Hey everyone!
I am sitting at the Seoul, South Korea airport waiting for our flight home. We had a great time in Bangkok last night and all day Sunday. We did lots of shopping. We had a scare when Emily lost her camera and she was so upset by it all day but it turns out she left it on the plane from Phuket to Bangkok and the airline had it!!
Our hotel that my mama picked out had free breakfast and was very nice. They called us taxis for cheap and were so helpful.
After we got done with all our shopping at the weekend market we headed back to the hotel to pick up our bags. We rode in a tuk-tuk and when the guy got to the beginning of the hotel road he stopped and asked for more money and when we said no, you knew where you were taking us when we agreed to a price, he kicked us out and made us walk from block 1 to block 48. Ugh. I have never had a blister on my feet till this day.
We have had smooth sailing and I just want to thank everyone who has been following my blog and praying for us. I love you all so much! I will have pics up soon and on facebook so stay tuned if you want!
Special thanks to my mom and John for all their support and also to Emily's parents who helped us out immensely with flights and tips!!!
I love you all and can't wait to see you soon!
~love, Michelle
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The Beaches
Hey all!
We are sitting in the Phuket airport awaiting our flight...which has not been cancelled...yay!! I only get ten minutes so I gotta make this quick. We spent the last two days on Koh Phi Phi and it was amazing. Sure enough our one full day there we had crap weather and I got hit with the travellers curse and I will leave it at that. We met tons of cool people and had loads of fun. We actually met some Americans and they are from Denver and Miami. We met some English lads and they taught us some pretty sweet lingo to use now. We both loaded up with sunscreen a ton all day but both managed to still get sunburns. We danced on the beach and swam a lot and got great pics. The water is pristine and the beaches are white sand beaches.
Anyway more to come later but I gotta catch the flight.
I love and miss you all!!
~Michelle
We are sitting in the Phuket airport awaiting our flight...which has not been cancelled...yay!! I only get ten minutes so I gotta make this quick. We spent the last two days on Koh Phi Phi and it was amazing. Sure enough our one full day there we had crap weather and I got hit with the travellers curse and I will leave it at that. We met tons of cool people and had loads of fun. We actually met some Americans and they are from Denver and Miami. We met some English lads and they taught us some pretty sweet lingo to use now. We both loaded up with sunscreen a ton all day but both managed to still get sunburns. We danced on the beach and swam a lot and got great pics. The water is pristine and the beaches are white sand beaches.
Anyway more to come later but I gotta catch the flight.
I love and miss you all!!
~Michelle
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Relaxation in Thailand
Hello all!
I am writing to you in an internet cafe right on the beach road in Ao Nang, Thailand just outside of Krabi. It is beautiful here. We got in today and before that we were in the jungle.
We made our way out of Phuket on Monday and little did we know, the last bus to Khao Sok National Park left at 1:30 PM. We got there at 2. We searched desperately to find another way there that did not involve spending 3000 B on a taxi (or like almost $100 US). We finally found a trval agent that had a minibus leaving at 3 for Surat Thani and it would drop us off somewhere where we would get picked up by another bus to go to Khao Sok. We took our extremely bumpy, fast minibus ride ( I was so nauseous, duh, praise Jesus for Dramamine) and got dropped off at this ghetto restaurant for almost two hours waiting for our next bus. The lady running the place apperently did some travel agent work herself. We saw so many minibusses go by and finally ours, the only thing going to Khao Sok, picked us up. We got to the place in the jungle that we were staying called Our Jungle House. It was awesome, the reception and restaurant are in this open air room right on the edge of the river. It has dim lighting and candles. I almost feel like I am sitting in the restaurant at Disneyland inside Pirates but it is the real thing!!!!
We got dinner, our first Phad Thai in Thailand, and it is different. It is almost cheesy....? We also got Thai iced tea...AMAZING!! The ambience is so great. We sign up for the elephant trek and head off to bed.
