOO district conference that was a gong show. it was extremely boring ahaha we mostly sat there while they did presentations all day long then come night time we were supposed to do a thai dance. sooo we get all dressed up in costume and such and did like a quarter of our dance before the music got screwed up and some f the girls realized they were dancing on dry ice. yaa one of the girls from japan burned her feet so bad i she had to get surgery. :( midori from japan missed the first bus trip because of her feet she couldn't walk so that was really sad! so districts was a bust haha not that exciting really.
St pattys day was inserted some where in between those so a bunch of he kids got together for that. some kids from the other district came down and joined us so i think we had 4 or 5 canadians!! whoooohooo. so that was fun. A couple days after that i went to a concert fundraiser for charity it was a Benny Benassi concert. Ive seen him once in lethbridge before s it was cool to have seen him here as well. That was a really fun night.
Before ALLLLLL of this i actually changed families for the last time! I LOVE this new family! The are very "western" haha soo lets say i feel more my age these days. I had the best beef stew last night yumm and corn soup one day oomg sooo good! makes me want moms food sooo bad! I cooked for my new family last week and it was a hit. Mashed potatoes, greek salad, yogurt chicken, and brcolie...yum yum yum. I dream about mashed potatoes now because the ones i made were sooooooooooo goood if i do say so myself. and by what was left after dinner was finished it was well like by everyone else :)
In my new family i have and older brother and sister and hey are both in there mid 20's so i feel like i fit in more in this family. I really enjoy my host sisters company she has really turned into a real sister. two weeks ago she celebrated her 24th birthday, that day i found myself in her room just talking with her while we are finding things to wear and putting on our make up when all of a sudden i realized OMG this is what i do with my real sister! so that made me a happy/sad i guess you could say! im glad to have it back but i miss kelly more and more these days! But guess what! kelly is headed my way in 2 weeks! YAY!!! kelly will be arriving on the 5th of may with a bunch of travelers fr her own thailand adventure! and guess what i get to join in. for 2 weeks ill travel with her down south on the amazing white sand beaches and the bright blue ocean! can you tell im excited! i know as soon as i see kelly i will burst into tears of joy! ive never missed my family as much as i do these days!
Well I just got back from my northern bus trip! Holy crap i think ive never been "templed" out before but i deffinatley am now! there are some pretty amazing temples in this country but doing almst 16 in 8 days is rough. you almost dont want to get out of the bus...but i did! The northern bus trip was a little more boring then the southern because we didnt do as many activities but it was still fun. We were able to go elephant trekking, white water rafting, bamboo rafting and a bunch of temples. OH we also went to see the golden triangle and the hall of opium....probably the coolest museum i have ever been to! it teaches you how to harvest, make and smoke opium! hahahahaha quiet interesting! We also saw a beautiful waterfall and went to the highest point in thailand! thats pretty cool eh?? The biggest highlight of the trip was probably songkran festival. In thailand the new year is april 13th-15th. So on these 3 days its a national holiday where its one big massive water fight!!! omg i stepped outside for 3 mins and was soaking wet! it was one of the funnest days! seriously you run around and get soaking wet, tere are people in the back f trucks with buckets of water and you party around a huge canal so endless water! omg! sooo fun and of course because your white you are a HUGE target! haha and blonde hair o by people go crazy and there are no chances of staying dry! i tell you the chaffing i had going on the inner thighs was soooo painful at the end of the day but you know what 110% worth it! haha ooo dear! soo that was sooo fun i wish i could have some awesome pictures from it but because you are getting soaking wet its dangerous for any electronics obviously! duhh. So we celebrated the songkran festival while we were in chaing mai. Things in chaing mai are soo cheap sooo obviously i went shopping....i think i know need 4 suitcases to get back! fml! haha dont worry mom im shipping stuff home in a week promise! i have WAYYYYYYYYYY to much stuff and its overflowing! well people should be happy tho cause most of it is for other people haha! so chaing mai was fun! i noticed that the people up there are much nicer and friendlier? maybe cause its cause they are all on opium! :| haha jokes! but seriously..... so the northern bus trip was good. i got to get to know alot of th kids that are going out of thailand next year because the outbounds come with so it was cool. there are some interesting kids! i really like the boy whos coming to canada! i wish i new if he was coming to my district next year because i want him to stay at my house! hahah hes a pretty cool kid!....AHHHH MY FINGERSSSSS this is a long one! probably doesnt help that im multitasking and emailing people at the same time! thats what i get for leaving it this long right! soo after the bus trip which finished on thursday we werent allowed back in bangkok....dont know whos all been watching the news and such but the political situations got a little ut of control. the government was forced to extend the 3 days holiday to 5 days because it got so bad. Crazy how people can get this out of hand with the government! so we had to stay at kids houses who did not live in bangkok. i stayed with my girlfriend melissa in lopburi with a couple other exchange students which was fun! we just hung out and explored her town. she lives in monkey town...seriously they are everywhere! and their mean!!!!!!!! ya i was a little scared haha! so i just actually got back to bangkok last night (sunday) so im happy to be "home" and having a bed to myself! hahah Tomorrow im planning on getting the visa extended for the last time whoop whoop! then hanging out with some friends for the day! I find myself thinking up things that i still want to do before i leave and then i realize how little time i have left! time is really flying ill be home before you even know it!

XOXO