Northern Thailand!

Okie! So looking back I realize I need to start from the beginning... I haven't talked about next year at all yet. About a year and a half ago I started considering going on a student exchange for a year after highschool. I can't remember if there was one thing that was the main initiator of this thought, but I know it was a combination of my Aunt Barbara (who went on an exchange when she was in highschool), talking with exchange students at school, and a love for plane food (ha). I guess it was after I came back from Brazil in the fall of 2007. So maybe it was longer ago than I thought when I started thinking about an exchnage! Wowie.


Anyways so I started filling out application papers last summer, and in the last four or five months I've been in closer touch with the exchange program. I was interviewed and accepted late last year and then told in January that I was going to Thailand! We more or less got to chose where we would go; we ranked a list of about forty countries in the order of our preference, and based on this and the number of spaces available in each country, we got placed. Thailand was in my top 5... they were: Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Thailand. I was reaaally super happy to get put in Thailand. It was definetly a surprise, but the more I thought about it (and it only took a few minutes) the more I realized what an AWESOME place Thailand would be to live in for a year!


One thing I need to work on is the language. I was expecting to learn spanish or portuguese for my exchange, so I jumped the gun a bit and started studying before I knew where I was going. Well... that isn't completely true. I know some portuguese and spanish is similar... so I was assuming I was doing the right thing by continuing brazilian portuguese. Oh well. I'll use it one day! But ....Thai ....is a very different language (which I've recently come to discover). It would be cool to be in a Thai-speaking school, and not an english one, because I would probably catch on to the language so much faster! It sounds like it would be a really cool language to speak fluently.


Anyways, the most recent news is that I have a better idea of where I will be living! And I don't know much about Thailand, but this is the area I was hoping to go to :D The place I was hoping I wouldn't get placed was in a big city. The only one I know is Bangkok. There's gotta be more out there, though! I would definetly like to spend a day or a weekend in Bankok, but I was relieved not to be living there for a year. The clean air of Chiang Mai sounds delicious!

Saudades de vc ....mas talvez da proxima vez, ne.

Questions

Is it okay to explode on facebook? Would it be acceptable for me to fill in my "what am I doing" line with: HJkfhdskjfhjkghASfkj? It's iffy, right. I mean every "friend" that I have on fbook has access to this status of mine and would most likely get the wrong impression of my general attitude towards life. Not very fair to me, or to them. But then where can one explode? On a blog? No. Who sees this blog? I don't know..... so wouldn't it just be better to keep it inside of me and let my head errupt gradually (or not so gradually) in front of the people I know and love the most? I actually DON'T know! But something tells me this isn't the answer. If you have a solution, please contact me.

Since when has everyone known everything about everyone else? Who decides how far is too far, and who is anyone to say what anyone else should or should not be doing? We know who we are..... why do we need people to say it isn't "like us" to do or say something; how do they know? They've only known me for short intervals at a time, so why would I care if someone told me that it's "out of my norm" to do something? They don't know the context of my life. No one knows exactly where you're coming from. No one but yourself.

I have problems, okay. I try my best to make my entries as happy and optimistic as possible. But the truth is! who can truthfully say that they feel happy all the time? No one that I know feels happy all the time. Not me! You know.... one of those days when you wake up, look in the mirror, think: Man, I'm ugly. Miss the bus. Over-react in every possible situation. Try to act a certain way in front of certain people. Go through the motions. SURE... I know I've been there. In fact this is one of those jolly days! Not every one of the aforementioned events happened to me all in this day, but they occur often enough to result in days when I feel like... poop. And they SUCK.

Okay....... making a list of reasons not to be grumpy/mildly depressed:

1. I'm full. I had so much to eat today it's funny

2. I know I'll have an awesome sleep tonight. Stayed up late last night working on French project therefore a good night can be almost guarenteed.

3. I have the BEST semester EVER. I have Lankin teaching me chem, a physed class that isn't half bad, a spare!, and French. So slack

4. Tudo que preciso e tudo que tenho.

5. I'm going to travel the world! There's no limits.... free and able to do as I please with my time.

6. I have friends that I know no matter what happens to me, they will be there.