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February 13th blog

alright, here we go!

Monday. I got to school only to find out Alayna wasn’t there. a course of ‘awe hellz’ went through my head. Spending the day alone is pretty bad, especially since I’ve lost my schedule and don’t know any of my classes except for english classes. Thankfully I had english first. Started the day of with one of my favorite classes, an M6 class. One of our friends Ham aka Glasses guy is in that class and he’s always really nice to talk to. I helped most of the kids out with english homework from another class. low and behold they were studying a robert frost poem, the same poem I had studied in grade 12. I think the poem was far too advanced for them and their english abilities but i went along with it answering the questions they didn’t understand...which was almost all of them.

I was also lucky to have two english classes. The other being with the dumb class 5/8. I also get stuck working with a group of guys working on a speaking test. We didn’t have to present yet. these boys..their english wasn’t much better then my Thai. I spent the rest of the day in the teachers lounge on a website called listverse, its a very addicting website.

   Tuesday I only had one class and again Alayna wasn’t there. I had to fill in for her int hat class and help the one group out. They were really nice and one of the girls I found out I have as a friend on facebook and she has seen some of my cosplay pictures. It was super funny watching them try to find the right words to ask about the pictures of me kissing another girl for the photo. They never got around to asking it =P so funny.

At Rotary that night one of my less favorite ladies started getting on me about not knowing Thai and it really bugged me. I know I suck at it and its one of the things I hate most about myself, but really I just don’t learn. When she started bugging me about it, it made me want to rebel and just never learn thai. she really frustrated me. Then she showed me how to write my name in thai, that made me angry, as I think she literally thinks me to be dumb.. may be the reason why she’s not one of my favorite rotarians.

   Wednesday and still no Alayna. crap. I had all frees in the morning. more listverse for me. I also watched the two new Glee episodes and on a side note may I say shat has hit the fan on that show, almost everything is so messed up. Anyways I had sword fighting class but they were testing so I had to sit out. english was another testing day. My group went today and as always he tells me to slow down... not happening anytime I think. I also got to sit and listen to Matt and Steve bicker, always good to know that sibling love doesn’t go away with age (love you Aaron =P). I also borrowed Black Swan from Matt, what a good movie though a little creepy and...riskay at times, thank god I wasn’t watching it with parents. 

Thursday, last day of the school week, because thankfully after a long talk with my host brother I was able to get friday off. I would only have one class with M6 and they were having exams so there would be no point. Also Alayna was a no show. All week, made me sad and a little worried, but she’s a tuff cookie. I twas really bad though as my only class was second last period. Literally 6 classes of list verse. In one week I’m on page 145 of 187, with ere being about 15 lists per page, someone save me. Thats also going to be my entire week next week. 

After school though I got to see Mint and it being his 19th birthday where I got to tease him about him being older then me but still being in grade 11, I have far too much fun teasing that boy, I do not know how he puts up with me.

Friday was really awesome. I got to sleep in and have some really awesome ‘flashpoint’ inspired dreams. anyways lol. Another reason I got friday of as originally Alayna and I were going to celebrate her birthday that day as I wouldn’t get to see her on her actual birthday. Since she was sick I devised an awesome plan. After confirming it with her mom, I walked to Robinsons, which by the way it was stinking hot that day and I looked disgusting by the time I got there. So I got there then I went on a mad dash. Buying candles, lighter, presents which was two movies, Scream and Underworld. I had also done a drawing of her which I think turned out pretty crappy as I didn’t have a good   photo but I’m thinking its the thought that counts. I also had to pick up some gifts for other people. Then there was rushing around trying to find things. Finally it was actually buying the cake from DQ. Then I had to rush and find a tuktuk before the cake melted. Then it was a race to get to her house, not knowing the address, just knowing its near Assumption College. It all turned out though. I got to her house and thankfully their house keeper let me in. As quite as I could be I got the cake all ready then went up to her room and surprised her with the cake. She was sleepy and sick but i think she liked it. She also said I knew her too well when it came to her gifts. We then cut some pieces and feasted on cake while talking about the past week and the next few days as her parents arrived on Saturday and I’ really excited to meet them. I got to stay for dinner which was some Pizza Company, always good. I then got driven home by Alayna’s mom, man she’s amazing and like a second host mother I’m going to miss her so much when I go. 

Saturday was a lazy day of just checking emails and watching the new young justice and can i say.. ew? I really hate Artemis so far anyways I’ll stop talking about things that people do not know. At dinner time I went down as always but none of my usual family was there. Only My oldest host brother who I rarely see, his wife, and their friend. Everyone else was gone and the trio was taking me out to dinner. We got to the restaurant and we had a good time. They fed me ginger saying it was pineapple...I no longer trust my host brother. during the evening I watched my brother consume quite a lot of alcohol. I also saw my first ever rat... on the door frame.. made me think of the ratatouille special features where they mention Alberta and how we have no rats. Anyways We were walking out to the car ad I was praying please do not let my host brother drive. During the dinner we was intoxicated enough to show me a crash he had been in two years ago. The two cars involved were completely trashed and if I didn’t know better I would have thought he didn’t survive. Anyways we got into the car and guess who was drivig and I started saying quietly “I’m going to die” well he heard me and decided to scare me by ripping out of the parking lot and around every corner on the gravel road and scarily we almost hot a post. His wife finally stepped in at that moment and made him drive semi-normally... I will never get in a car while he’s touched alcohol.