Our room is really cool up in a treehouse. It has lots of openings for critters and bugs which I never really noticed that night. We had a mosquito net and thank goodness for that. The next morning we got up early to get breakfast before we left for the elephant farm at 7:45. I got banana stuffed pancakes (i could have died...so good) and a sickningly sweet iced coffee with no milk (cuz my malaria pills wont let me have dairy within an hour of taking them). We drove off along with a young German couple to go to the elephants. We got there and one was getting a bath in the river!! It was sprawled out relaxing as a man washed him. We got put onto a two person bench on top of the elephants back and we were off. Our guide walked behind us yelling out commands to our dumbo. The German couple and their guide was behind us. It was so amazing. We were bouncing around giggling trying to take pictures. We walked through rivers and up hills and through thick jungle. It got a little scary when we went downhill because even though we had a seatbelt on, Em and I slid forward really fast and struggled to stay on. We stopped for a break after like half an hour and the guides showed us the biggest spider I have ever seen in real life. It was a bit bigger than my hand stretched out. Yuck!!! At least is was way up high away from us.
We got back on to head back and this time we got to one at a time ride on dumbo's shoulders, our legs on eigther side of his head. This was one of the coolest moments of my life thus far. It was like it was just me and dumbo here just walking through the jungle.
We got lots of pics and I am excited to show everyone. After that we fed him bananas an said goodbye. Sad. The rest of the afternoon was spent napping and relaxing in the restaurant area right next to the river. It was so nice cuz they had a smallish library where you cann just read books or take one on your travels. We sat around snaking on different menu items and drinking cokes and reading for hours on end. It was so relaxing and I almost finished a whole novel in that time. We went to bed and this is where the night turned sour for me. I got into bed and we both were reading more of our books by flashlight, safe in our mosquito net. But I start getting really itchy and uncomfortable and Emily is scraed because there are tons of creepy weird buugs and buzzy bugs all over her side of the outside of the netting. Yuck! I got sleepy and dozed off and woke up an hour later to the sound of someone coming up the stairs trying to get into our room. I wake up more and don't hear anything but now I am awake wide eyed. I am itchy everywhere. We have bedbugs and they bit! Grr I am so tired but cannot relax. I fall asleep again and later I wake up to what sounds like something falling from way up high crashing down on the floor by the bed. Wow, I am scared. I toss and turn and notice Emily is doing the same but at least she is still somewhat asleep. I fall asleep and this time it is good till morning but once I get up I am too scared to get out of the netting to see what large creature fell out of the rafters....or to see if my legs are covered in bites. I peek out and find nothing except a small bag of candy I had near my pillow that must have been the loud sound dropping to the floor.....Or the huge evil monkey found a way out. I have no bites either.
We get up have breakfast and I get crepes stuffed with Papya, bananas and pineapple. Amazing but the honey inside attracts a swarm of bees. We have to move and leave a plate of honey to distract them.
We took a minibus to Krabi this morning and then a cheap public taki to Ao Nang. Our hotel is awesome with AC and an actual bathtub. We went to the beach and it is amazing. The water is so warm, warmer than Hawaii by far and the beach is great. We can see tons of other islands and large rock formations sticking out of the water around the islands. We swam a lot. My shoulders burned and Emily is okay but more freckly. We bought a ferry ticket to Phi Phi Island for tomorrow morning and we are just gonna go try and find a market now.
I cannot wait to come home and see everyone....especially at my mom's wedding!! Also, I think things are better now but please be praying for a safe smooth travel home because there have been problems with the Phuket airport and political protestors. Pray that we get to come home on time!!
I love you all very much and I will write back from Bangkok in two days!!
~Michelle
I am writing to you in an internet cafe right on the beach road in Ao Nang, Thailand just outside of Krabi. It is beautiful here. We got in today and before that we were in the jungle.
