The Saga is finished :(

So, I finally finished the Twilight Saga. I read the last 200 pages as slowly as I could. But, it is still over. I was happy with the ending, it wasn't as contrived as I thought I would be, every thing seemed very well thought out. I really envy good writers who can make you think "Wow, how did she think about all this and find a way to make it fit together so nicely?"

I really wish I could write well, and so, I have started writing. I am just writing short stories now, and I haven't finished anything... I doubt I ever will finish anything. I have no idea how to start or end a story, and my knowledge of character development is minimal at best. But I am going to read some guides and test some stuff out... who knows, one day I might post a short story here... but I think that will be years in the making. Even though I may dream of being a writer (I dream of becoming many things) I can settle for just writing stories for me :)

Anyway, I'm going to post my review of the final book from the series on my book review page and on Facebook. I have already convinced one of my friends to start reading the series and another is soon to follow, my mom even said she would check it out of the library :) So maybe you should check it out too.

So, next Monday is "Korean" New Year... in America we tend to say Chinese New Year, but I live in Korea so I have to say Korean New Year. So, for Korean New Year my beau and I are going to Jeju island, which is the biggest island off the south coast of Korea. I really don't know what to expect. It is our first domestic vacation in Korea and I'm VERY excited!!! I will be sure to post too many pictures on Facebook and maybe here too.

Love you all... so what are you reading these days? I think I'm gonna read Twilight again :)

More airline food and random Korea pics

I've been collecting a lot of pics I want to blog about, so Im going to try to upload 5 of them a day... this is the second batch!


Don't fly JAL (Japan airlines)... I was so unimpressed with the food they had to offer... this was what they gave everyone... there was no vegetarian option. Im pretty sure that stuff on the left was rice... I can't really remember... and the stuff on top of it... I have no idea what that was, but it was some kind of fish... maybe like a shell fish or shrimp... I don't know, but it had a REALLY strong smell to it! On the right were some Japanese style veggies, some were really watery like the stuff I talked about in the previous post. And there was some fruit cocktail. It wasn't really good... but maybe this is one of those low cost airlines... but for the price I didn't expect a cold meal.
This is my building the day after a fire brunt out the whole 7th floor! I was actually on my way to grab some breakfast (I wasn't working on this day) when I saw it... no one called me or anything to let me know... I was kinda shocked! But needless to say we had a few days off of work! And for the next few months the whole building reeked of toxic fumes! It was not cool... I had to throw out most of the stuff on my walls because it was covered in soot! I work on the 10th floor so nothing was burned, but the smoke got up there. And some cleaning people came through and threw away a lot of stuff that belonged to people... including me, and a lot of it was stuff that could have been cleaned and used again! I couldn't understand this. Anyway, Its all back to "normal" now and they rebuilt the 7th floor (which looks much nicer now) but there is still evidence of soot everywhere... I moved some furniture today and had to wash my hands cause they were black.


I just thought this was a funny sign... I took this picture a while ago so I cant remember where I saw it, but thats Korean above the English there so I know it had to be Korea... Kinda looks like you are washing your hands with sound waves :)
This was my alien resident card last time around... I had to return it :( so sad... If I fill out a police report and claim mine as lost then I can get a new one... but I guess thats a tad unethical... so I took a picture... its a lot easier to keep anyway.

sigh... Korea... The most interesting thing about Korea is Koreans. Here we have a group of Korean travelers (and yes I know they were Korean cause they were speaking Korean... not Japanese or Chinese or some other language) And if you look you can see they are all wearing bright yellow vests. I can only assume that is because they are part of a group and want to stick together and make it easy to find each other. This is a perfect example of Confucian traditions in action. Do not burden the group by trying to be a stylist individual when you can simplify things and sacrifice your appearance for the good of the group... hehe, this place rocks.

On a sad note... I have always said "I would love to be a published writer"... not that that means much cause I have also always said things like: "I wish I were a mermaid" "I wish I had a Pegasus" "I wish I could read minds" etc. But for some reason I feel like the idea of being a writer is slightly more attainable that those other aspirations. The other night, when I was falling asleep, I had an absolutely wonderful idea for a book.. probably more like a teen age type book... and I thought to myself "this is awesome, I will totally remember this in the morn and I can start to develop the idea on my breaks at work" Sometimes I wonder if I know myself at all... of course I have completely forgotten the idea... Its kinda like the song Tribute by Tenacious D (GOD I love them!) But, its a sad loss... perhaps someday I will come up with another great idea.. and that time I will start taking notes right away... I promise!