Sunday I woke up and went spent quite a while at the school trying to load videos. I need to buy some more movies. I also amused myself by watching shane Dawson... funny guy.

At 6 we went out for dinner at hot pot where I shoved myself with sushi and ice cream. I also got the initial go ahead for Jessica coming up her for a week. I’m not super excited!!!!

Today was Valentines Day... oh dear, even though exciting it made me feel lonely...I'm an idiot

In Canada at my school. Well it was a bit of a joke, most couples did something outside of school, maybe a few people sending candygrams to each other, nothing huge, maybe the school would get decorated. This morning when I got to school it was waves of roses, chocolates, and stuffed animals. It was crazy. everyone got something for their friends. Everyone was giving something to everyone else. I was in awe. I sadly got nothing from anyone, so much for Mint's idea that I'd get something from at least one boy. I spent most of my day helping the teachers for tomorrows activities. Drawing cupid wings or painting 'mr and ms valentine' on sashes. Tomorrow is certainly going to be interesting. I'll be sure to take my camera. I also got to have an awesome talk as always with Howard. Though today was all about past girlfriends and such. I really like listening to Howard. He's a great speaker and tells the funniest stories. I've also found a man who has had as many girlfriends as my brother =) Howard also found out his girlfriend was going in for a C section so it looks like he's going to have a little Valentine baby girl named Ellie

Mint, even though he's a little short on money he got me a rose and a... face cloth? I'm sure its supposed to be romantic <3

anyways this week has been interesting to say the least. I think thats all I have to say about it. 

TTFN!!!!

kyouheikutie

I'm Feelin the Aster

Alright...
week...right... I'm trying to write this with a headache which is going to equal an interesting blog to say the least.
Monday... well monday was pretty slow. Slowly we've been going to less and less classes for various reasons and on Monday we have only two classes. Both of them being english, because Howard just makes our days that much brighter. I also got a watch from Mint. it's handmade band and it's really cute. ...or did I write my last blog on Monday...??? I don't know well anyways that was pretty much my monday so it doesn't really matter. Tuesday was an english class or two. I'm starting to really count down the days until school is over. It's bad isn't it? oh well. Alayna says I was in a bad mood but I wasn't just frustrated with some stuff. The rotary meeting was as always. Though this meet was really sparse with the members. Thankfully my sexy waiter was there as always to fill my glass. He gets me through the really long meetings. I also got a little worried as my club forgot to bring money to pay me, while I had spent all my money in Rayong thinking I would get paid. I wouldn't have had any money for lunches but thankfully they were able to get the money together for me on time at the end of the meeting.
Wednesday was Chinese New Year and so I was able to skip school for the day. I didn't personally get to do anything exciting except clean my room though I did hear fire crackers going off all day and people celebrating since more then half the people are chinese descendants.
Thursday was back to school. When we went o go bug Howard in the teachers lounge he started the joke of him being a huge sexist pig. It was great fun and it went on for possibly an hour of him teasing me and me writing lines of "I will not lie to Howard because he has a gorgeous ass". That's our day right there for you folks. After school instead of going home I had to go to Alayna's for the night as my entire family went to Bangkok and they don't trust me at home alone. We took a tuk tuk to her house and we then proceeded t watch tv shows and movies. Including a cute unexpected romantic comedy with the luggage named "louise" a cute movie with a lot of good lines...if only I could remember the name.
sleeping on the floor gave me cricks in my back like always but I made it to school that morning safe and sound... and even though i had remembered to pack all my clothes for the different days I forgot the second set of shoes so I looked like a dope walking around in my black shoes...
Ajan came up to us after lunch and asked us to perform something for the school on Valentines day. This kinda shook me up. I'm usually all for that stuff. But this time not so much from the get go. I really don't know why... in the end we were going to do 1 minute each of two dances. Soulja boy and jai ho. I'm okay with that. I think I could do it... then alayna wanted to add a korean song or a thai song to appeal to the gitoys. For some reason ti just bothered me and we got into a bit of an argument over it but I just really don't want to do the third part... it's kinda hard to explain..
Saturday... hmm saturday i woke up from one really awesome dream... sorry but I always remember my dreams and this one was really awesome and very movie like. I watched some of the free style skiing world championships on Euro Sport which was fun. I also watched it today and watched the Canadians take hone gold and silver, both mens and women's, in the duel moguls. Canada was certainly on top this year wining 8 gold medals out of the 12 categories. Made me so proud to be Canadian
The title of my blog just comes from this weeks episode of Young Justice. Man I love the show.
Anyways I think thats been my week..
also mom I'll answer you comments on this blog as I'm lazy like that. I know it was such a happy blog. The earring fiasco turned out fine though and though the piercing station we went to did have the piercing guns they sharpened the earring, the other places I seen here do the same thing.. yes cringe and shudder.
for your leg maybe you got one of those Bot larva in you like that guy on tv we saw on Koh Tao. maybe you wanna have that checked out =)
kyouhei

Hey Look, Another Injury!!!!