We made our way out of Phuket on Monday and little did we know, the last bus to Khao Sok National Park left at 1:30 PM. We got there at 2. We searched desperately to find another way there that did not involve spending 3000 B on a taxi (or like almost $100 US). We finally found a trval agent that had a minibus leaving at 3 for Surat Thani and it would drop us off somewhere where we would get picked up by another bus to go to Khao Sok. We took our extremely bumpy, fast minibus ride ( I was so nauseous, duh, praise Jesus for Dramamine) and got dropped off at this ghetto restaurant for almost two hours waiting for our next bus. The lady running the place apperently did some travel agent work herself. We saw so many minibusses go by and finally ours, the only thing going to Khao Sok, picked us up. We got to the place in the jungle that we were staying called Our Jungle House. It was awesome, the reception and restaurant are in this open air room right on the edge of the river. It has dim lighting and candles. I almost feel like I am sitting in the restaurant at Disneyland inside Pirates but it is the real thing!!!!
We got dinner, our first Phad Thai in Thailand, and it is different. It is almost cheesy....? We also got Thai iced tea...AMAZING!! The ambience is so great. We sign up for the elephant trek and head off to bed.
Our room is really cool up in a treehouse. It has lots of openings for critters and bugs which I never really noticed that night. We had a mosquito net and thank goodness for that. The next morning we got up early to get breakfast before we left for the elephant farm at 7:45. I got banana stuffed pancakes (i could have died...so good) and a sickningly sweet iced coffee with no milk (cuz my malaria pills wont let me have dairy within an hour of taking them). We drove off along with a young German couple to go to the elephants. We got there and one was getting a bath in the river!! It was sprawled out relaxing as a man washed him. We got put onto a two person bench on top of the elephants back and we were off. Our guide walked behind us yelling out commands to our dumbo. The German couple and their guide was behind us. It was so amazing. We were bouncing around giggling trying to take pictures. We walked through rivers and up hills and through thick jungle. It got a little scary when we went downhill because even though we had a seatbelt on, Em and I slid forward really fast and struggled to stay on. We stopped for a break after like half an hour and the guides showed us the biggest spider I have ever seen in real life. It was a bit bigger than my hand stretched out. Yuck!!! At least is was way up high away from us.
We got back on to head back and this time we got to one at a time ride on dumbo's shoulders, our legs on eigther side of his head. This was one of the coolest moments of my life thus far. It was like it was just me and dumbo here just walking through the jungle.
We got lots of pics and I am excited to show everyone. After that we fed him bananas an said goodbye. Sad. The rest of the afternoon was spent napping and relaxing in the restaurant area right next to the river. It was so nice cuz they had a smallish library where you cann just read books or take one on your travels. We sat around snaking on different menu items and drinking cokes and reading for hours on end. It was so relaxing and I almost finished a whole novel in that time. We went to bed and this is where the night turned sour for me. I got into bed and we both were reading more of our books by flashlight, safe in our mosquito net. But I start getting really itchy and uncomfortable and Emily is scraed because there are tons of creepy weird buugs and buzzy bugs all over her side of the outside of the netting. Yuck! I got sleepy and dozed off and woke up an hour later to the sound of someone coming up the stairs trying to get into our room. I wake up more and don't hear anything but now I am awake wide eyed. I am itchy everywhere. We have bedbugs and they bit! Grr I am so tired but cannot relax. I fall asleep again and later I wake up to what sounds like something falling from way up high crashing down on the floor by the bed. Wow, I am scared. I toss and turn and notice Emily is doing the same but at least she is still somewhat asleep. I fall asleep and this time it is good till morning but once I get up I am too scared to get out of the netting to see what large creature fell out of the rafters....or to see if my legs are covered in bites. I peek out and find nothing except a small bag of candy I had near my pillow that must have been the loud sound dropping to the floor.....Or the huge evil monkey found a way out. I have no bites either.
We get up have breakfast and I get crepes stuffed with Papya, bananas and pineapple. Amazing but the honey inside attracts a swarm of bees. We have to move and leave a plate of honey to distract them.