On Leaving Home to Go Home

So, here I am, on my big trek back to America for my high school reunion. I know most people think this is strange, but I graduated with less than 90 fellow students, so I knew most of them rather well. I have spend the last few weeks thinking about all the people I used to eat lunch with, hang out on the stage with, sleep through global studies with, and I really miss them. I was really fortunate to go to school with some really awesome people.

I know most kids have lots of tribulations in their high school career, but I was lucky. I mean, of course I experienced my fair share of drama but I really enjoyed the time I spent there, and am really looking forward to seeing people.

I have to admit, having two homes is strange... especially when they are so far apart. You don't know if you should be excited about leaving either place to go to the other or if you should be sad... Either emotion brings a certain amount of guilt with it. I guess this is just part of growing up.

--- I started this blog entry when I was sitting in the Tokyo Airport a week ago, and here I am, back again... this time on my way... home... even though both times I was on my way home... well I had a wonderful trip. Even though there were about 4-5 people I had hoped would be at the reunion that weren't I still enjoyed seeing most people again. There were a few people there that I wished were not there (I expected they would be incarcerated!) But fortunately we never talked.

I think the trip was worth it... I know its a far way to go, but once you get where you are going you completely forget about the travel (at least I do) and just enjoy your time. I was really lucky on the way back, I had a row of three seats all to myself... actually, since so few people are traveling these days there were a lot of lucky people on my flight! :) Now is the perfect time for a long dist flight :) I laid down and slept for the first 8-10 hours and then I was up for the last 2-3 watching a movie... Actually I didn't go to sleep for about the first hour or two cause there was dinner and snacks and the benadryl hadn't kicked in yet.

I do wish I didn't have to work tomorrow, but that's just the way it goes. At least I will have a lot to talk about with my students.
What did I do on my vacation?

Friday
- Fly on Korean Airlines to Tokyo(they wouldn't give me veg food cause they said I never told them LIES) but all they had was rice and beef stew... ewww
- Fly on Continental to Newark, I sat next to an Indian-American archaeologist who had an arranged marriage last year, he specialised in hand axes, it was really interesting... we were both vegetarians, so that's how we started talking
- Fly on Continental Connection to Rochester... so many open seats and I was stuck in the window seat next to this HUGE guy... I didn't want to be rude, but what should I do?
- get into America
- meet my parents at the airport
- wait for a long time at the wrong baggage carousal
- go pick up Carbones pizza
- hang out at home with Gracy, she was very excited to see me, she pee peed on the floor two times (for those of you who don't know she is a dog)
- Gracy slept in my bed all night

Saturday
- Joan came and picked me up for breakfast
- As usually I got a #10, yummy, I think Joan and I sat there for 2 hours talking
- Went to Joan's house to play with kitties then back to my parents house.
- decided to visit Joan at work tonight
- hung out at home with my mom and dad (or did we go shopping?)
- Went to reunion, saw lots of people I love and miss, and a few I didn't miss
- After the reunion I waited at home to see Joan
- Went to the hospital at 2AM to visit Joan, tried to get donuts on the way but Tim Horton's would not oblige us 12 donuts (jerks), she showed us the ICU and the patients, I watched her change the food that's pumped in through the feeding tube, she also showed us where they take the burn victims to hydrate their skin. Also, there is a toilet in a cupboard that swings out in each of the ICU rooms, really cool.
- Went home and chatted online with John and went to sleep at like 4 AM

Sunday
- Woke up early to go to Kelly's Apple farm with my parents.
- Went to my aunts farm and saw her new chickens
- Made apple crisp with my mom
- Carved two pumpkins and roasted seeds
- Had lasagna with my mom and dad
- Met my Aunt Gwen's new man and won my first game of Monopoly EVER! We had a lot of fun.

Monday
- Woke up early again to go to Panera bread with mom, had a soggy breakfast sandwich
- Did some shopping
- Started to feel sick so I went to the doctor at 12, he was really nice and thorough, that's what I expect for $110+ dollars. Turns out I don't have strep throat, just sick... again
- Went to Cheesecake factory with my fam, they gave my pasta that wasn't fully cooked so I sent it back and it never came back out. But I had a REALLY good lemon cake thing there... wow
- Went to see Changling with fam and had popcorn with real butter... I was feeling kinda sick at the onset of this night, but much better after the movie
- Sleep over at Joan's where we watched TV shows and played with kitties all night. Had some graham crackers and rice milk :):)

Tuesday
- Woke Joan up, had more graham crackers and rice milk!!! Yummy
- Went shopping with Joan, Old Navy, Dicks, Mall... I wanted jeans but didn't get any, I wanted Mirror's Edge but it wasn't out :( But I got a Sigg water bottle and NorthFace jacket (two things I really wanted)
- Go eat at Chili's, black bean burger :) Yummy
- Get home at about 3Pm, take a nap till 7ish
- Go visit Noel and Jay, hang out and talk till about 11PM... then go home.
- Stay up all night talking to mom :)