alright I'm a bad blogger and completely forgot the week before last and I cannot remember a damned thing about it so I'm skipping that week of my life, though I don't think it really matters. Only 3 people read my blogs.
Alright this past week Alayna and I headed out to Rayong to visit Kumi. Rayong is about 2 hours away and right on the beach. Originally when I asked my host parents they were sceptic. Alayna told me later that they had phoned Som to consult on wether I should be able to go. guess what he said. An absolute no way should I be allowed to go because it was so unsafe. Thank god Alayna's mom was able to talk to them to tell them how safe it would be.
Anyways. Saturday morning Alayna's mom came and picked me up. Then we were off to Rayong. We arrived at Kumi's host mom's hotel. We'd be staying there all week. We ate lunch and when Kumi showed up there was much hugging and laughing. Its always awesome to see another exchange student. Anyways once Alayna's parents headed off we checked into our first of three rooms. this was a really large room with 4 beds and such. We were only there for 1 night which was depressing. It was super nice and we just laid around for a few minutes before Kumi's two friends from school showed up and took us to the mall. We walked around and then we found a ear piercing place and decided, heck why not? Kumi got her ears pierced for the first time. I got a second set on my lobes, and Alayna got a second set as well as a new one in her cartilage. The lady did it by sharpening the earring then shoving it through our ear. Thank god this place was cleaner then the last place we stopped in at. After a little more of walking around and such Kumi's friends took us to the beach and said 'hey your going to go on a banana boat'. not the best thing an hour after getting your ears pierced but we thought why not. Well the lifejacket I had on decided to be a pain and rip out on of my new piercings as i fell off. Now I was down to three piercings because the hole closed before we could get a new earring in. Lame I know.
After... what did we do after? no clue. I know that night when we got back to the hotel Alayna tried to get us to watch Dead Silence. a horror about ventriloquist dummies. anyone who knows me knows those things are one of my worst fear, they give me major wiggins. The movie didn't last 10 minutes I think before we turned it off and turned on how to train your dragon. much happier.
Next morning we moved rooms into a large room with separate bedroom. We again got to hang out with Kumi's friends and again we went to the mall and again I visited the ear piercing place. I got a discount this time!!! Then we went to the night market where I got a severe case of "I'm so FAT!!!!!" After I found this one store full of amazingly beautiful tops and I couldn't fit into any of them.
The next day we were picked up by a friend of Kumi's family and were driven to a ferry. on the way we had fun waving to all sorts of people and seeing who would wave back.
When we got to the ferry we bought tickets an booked one night at a hotel on koh Samet. A tiny but pretty island. We waited quite a while for the ferry but thankfully we finally made our way out to the island and to our hotel. the hotel was little separate cabins all very close to the beach. It was kinda really expensive for what we got but what ever. After we got to our room we decided to go swimming which lasted for a very long time.  After we grabbed some dinner and by 6 o'clock we were in our rooms and well we sorta drifted in and out untill 10 when we went to bed. I woke up early so I could call Rob and wish him a happy birthday. it wasn't so much a surprise because he already knew I was going to phone.
After waking the lazy heads up we grabbed some breakfast then headed to the ferry to go back to the main land. Then there was much riding in backs of trucks where we all got sunburned...not fun.
Uhh the next day we decided we wanted to bike to the mall so we asked the hotel if we could rent bikes to bike there. what we got was two motorcycle taxis. Well we got to the mall safe and sound. We did some bowling where I lost... T_T and just walked around looking at stuff. When we went to take to motorcycles home I accidentally put my leg against the exhaust pipe... OUCH... and it was after I had a conversation with Pancho that I'm always the one to hurt myself... I cried the whole ride home but maned up and got some ice on it. I slept with ice and a towel wrapped around my leg and now it's but an ugly red mark on my leg. lets hope it goes away.
Ummm Friday I believe we were taken to an aquarium by Kumi's dad, it was small but fun as always. Then we went and hung out with the same friends.
Saturday was super lazy day. We didn't wake up till 11, so late. then we went for italian at a near by restaurant and it was super good!!! except super expensive. We also went there for dinner.. that was our day.
Then today we woke up and got picked up and vola here I am safe and sound with only 3 weeks of school left before summer break