We took a minibus to Krabi this morning and then a cheap public taki to Ao Nang. Our hotel is awesome with AC and an actual bathtub. We went to the beach and it is amazing. The water is so warm, warmer than Hawaii by far and the beach is great. We can see tons of other islands and large rock formations sticking out of the water around the islands. We swam a lot. My shoulders burned and Emily is okay but more freckly. We bought a ferry ticket to Phi Phi Island for tomorrow morning and we are just gonna go try and find a market now.
I cannot wait to come home and see everyone....especially at my mom's wedding!! Also, I think things are better now but please be praying for a safe smooth travel home because there have been problems with the Phuket airport and political protestors. Pray that we get to come home on time!!
I love you all very much and I will write back from Bangkok in two days!!
~Michelle
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thailand!!
Hey everyone!
I don't have much time to say a whole lot because internet is expensive here. We finally made it to Phuket yesterday afternoon after being stuck inside the Bangkok airport for 13 hours due to a political strike in Phuket. It is amazing here. There are a lot of tourists which makes it easy to find our way around and ask around about the best places to go.
Our room for our first night was pretty nice. The bed was so comfortable after sleeping on the what felt like concrete lined matresses in India. We went out last night to dinner and then went out. It has been fun so far!!! Today we go to our jungle huts and I will come back to tell more in a couple days!
I love you and miss you all!!
~Michelle
I don't have much time to say a whole lot because internet is expensive here. We finally made it to Phuket yesterday afternoon after being stuck inside the Bangkok airport for 13 hours due to a political strike in Phuket. It is amazing here. There are a lot of tourists which makes it easy to find our way around and ask around about the best places to go.
Our room for our first night was pretty nice. The bed was so comfortable after sleeping on the what felt like concrete lined matresses in India. We went out last night to dinner and then went out. It has been fun so far!!! Today we go to our jungle huts and I will come back to tell more in a couple days!
I love you and miss you all!!
~Michelle
Friday, August 29, 2008
Our Last Days in India
Hello all!
I am writing you on our last night in India. I am so excited to leave. I can only handle being sweaty and hot and rained on and hungry for so long. These last few days have been rough. After the last blog I wrote we went back to our hotel and the power was out. It stayed out until 12:30 AM. We had no fan and it might have been our hottest night here. Emily and I layed as still as possible in our underwear for a long long time because I was about to flip out on someone or something. Do you ever get in one of those situations of being hot and uncomfortable that you just might kill to get cool? That was me. Emily fell asleep pretty quick but I layed there staring up at the motionless fan so angry. I layed awake till the power came on. Then I was okay.
We went to school and I got in trouble with the teacher. She doesn't do anything and even sometimes sleeps and when I tried coloring with my boy for the last ten minutes of class, she came and took the book that we were copying from away. Haha.
Yesterday Emily and I spent the afternoon just lying around the room and also started packing. We bought sweets from our sweet shop and I bought a banana...it was amazing. We hung out in the room and had dinner and ate our sweets and then watched one of my favorite movies on tv: Life Is Beautiful. I hate when the movie has been dubbed over in English but we somehow managed to watch it.
Today at school it was one of the boys birthdays, thank goodness. Someone got a cake and lots of little treats for everyone. We sang and it was a lot of fun. We worked for a little over an hour and then the teacher said it was time to go....it was 45 minutes before we normally leave. We said our final goodbyes to the kids who hadn't already run off to their houses. While waiting for our train it started to downpour on us. We got on to whichever train car was closest and it happened to be the vendor car. This is where all the men that are moving whatever fodo or nasty thing they sell into the city. I got on and there was no room but I had Emily by the hand and she was barely in...it is still pouring outside during all of this chaos. I finally was able to pull Emily on just before we started moving. She said the only thing she was holding onto was my hand and barely because it was wet. This car smelled like a mix between nasty old cigarette and barnyard animals. I covered my nose with my shirt AND a bandana and still smelled it. Plus it was muggy and hot inside too. I started feeling really dizzy and it was the closest I have ever been to passing out. When Emily said she saw my eyes roll into the back of me head she grabbed me and we happened to stop and we got off and got onto the next car down...the women only car. Ah this was heavenly and I suddenly felt all better. It was not crowded and the fans worked and they all smelled better.
