Lately

So I haven't written much lately, because life has been fairly slow in the past week or so. I will just write about a few random things as of late:

1. On Saturday Suzanne and I took a bus from HELL to Khon Kaen to visit our friend Kate for her birthday. The bus was infested with hundreds and hundreds of misquitoes; we were also sitting next to the fire escape so they were the worst right beside our seat. Then, a cockroach appeared on the window sill beside my seat and I flipped out and spent about a half hour clambouring and whimpering on top of Suzanne until I asked the steward to kill it. He smacked it and brushed it onto the floor, but then 5 minutes later it was up on the window sill again. I tried to kill it by squishing it with the curtain but those things just DON'T DIE! I ended up changing seats until I was kicked out when more people came on. Then, there was a wailing baby for most of the busride, so by the time we got to Khon Kaen I was exhausted, frusterated and in need of friendship. We spent a lot of time that day at the mall; I saw "Bedtime Stories" in Thai with Kalie and Veronica, and then Kalie and I played Guitar Hero [whack-a-mole style included] for about an hour before meeting everyone for dinner [aka Swensens]. Then we went to meet Kate for Karaoke at a really fancy hotel. We sang karaoke from about 8 until 1; needless to say by the end [after my frequent screamo impersonations] my voice was shot and we returned to Kate's house to sleep with four of us in one bed. The next day Suzanne and I had to come home.

2. The English teachers at my school are driving me crazy, they gossip about me to students; it's extremely childish. But that's all I am going to say on the matter - the rest is saved for my rants with Suzanne and my diary.

3. I bought a guitar book "300 Acoustic Favourites" while we were in Khon Kaen and I have been practicing every night to get better. I also bought a book of chords :)

4. School is boring - the school is having people come and judge it tomorrow for a King's award, so most of the classes are cancelled so the students can help clean the school and make it look amazing. I think it's rediculous that the school doesn't put much money into anything until they are going to be in a competition and then they go ALL out - they redid the cooking rooms with white tile floors, put up overhangs, redid the roads, painted all the bathrooms etc. etc. So, most of my classes are cancelled - quite annoying.

5. It's gotten "cold" here. I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get out of bed, and at night time I sleep with two thick blankets on top of me. I also have started wearing sweaters overtop of my uniform to school - I know it's no Canada, but for Thailand it is cold.

6. My birthday is on Sunday and I am trying to get to go see my friends in Chanthaburi where my friend Clayton is also having his birthday [on the Saturday]. Will the parents cave?

Stay tuned for our next episode!