tra la la la bamba

alright week right week.
the weekend was a little uneventful.
so monday. Monday was well monday.  I can't even really remember it lol. School was the same as always though I did give out gifts to my teachers on behalf of me and my parents. some coffee mugs, calendars and small wood statues. The people liked them (I think) so my job was done there. I also booked my flights home. I'm officially flying back on the 11th of June. In time to see people at school, my birthday, and most importantly CCEE. after school I got to hang out with mint before my class and he surprised me. I also found out Thailand has gotten to me and I've become a prude.
Tuesday... Crap, I can remember nothing of what happened at school... oh Matt stole the Canadian mug i gave to Howard. made me very distressed.
After school we we picked up by Alayna's mom and while munching on McDonalds, we headed to Bangkok for a celebration of the king at the grand palace. We made it there and took our seats. Even one of the princess' attended which was really awesome. I saw royalty!!!! She had a really cute son with her and yeah.. The show was interesting and had a lot of different aspects though english would have been much appreciated. When the show ended and everyone got ready to leave. Alayna and my eyes fell upon the sexiest man in all of thailand. he was gorgeous. He may have caught me staring.. then he watched us as we left I think to make sure we didn't stalk him..
Wednesday... why am I having such a hard time remembering???!!!
oh Wednesday, Alayna and I got to skip a class and go help MAtt with his class. we did "ask the white people questions day" Matt made up the questions and it was a lot of fun though it soon became a competition between Canada and America (like always).
Thursday was kind of the same. We helped Matt out with two of his classes which was again tons of fun. then as a thank you Matt and Howard took us out to lunch. It was just down the road but we had fun and some good conversations about life and such. I like talking with the english teachers outside of class and just about normal things.
Friday. Friday flew by pretty fast. Though something really hit me. Alayna and I were talking about her best friend Sam and how they do everything together. Then she said "except this exchange, and it was a huge mistake" I thought she meant Sam could have gone on the exchange as well. but she meant she coming on this exchange she then said "yeah, I wouldn't go back early or anything...". I won't lie and say it didn't hurt a lot, it did. I guess because I don't understand it. I don't need any single person in my life that much.
Anyways Friday after school Alayna had previously asked someone to go to the movies with her and this time it was my turn to be the third wheel. We went to see the social network, which by the way, is a really good movie. After While she said goodbye to the person I went ahead to McDonalds and ordered two bigmacs. This being part of the deal if she could ask the person in person. While I was ordering, two guys I sorta know from one of our english classes came in and ordered food. Then we started talking and they invited us to sit with them.
We had a great time. Both the guys were really nice though one couldn't speak much english. There was much joking around and stealing of fries from one another. We got to know each other better which was really nice. People from our school don't often approach us to get to know us. We found out it's because they are nervous about speaking english to us, which I think is dumb.
Alayna's mom came and picked us up and dropped me off.
I then proceeded to check my mail and I got some potentially bad news about uni and I just broke and started sobbing. A big  hug to Jess though who really helped me, as well as Mint who put up with my bad mood.
Saturday....uhhh.. well a lazy day for most of it, though at 5 P'Boat came to my door and told me I had to go to a wedding at 6.
well this wedding.. lets start with I've never been to a second-rate wedding before. The carpets leadign you into the room for the reception were stained. The chair covered were stained and ripped. The chairs were red plastic lawn chairs. The food was kinda terrible and just everything was... second best..
This is party because of the secret..very very very secret passion of wedding planning. So this wedding kinda killed me. So I got to sit there for 4 hours , not the most fun thing I could have done.
anyways that brings us to today.
sorry this blog was... lackluster on the info, my brain is a little rusty.

The Long Invasion

One Long Blog

wow...this is going to take a while to write down...

so it’s been what, 3 weeks, getting close to a month?

Having my parents in thailand was certainly interesting and a big adventure.

It started out on...well what ever day that was with my parents flight being delayed and such so I got to spend some time with Mint at tuition which is always fun.

When I finally got picked up and we finally made it to the airport and my parents plane finally landed I was getting a little excited. Finally I spotted them and I did what any self-respecting 18 year old would do. bound up and down like a 3 year old. Hugging, watering eyes and greeting were had. My parents met Som and my third host dad. we then piled into a van and were driven to our hotel, my parents were pretty bagged but we still went and walked around and down the street just to show them a little of bangkok.

anyways I’ll make the days go as short as possible.

day one: first stop was a boat tour through the klongs in bangkok. got to see a lot of neat things and more temples then we could shake a stick at. Then it was off to the grand palace where I would suggest to NEVER rent a audio tour guide (almost put me to sleep). After was.... where did we go? uuuhhh oh right we took a tuk tuk to a supposedly beautiful park that turned out to be a dud but we instead found a backpackers back alley with awesome restaurants and stalls selling great star wars t-shirts. We then went for my parents first thai massages which weren’t that bad actually though the people were a little soft on us We then got to make our way to the lrt and then to the Siam Niramit show that I went to before with Som. Both the parents were blown away by it so I did my duty.

day two. 

went to a flower market in the morning, beautiful. then we headed to chinatown and saw a movie being filmed, but wayy to crowded there. Then we tried to find a ferry, well that was an adventure all on its own but hey we finally got there. We took the ferry to Wat Po, a giant reclining buddha temple. that buddha was HUGE! and the temple itself was pretty large. went running around there and saw the cutest little french girl with blonde curls. After that we crossed the river to Wat Aran. Another temple where you could climb up and see the skyline of the city, well kinda through all the smog (gross). by that time we were all templed out and found our way back to the hotel. We then had to catch a cab to the train station. literal train station where we would take a midnight train to a city down south which I don’t remember. Anyways got onto the train and well second class was...interesting to say the least. sleeping on the train was even more interesting. Horrible sleep with my headphones constantly trying to strangle me but I couldn’t sleep without them because the train was so loud. we arrived at our stop at 4 in the morning which was not a pretty picture for me. Then we took a bus to the pier which i met an awesome sexy french guy who was backpacking and wanted to become a chemical engineer or a physiotherapist. We got on the boat and headed for Koh Tao. Our first island. when we got there... well I went into shock. That island is not thailand. It’s closer to central america. almost all white people, almost no thais. everything was in english. then there was smaller things like there were zero pictures of the king. It bugged the hell out of me at first.

anyways we checked into our hotel then went to the dive shop and wound up diving that afternoon. We took a refresher course which was good for us then went for a fun dive though the dive was a tad crappy. Then once we got out I started to feel a little sea sick and missed out on my second dive and opted to lay n the boat and sleep...and again like in Japan, I got burned... what the heck. One guy who was a younger dive master was well...gorgeous. blonde hair. tan..sorry but he’s a guy I’d love to remember.

Anyways lol made it back to the beach and I think we just puttered around the rest of the day.