Todays thunderstorm has been outrageous!!!! I have never seen so much lightning and heard continuous thunder like this. I mean it looked liek someone was just taking picture afetr picture with a bright flash and no letting up.
Our hotel is our of power again right now. Today is our day to finish packing and get ready for tonight so we are hoping it comes back on. Tonight we are going out to dinner with our Spanish and Japanese friends and it is going to be a lot of fun!!!
Tomorrow morning we fly out to Phuket, Thailand and we are stoked. I will write back in a couple days at the most.
Aunt Linda, your comment was so funny. Haha Rocky. I cannot wait to see you for the wedding and eat your biscuts and gravy!! I love you so much!!
I miss you all and will write back soon!!
~Love, Michelle
I am writing you on our last night in India. I am so excited to leave. I can only handle being sweaty and hot and rained on and hungry for so long. These last few days have been rough. After the last blog I wrote we went back to our hotel and the power was out. It stayed out until 12:30 AM. We had no fan and it might have been our hottest night here. Emily and I layed as still as possible in our underwear for a long long time because I was about to flip out on someone or something. Do you ever get in one of those situations of being hot and uncomfortable that you just might kill to get cool? That was me. Emily fell asleep pretty quick but I layed there staring up at the motionless fan so angry. I layed awake till the power came on. Then I was okay.
We went to school and I got in trouble with the teacher. She doesn't do anything and even sometimes sleeps and when I tried coloring with my boy for the last ten minutes of class, she came and took the book that we were copying from away. Haha.
Yesterday Emily and I spent the afternoon just lying around the room and also started packing. We bought sweets from our sweet shop and I bought a banana...it was amazing. We hung out in the room and had dinner and ate our sweets and then watched one of my favorite movies on tv: Life Is Beautiful. I hate when the movie has been dubbed over in English but we somehow managed to watch it.
Today at school it was one of the boys birthdays, thank goodness. Someone got a cake and lots of little treats for everyone. We sang and it was a lot of fun. We worked for a little over an hour and then the teacher said it was time to go....it was 45 minutes before we normally leave. We said our final goodbyes to the kids who hadn't already run off to their houses. While waiting for our train it started to downpour on us. We got on to whichever train car was closest and it happened to be the vendor car. This is where all the men that are moving whatever fodo or nasty thing they sell into the city. I got on and there was no room but I had Emily by the hand and she was barely in...it is still pouring outside during all of this chaos. I finally was able to pull Emily on just before we started moving. She said the only thing she was holding onto was my hand and barely because it was wet. This car smelled like a mix between nasty old cigarette and barnyard animals. I covered my nose with my shirt AND a bandana and still smelled it. Plus it was muggy and hot inside too. I started feeling really dizzy and it was the closest I have ever been to passing out. When Emily said she saw my eyes roll into the back of me head she grabbed me and we happened to stop and we got off and got onto the next car down...the women only car. Ah this was heavenly and I suddenly felt all better. It was not crowded and the fans worked and they all smelled better.
Todays thunderstorm has been outrageous!!!! I have never seen so much lightning and heard continuous thunder like this. I mean it looked liek someone was just taking picture afetr picture with a bright flash and no letting up.
Our hotel is our of power again right now. Today is our day to finish packing and get ready for tonight so we are hoping it comes back on. Tonight we are going out to dinner with our Spanish and Japanese friends and it is going to be a lot of fun!!!
Tomorrow morning we fly out to Phuket, Thailand and we are stoked. I will write back in a couple days at the most.
Aunt Linda, your comment was so funny. Haha Rocky. I cannot wait to see you for the wedding and eat your biscuts and gravy!! I love you so much!!
I miss you all and will write back soon!!
~Love, Michelle
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Coffee never tasted so good
Wow!