Next day i opted out of diving and me and mom wandered around. Got some great photos and saw some really cool things walking around the island. Its funny. there are literally 47 dive shops on that island. it’s all just scuba diving and bars there. I also let my mom fall asleep at the pool and get burned. i swear I thought she was awake.

The next morning I felt up for diving, something felt right about it. I was the only diver withTim, a good looking guy with one smokin sexy girlfriend. We had a great dive at shark rock though i was looking up half the time hoping for a whale shark to pass over. Whale sharks are my unicorns and seeing one, well I could die happy. saw barracuda and well the dive was pretty awesome. Got back to the boat and  we were heading to our next dive site when suddenly everyone was running to the front of a boat. A pair of pilot whales were a few hundred meters away. My first whales. I was tempted to dive into the water right there. Other boats started the charge for the whales but our boat was the lucky one. one of the pilot whales literally swam under the front of the boat. he was beautiful and most of the dive masters had never seen a whale so close. I thanked Poseidon over and over in my mind for that moment. Anyways I didn’t dive the second time but snorkeled. Fun chasing the fish around and I had a good time. 

The last full day on Koh Tao was spent with my mom. we were going to do a long boat tour around the island and go to various snorkeling places. we we didn’t get a long boat. we bot a huge 30 person boat. my mom was not happy in any way. she warmed up after awhile and the day was nice. The third stop was the nicest with lots of fish and rocks and oh I ripped off the rest of my nail. it’s all now just skin and lumpy stuff, it looks great. We then were taken to twin beaches. Snorkeled and played with the underwater camera much to my pleasure. we were then taken back and met up with dad after his day dives and before his night dive. I can’t remember exactly what we di that night I think just walked around and checked stuff out.

Travel days are never really fun, but we took the ferry back and met the driver who was the owner of the hotel we were going to. Now my mom warned me it would be rustic. It was well....RUSTIC!!! It was about 2 seconds away from being the trek stop in the middle of the jungle were I was terrified of something large and furry touching my feet. well what a great way to spend christmas eve. pulled out crib but never finished the game, got talking instead to a family from singapore who was originally from england with two adorable kids. Lily and Edward. anyways we fell asleep that night listening to christmas music. 

Christmas morning was a surprise with gifts stacked nicely on the chair. I’m so grateful my parents hauled all those gifts half way around the world and all through thailand just so I could have a surprise. After I was finished opening my mom made me and my dad walk outside. then she tossed us our annual escapade. silly string. War broke out in the jungle... I think I lost this year but it was so much fun. cleaning up was not so fun. After we headed for breakfast then a boat tour of the lake near by. The lake was gorgeous, surrounded by mountains and just so beautiful. We got driven around a little then taken to our lunch stop. before lunch we were able to jump in the lake which was so nice. It was bathtub temperature and just wow. I had a fun time swimming with Lily and Edward.

After an awesome lunch we were taken to a trail where we had to hike, then take a raft, then walk to a cave. this cave beat the heck out of the cave in costa rica by a long shot. it was small but so beautiful marred only by lily constantly going “can we go out of the cave?”. After a walk back and such we parted ways with the other family who were sleeping on a floating house on the lake for a night while we headed back to the shack cough i mean treehouse. It was a very different christmas though I’m lying to my mom saying “Worst. Christmas. Ever” comic book man style.

An early wake up and catching a minibus to a pier, with waiting and booking of more flights we then made it onto a much older, unsafe ferry. during to boat ride the people turned off the air conditioning...they must have been heartless to do that. Anyways our next stop. Koh Phi Phi (said Pee Pee for those people like my father and mother). This island was beautiful and well think of it like taking Koh Tao and mixing half thailand in. There were no cars, and lots of streets to walk through. we spent our first day just walking around. We planned a dive for the next day and got everything sorted for the rest of our trip which was nice for my parents me thinks.

The next day I was not feeling so hot so I opted out of the dive and my parents went without me. I spent the day roaming to island, walking from beach to beach. I found a little cafe and bookstore. I went browsing through the books and the first book my eyes zoomed in on. A buffy book. It was fate. I spent a great time reading and eating an awesome tuna melt before heading back. Went swimming in the ocean and cut myself on the rocks of course but it was nice. When the parents got back we went out for dinner and drinks. Went to see some fire dancing which was nice. I got volunteered for an intermission game where we had to pop other peoples balloons. It came down to me and an american. I won! take that america. I won a bucket..which liquid in it... took us awhile to get back to the hotel.

I felt a lot less then stellar in the morning and my parents left me alone in the room. I din’t make it out of bed until around 4. Once I finally got out we made it around for dinner on the other side of the island of a restaurant owned by a guy who survived the tsunami and rebuilt the restaurant from almost nothing. we bought his book which was quite interesting and saddening to hear his and other people’s accounts of what happened that day to them. 

Again with the travel days.

back on the ferry then to the airport where we flew to BKK. I said goodbye for now to my parents and returned to Sriracha as they headed north to Chaing Mai. I finally got to sleep in my own bed for the first time 3 weeks. Though only for a night as I was whisked off to alayna’s for two nights to celebrate new years. first night was swimming, then the next day was bowling, karaoke, shopping and such in Bang Sen, then back to the house for a small party, ice cream KD, and movies. at 12 we were watching Shutter Island but we paused and fist bumped the new year, and truthfully I wouldn’t have wanted to spend it with anyone else. 

I got a phone call from Mint to go to Tron with him and his sister, so me and Alayna hiked it over to Robinsons to meet them where we played air hockey and guitar hero. We then hit the movie which was awesome with great CG effects. We then got driven home by Mint’s parents...that was weird. Then we got taken right back to Robinsons for dinner. After I went home to my house. got to have a lazy day which was super nice after so much. 

umm Then came the day where my parents would fly into Bangkok and come out to Sriracha to visit me and my town. Som and I met them and we headed to the fancy dancy hotel that was so swanky. We were then taken to Pattaya and were shown around. We then were taken to A Tiffany’s show. dozens of Transsexuals prancing about the stage is so little clothing and with such great bodies that I was green with envy. It was a really great show and even my Dad liked it. we were taken back to the hotel and Som left us for the night. Then the adventure began. I had to find a machine to fill up my cellphone so I could contact Alayna for what time she should meet us the next day. It took 4 7/11s and finally Robinsons, but I found a place to fill my phone up. Then we went for some sushi and then it was off to bed. 

In the morning we were picked up and taken to the school by Som. we met up with Alayna and then headed to the english teachers lounge. My parents met Steve, Dino, Mat and Howard along with the other teachers I’ve grown to cherish. Som was pretty impatient and wanted to keep things moving but we were rebels and stay, an hour maybe lol. Howard was his usual charming self towards Som, man Howard your great. Anyways we then went to see my three host family houses. Then I got to realize. My third host family is so far outside of town. It actually hurt thinking about it. I just I don’t want to move. I love my second host family so much They re so nice and so like a family. I also like being in town. I can go places easily and just ugh... I’m not really excited to move. 

When Som dropped us off at the hotel we made our way to robinsons were my parents got some massages and we went to MK’s for lunch. Then there was swimming in the very cold pool and much underwater photo taking. After we had to go to our club’s roatary meeting. They had this nice party for them with gifts and a fancy dinner and all these things that I didn’t get when I got there. It hurt a little. It was a nice dinner though when it came time for speeches I was told to go up, earlier in the day Som had questioned my ability to give speeches and, man I had to show him up, supposivly I did very nicely. There were much speeches and talking on pomp during the evening. After the meeting we all had full body massages which was super duper nice. We had to find our own way back to the hotel through back alleys...scary stuff.

In the morning we had the fancy breakfast anf then went for a walk to the floating island.   We played around with the turtle pond which held good sized green and hawk bill turtles, we met a man who was wearing a texas shirt but actually lived in Canmore!!! woohoo. We talked and at one point he said “the three best years of my life were spent in Texas” and I couldn’t help but say “how depressing”. he just threw his head back and laughed. 

We had a coffee with some of my teachers who gave a gift to my parents and then we rushed to Swensons for icecream before making it back to the hotel and sending my parents off. I didn’t even tear up this time because really, 5 months isn’t that long.

Got to take a tuk tuk home, that was interesting

Got two days of school which seemed extremely mundane after a month of non school and many adventures, but it was fun. won a chesire clock out of the new years gift exchange in my class.

Having my parents here was an experience and I’m glad they came. This also marks my half way point through my exchange. I’ve learned so much already and made so many memories. I cannot wait for the rest of my exchange and everything it will bring me

I Win Scrabble with Names of Magical Creatures

Alright this is going to be short since my week has mostly been uneventful..I think...
Anyways way back to..wow...last Tuesday.
Well I had to go to school...for the two days that school was actually open in the week...what the hell...
There was a bonus I got taken to school on a motorcycle which made me happy, there goes my host Grandpas rules down the drain.. (I feel very free saying that)
Anyways during the morning assembly one of the teachers came up to me and told me she was taking me with some students to the university of Bang Pra... for what well I had yet to figure it out. Of course alayna wasn't at school as she talked her way out of going to school for two days
Anyways we piled into the cage trucks and took off..
when we got there I was finally filled in on what was going on... It was an engineering and agricultural engineering expo...son of a gun... Two of the things I will never in my life be interested in... so I got to spend the first half of the day looking at stuff that I've seen hundreds of times before in 4-H I thought I would die of boredom.
After lunch it got slightly better with running around with some of the girls and looking at all these different stalls selling plants and puppies. There were some really adorable puppies, you just wanna pick them up and squeeze them. That was about the only exciting thing at school.
When I went to check my e-mails after school I had quite the experience. This was the first time I went to the school while they were actually teaching classes. I got lots of stares from the little kids. P'Boat's wife made some of the kittle kids come ask me questions about where I was from and what my name was.
Later on the older kids started coming for classes and two of the boys actually came up and started talking to me. One of the boys had thick glasses and has a name I cant pronounce.  The other is a pretty cute boy named Mint. Mint can speak amazing english as he studied in India for two years. We got talking about all sorts of things as he was really nice.

Anyways Wednesday was a normal school day.. pretty boring if you ask me. mostly sitting around and just bla bla bla. The only exciting part was talking with the english teachers during my last free. At one point the very sexy secretary who usually works downstairs came up and of course all the boys were making comments about her, and who wouldn't. Then one of the thai teachers caught them talking about her and so the thai teachers went on to make fun of them. Howard got so flustered, it was great.