Only two more days left in India. I am kind of jumping out of my skin with joy! It is been a love/hate relationship between me and India. The things I hate outweigh the things I love BUT the things I love, I love so strongly that the two kind of meet in the middle.
Yesterday I stayed home from school because I felt really bad with my cold. Emily went on ahead with the Spaniards and Japanese. I slept more (because I hardly slept through the night with this stuffy nose) and when I woke up two hours later I felt a lot better. I watched some tv till Emily got back and after taking a few advil we decided to walk to the Babu Ghat. This is a place along the Hooghly River that has steps leading into it and people come to bring offerings and pray and bathe. This particular ghat was kinda dumpy but itwas cool to see this part of Indian culture.
We walked back to our hotel and waited for dinner. For lunches we usually ask for the noodles but now they assume that is all we ever want so we get noodles for lunch and dinner today. Em and I hardly ate any of our dinner noodles and ate some bread that we bought. Haha just bread and water for dinner.
Today, Wednesday, we got up and went to school. It was a good day at school because I was with the boy that loves to learn, Sumon, and his sister who hates to learn, was with Emily. It ended up being me and Emily helping this girl mostly (she is older than her brother and he knows so much more than her) and him working quietly by himself. The Japanese kids brought oragami papers and that took up a lot of time with the kids and gave all the other volunteers a break.
When we got back to the hotel Emily and I ate our lunch (noodles again) and headed out for a coffee shop called Barista. We had this at the airport in Bangalore and we saw it the other night when we went to Kwality way far away. During our walk it started to downpour on us and of course I am wearing tennis shoes with socks (best protection from the bugs and dirt) and khaki pants that become see through when wet. We are soaked and it is miserable and I feel like everyone is looking at my legs through these pants and that would be slutty here. Emily said I was being paranoid and I know I was but still!! We finally got to Barista and oh my gosh. I got this thing that was cold coffee with chocolate, ice cream and milk in it and it was amazing. Emily just got a straight up iced coffee with milk and chocolate. We drank/ate them in like seconds and it was heavenly after living off of just bread, noodles, and rice for two weeks. We are probably gonna get horrible stomach aches with how fast we drank them but it was worth it.
Now we are gonna go back and see what is on tv...again.
I love you and miss you all!!!!
~Michelle
PS Dawn: HAHA no I am not engaged to Rocky. Rocky=Icky
Only two more days left in India. I am kind of jumping out of my skin with joy! It is been a love/hate relationship between me and India. The things I hate outweigh the things I love BUT the things I love, I love so strongly that the two kind of meet in the middle.
Yesterday I stayed home from school because I felt really bad with my cold. Emily went on ahead with the Spaniards and Japanese. I slept more (because I hardly slept through the night with this stuffy nose) and when I woke up two hours later I felt a lot better. I watched some tv till Emily got back and after taking a few advil we decided to walk to the Babu Ghat. This is a place along the Hooghly River that has steps leading into it and people come to bring offerings and pray and bathe. This particular ghat was kinda dumpy but itwas cool to see this part of Indian culture.
We walked back to our hotel and waited for dinner. For lunches we usually ask for the noodles but now they assume that is all we ever want so we get noodles for lunch and dinner today. Em and I hardly ate any of our dinner noodles and ate some bread that we bought. Haha just bread and water for dinner.
Today, Wednesday, we got up and went to school. It was a good day at school because I was with the boy that loves to learn, Sumon, and his sister who hates to learn, was with Emily. It ended up being me and Emily helping this girl mostly (she is older than her brother and he knows so much more than her) and him working quietly by himself. The Japanese kids brought oragami papers and that took up a lot of time with the kids and gave all the other volunteers a break.