Thursday...what was thursday even about..oh right. Well it was my first day off school so I sat around watching SVU and just laying around, though when I went to go check my e-mails Mint was there and this time we traded phone numbers and he asked me to go to a movie with him, chronicles of Narnia, we had a good talk but I had to leave early because I had to attend a thai wedding...on a thursday? what? lol well I got all dressed up though no dress this time and we headed out with another family from rotary to the wedding. The reception was taking place at this huge hotel and there was maybe 1000 guests, what the hell? the actual wedding had taken place a few days before in the traditional thai style so the bride was only in her dress for maybe 5 hours? in my opinion not worth all the money they spent on this thing. The bride looked lovely though..
There was no dancing, almost no drinking, it didn't even feel like a wedding... It was so boring.. never again.
Friday...what was friday... I think avery boring day of  nothingness... Saturday was the same I think. Sunday well I finally got a hold of Alayna and we planned for a 2 night sleep over which we do so often. Anyways she showed up and we went about watching criminal minds and yes man.
The next day after I finally woke her up we went to check my e-mails and she was able to meet Mint..She couldn't stop teasing me that time... It was kinda funny.
anyways after we decided to go swimming in my pool. It's actually pretty clean for an outdoor pool. We had fun splashing and listening to music as we swam around. at one point the back of Alayna's earring fell off and we had the adventure of retrieving it from the bottom of the pool
we then sat around and just talked, I also introduced her to PM which she also fell for with his irresistible
charm.
tuesday well this day was fun. I woke up around 10, like usual while Alayna was still Asleep I watched a couple of movies then decided to go check my e-mails. Mint was there waiting for his class to start so we started talking and while I checked my e-mails he pulled out..math scrabble...I thought things couldn't get any nerdier lol. I poked fun at him for it When his friend with the glasses showed up they put away the math scrabble and pulled out normal scrabble. thats when I made the bet with Mint that if he lost the game I would never talk to him again. He was trying pretty hard... until I started helping his friend. We won the game with me just being able to spell ENT, like the tree guys from LOTR. He lost gracefully and I decided to still talk to him. Anyways I went back to the house around 1 thinking Alayna would still be awake. nope. I woke her up at 2 and we sat around until4 when she finally got out of bed and got ready. then we headed over and met up with Mint.
We took a tuktuk to the mall. We first bought our tickets, and holy crap it was so cool they had a touch screen where you chose your seats and it was so cool!!!!! my and Alayna were both amazed. After we hit Swensons because we had some time before the movie. There was much stealing of bananas and kicking Alayna under the table.
The movie theatre was looked pretty normal. Though right before the movie started we had to stand and show respect to the king...in a movie theatre huh? It was a little different. Anyways the movie was great, though different from the book, still great and I want to go back and read the book again for the first time in a long time.
We then headed to the cheap movie store and bought some stuff. I bought Juno for Alayna as her christmas present and she got me an Optimus Prime phone charm. I also got a little bunny with my birthday on its sweater, you know one of those things that they have for every day. Though Alayna couldn't remember my birthday and almost bought me the wrong date.
Alayna's parents picked us up at the mall and we headed home. I bid alayna a merry christmas  and sent her off past the scary dog.
Anyways now I'm just fiddling around. as I need to do laundry and start packing before my parents get here on friday though my grandpa wants to pick me up at 8:45 when the drive is only an hour and my parents plane doesn't land until after 11...wtf... I'm sorry but I'm so glad I moved host families like you would not believe...
alright I'll let you go
Kyouhei

This is My Girlfriend (crap)

alright alright alright
wayyy back to Monday  believe.
So originally I thought that I didn't have school all week due to exams going on, funny enough I found out sunday night that I would be going to school the next day as exams had been moved to December.
So thought...dang it...
Anyways got to school and banged my toe around a couple of times before first class even started and I thought maybe this wasn't going so well, then I found out Alayna wasn't there, she was still under the belief that we had this week off, so course she was in bed. Well just great.
I phoned my Grandpa to ask if he could pick me up after third period, all I had after lunch was triple dance and triple dance is not something I'm doing with my toe, third also because Howard had threatened me that if I didn't go to that certain class well he'd make me write lines everyday for the rest of the year...so I went.
The boys in that class are complete jerks... they were picking on this one boy and just...ugh it was so rude...
I also realized my brain was just not in school mode, it was still in trip mode, where everyone spoke awesome english and just it was so weird to get back to reality...
Anyways I got home and talked to my Grandpa and was able to get tuesday and wednesday off for my foot to get better. So I sat around...Then one of my friends suggested I watch Young Justice, a new tv show thats coming out with marvel sidekick characters...I LOVED IT!! I'm now in a complete batman and robin zone and I really want to go find the movies from the 90s...
So I spent the next two days sitting around watching mostly romantic comedies and Batman cartoon movies...
Finally Thursday rolled around and I actually had to go to school... though seriously It was one boring day...School just seemed pretty bland next to the trip..
Friday after school I had to start packing...not fun... It was a huge pain to collect everything I've got and stuff fit into some suitcases and a couple of plastic bags. thankfully I got everything together, though I stayed up a little late just thinking about the good and the bad of this family that I've spent the last 3 months with, truthfully the things I'm going to miss the most will be Koon Took and the dogs..and having my own house, that was pretty kick ass...
anyways I also woke up early on Saturday as I had to finish packing the little stuff like paperwork I've collected. I got to have a good Skype convo with Kathryn as I packed so that was nice.
It was horrible moving all my stuff down stairs.. I will not envy myself trying to lug that suitcase through the airport.
I was ushered out to the car to put all my stuff in it... I also had to say goodbye to the dogs, and man can Koon Took give one hell of a hug or what... (I'm tearing up as I write this I'm really gonna miss that lady) Anyways it was sad pulling away from the house and just driving to my new house. I got pretty nervous about the whole thing..
When we pulled up the the house there was actually no one there, they were all down the street at the store they own or the school.
Once someone finally arrived I was shown inside and to my room where I could put all my stuff. Then I had to say goodbye to my first host family...actually it was very stiff and awkward... shaking of hands and nods, nothing really emotional.
Anyways I'll describe my new house. well first off I got a pool!! woot for those hot days when you can't help but melt. I have my own room opposite the bathroom that everyone shares, thats gonna take some time to get used to as I haven't shared a bathroom with anyone for 4 years. I also have a TV in my room that has 60 channels, 10 of them seem to be english, though most of them are Australian news channels and Eurosport, though I do have the universal tv show channel which means tons of law and order...
So I got settled into my room, unpacking clothes and such, then I was taken to the mall to pick up food for breakfasts.
I also got to meet most of the people who will be in my life.
first there is my host dad and host mom, neither of them can speak a whole lot of english but they are both very nice and I'm so glad they took me in.
They have two kids, both in their 30s
First is their son who has a wife and a two month old son named PM (though I always want to call him 2PM after the korean pop band).  They live in the house with me and my host parents, though I have a feeling these people will feel more like my host parents then my actual host parents. Then there is the second brother and his wife. Both of them are really nice. the son can speak more english then his wife, but his wife is really nice.
I also can remember none of their names...crud
anyways I was taken out by the second brother as means of getting me out of the house. though I didn't know he was the second brother at the time, and he took me to this near empty construction site outside of the city and for some reason I just felt fear race through me, maybe watching 5 episode of Law and Order SVU right before the car ride had something to do with it... maybe lol
Anyways after I was taken back home and I was told that I would be going with the family to dinner with all of my host mom's side of the family.. I thought maybe a small family? well we arrived at the restaurant to maybe 30 people... oh god.. Though as soon as I sat down it actually felt like a family dinner. There were so many people of all different ages. quite a few who are just a few years older then me. A set of twin girls who are 21 and super pretty. Some boys including a really cute guy and one guy that reminds me of the godfather for some reason. There were also two boys who were younger then me and some much younger kids. the youngest of the cousins being 8. there were I think 15 cousins, 6 original kids and the grandmother of them all. Then Pm is the first grandkid of them all.
Anyways we had dinner and much talking in thai was done. everyone was really nice and tried talking to me, including the cutie who turned out to have the name Champ.
Even though it felt like a family, that I may not be a part of yet but will be someday, well I got overwhelmed at one point and had to take a breather.
Anyways I was super tired by the end and slept the whole drive home.
The next day I woke up and got taken to the store o meet one of my many host aunts who lives in Bangkok, she is the mother of the twins and the Godfather guy. Well them Along with Champ and his family were all going to the Zoo for father's day. Fathers day is also the King's birthday. Well we all met up at the Grandmother's place which was nice. At one point I knew that the twins and Champ were talking about me in Thai (it's always pretty easy to tell) anyways one of the twins turned to me and said "he would like to talk to you but he is shy" and I just had to say "well he should try talking to me, I'm not that scary" great going me.
anyways we headed out towards the zoo only to hit major traffic..which turned out to be everyone else heading to the zoo. I now realize why My parents tended to opt of of going places on holidays..the zoo was a mad house, just full of people and cars. Anyways we walked around, saw some shows, one of them was just showing animals that people could go up and hold. When they brought out a rather large looking snake I was the only one to raise their hand. The two guys running the show seemed pretty surprised but the snake was so beautiful...

Hmmm what else, well I finally got around to talking to Champ, he's super nice and really funny and said we should hang out sometime, maybe go to a movie..then I found out he had a girlfriend (son of a gun) oh well we had some good talks about his schooling which he just completed and such. It was really fun going to the zoo with this group of people. It felt more like a family thing...
Then once we headed out from the zoo I was dropped off and met by the first son who then took me to another family dinner, this being the Dad's side of the family and it sure reminded me of my Dad's side of the family. everyone older then me or younger then me, no one really near my age. It was nice though and there was a ton of good food. Then we went outside to watch the fireworks for the king's birthday, man these were good fireworks with some awesome sounds. I was quite a ways away from where they were setting them off but have the explosions shook glass and one both pushed a door slightly and literally hit me with a force it was so loud...it was awesome!!!!
I got taken home early as I was super sleepy but the best part was... I was taken home on a motorcycle!!!!!! ef yeah!!!! It seems that its okay if it's a family member which makes my day.
I stayed up kinda late watching Law and Order and Fashion Tv.
Today I finally got internet access as there is no wireless internet in my house and I got a new cellphone which is really nice, it was super cheap and still looks good, now I just have to go and buy that Optimus Prime cell phone charm I've been eyeing up and I'll be all set.
I was really happy my last host family took me in but this host family, this family, feels real, like I actually could fit in somewhere here... I'm so happy right now...
anyways sorry for the random blog, my mind isn't in one place long enough for me to make this a good blog entry
Kyouhei