When we got back to the hotel Emily and I ate our lunch (noodles again) and headed out for a coffee shop called Barista. We had this at the airport in Bangalore and we saw it the other night when we went to Kwality way far away. During our walk it started to downpour on us and of course I am wearing tennis shoes with socks (best protection from the bugs and dirt) and khaki pants that become see through when wet. We are soaked and it is miserable and I feel like everyone is looking at my legs through these pants and that would be slutty here. Emily said I was being paranoid and I know I was but still!! We finally got to Barista and oh my gosh. I got this thing that was cold coffee with chocolate, ice cream and milk in it and it was amazing. Emily just got a straight up iced coffee with milk and chocolate. We drank/ate them in like seconds and it was heavenly after living off of just bread, noodles, and rice for two weeks. We are probably gonna get horrible stomach aches with how fast we drank them but it was worth it.
Now we are gonna go back and see what is on tv...again.
I love you and miss you all!!!!
~Michelle
PS Dawn: HAHA no I am not engaged to Rocky. Rocky=Icky
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday....Ah the Spaniards
Hey hey!
Yesterday Emily and I both woke up with really bad colds. Well maybe not really bad just annoying. It is hard because toilet paper is scarce so I am actually using one of my bandanas as a hankie and it is nasty. We both are snotty and have bad sinus pressure. We layed around most of the day yesterday because a lot of things were closed. It was relaxing. We also met the 6 new volunteers that are joining our group this week. 4 girls and 2 guys from Spain. They are so fun! They speak very little English but Spanish is something Emily and I know some words in.
Just Emily and I showed the Spaniards and the Japanese kids how to get to school today. We all piled on the train and now we have strength in numbers.
Today teaching was better. My mom told me that I came off really mean in my last blog about the kiddos but I did not mean it. I was fresh from the frustrations and I let them fly. Today Emily and I worked together with two boys: Raja and Sunom. They were very eager to learn and hardly complained. They get easily distracted but I think that comes with being a child. These kids are not orphans by the way. They get kinda snobby but I don't know why because they have so little. Maybe it is all a front.
Anyways today was good and the boys were so cute. We got back had our quick lunch of noodles and made our way to the New Market to get our Sarees. We found Rocky, who by the way I found out today really wants to be my boyfriend (scary) and helped us find the place and pick them up. He also helped us find a couple last minute things. When he invited us to a movie we decided it was time to leave. We walked back and are looking for the Spaniards now cuz we wanna hang out with them!
Overall I am so ready to leave this country. I am tired of being sweaty and stinky and hungry. I can't wait for Saturday when we fly to Thailand. I will write once or twice more before then because I olny have so many rupees left.
I love you all! Take care!
~Michelle
Yesterday Emily and I both woke up with really bad colds. Well maybe not really bad just annoying. It is hard because toilet paper is scarce so I am actually using one of my bandanas as a hankie and it is nasty. We both are snotty and have bad sinus pressure. We layed around most of the day yesterday because a lot of things were closed. It was relaxing. We also met the 6 new volunteers that are joining our group this week. 4 girls and 2 guys from Spain. They are so fun! They speak very little English but Spanish is something Emily and I know some words in.
Just Emily and I showed the Spaniards and the Japanese kids how to get to school today. We all piled on the train and now we have strength in numbers.
Today teaching was better. My mom told me that I came off really mean in my last blog about the kiddos but I did not mean it. I was fresh from the frustrations and I let them fly. Today Emily and I worked together with two boys: Raja and Sunom. They were very eager to learn and hardly complained. They get easily distracted but I think that comes with being a child. These kids are not orphans by the way. They get kinda snobby but I don't know why because they have so little. Maybe it is all a front.
Anyways today was good and the boys were so cute. We got back had our quick lunch of noodles and made our way to the New Market to get our Sarees. We found Rocky, who by the way I found out today really wants to be my boyfriend (scary) and helped us find the place and pick them up. He also helped us find a couple last minute things. When he invited us to a movie we decided it was time to leave. We walked back and are looking for the Spaniards now cuz we wanna hang out with them!
Overall I am so ready to leave this country. I am tired of being sweaty and stinky and hungry. I can't wait for Saturday when we fly to Thailand. I will write once or twice more before then because I olny have so many rupees left.
I love you all! Take care!
~Michelle
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