Wednesday
- Start packing at about 3:30AM of course I'm not good at this, but the suitcase was too heavy so I had to pack some of it in a box again.
-Left for the airport at 5:45AM, mom drove
- After being dropped of I moved through security very fast
- Got some McDonald's breakfast and hopped on the plane
- Fly to Newark on Continental Connection, no one next to me, the flight wasn't even half full again, almost all business guys.
- Hang out in Newark Airport, bought Twilit at the Boarders Bookstore in the airport, and I read the first 4 chapters before I even bought it... for a kids book its pretty good.
- Fly on Continental to Tokyo - I had my own row of three seats all to myself! I took some benadryl and had my dinner and passed out for about 8 hours! I got to lay down! Awesome!

Thursday
- still flying, crossed the international date line.
- Had a snack, slept again, woke up with about 3 hours left, watched CSI and a movie with Queen Latifa with breakfast.
-Now I'm at Narita Airport about to board another flight.
- Soon I will take JAL to Korea and John will meet me at the bus stop and help me bring my bags home. I cant wait!

I know I went to Kohl's with my mom, just cant remember when, I bought two pairs of pants, regular black ones and awesome green corduroy ones :)

That's what I did on my vacation... of course there were more things I wanted to do, but as you can see I did a lot :) its a good 4 days!

Where have I been???

I disappeared from blog land for a while. I just haven't been feeling like I wanted to record my life lately. I'm sure you have all felt that way from time to time. But fortunately the last week has been really nice... too nice to wanna blog about it! Have you ever felt that when things are going great that if you tell people it will all turn on you? Well, even though I am an educated scientifically minded person, I still tend to hold too dearly to those types of superstitions! But life is good and I'm gunna keep it that way

I am going to my hometown on Nov 7th to participate in my HS reunion! Im really excited about this. I am not so excited about the long plan trip and leaving my bf in Korea, but it would have been too much to ask the company for us to both go on vacation... at least that's what it sounds like. Anyway, its all gunna turn out fine, and I can bring back lots of wonderful toys, games, books and clothes to him when I return! :)

I am almost finished reading A New Earth, and I think most people could benefit from reading this book, but it has to be read slowly... I think I have even read it too fast and I have been reading it since August! And I think it needs to be reread, or at least certain phrases need to be reread. Its too easy to forget his pearls of wisdom... but what isn't easy to forget is how much better a day can be when I try out some of his methods... such as non judgment... I cant tell you how much this has improved my daily interactions with people and how I feel in general... I guess I never knew I was such a judgmental person, I wonder if I was always this way? I don't know, but its not easy sometimes, but I have never felt bad in the aftermath of a non judgmental situation... so I think I will do this more often! I'm terrible at "being present" and I think that's why my yoga practice has been failing lately. I would be in Yoga and not be happy, and I wouldn't be able to do the poses well, cause my mind was so far away... so now I have decided to listen to every word the teacher speaks (and its all in Korean so I cant understand half of it) and when she pauses there is construction going on next door so I concentrate on the hammers to keep me present. This is great for many reasons. I am doing better at my poses, I can focus more when I need to, I'm not as jealous of the other girls (many of them are REALLY skinny) and I don't mind the hammering at all now that its part of my practice.

I know this New Earth stuff is a little hokey and as much as I like it, I'm still skeptical... but never have I tried one of his methods and had it turn out bad... I either feel nothing, or I feel better... So I think its ok.

My room at work smells much better now than it did before (there was a fire) and our new manager is really nice. Things aren't perfect at work, but they have been MUCH worse. So I'm pretty happy with things. Also, my friend Hillary now works here and yesterday she made me a fried tofu and beansprout sandwich! It was really good and now I know how to make it so I can have it all the time!

Another bit of awesomeness... My grandmother is on Facebook!!!! Yeah, you heard me right. My GRANDMOTHER! Crazy huh? I mean I know I come from a techno-nerd family, but come on! This is pretty cool! I have my mom and now my grandma on Facebook... hehe now I just have to bring my dad into the Facebook cult and I will be the coolest nerd around!

Ok well I have to work again in a few min, so I'm gunna go convince myself NOT to buy cookies!
Laters

Hello From JAPAN!

Yup, you heard it right. I am on my 4th day of my 5 day trip in Japan! Finally after years and years of waiting I have finally made it to Japan! For those of you who don't know I have had a love affair with Japan for as long as I can remember. When I was in France I even bought manga! In highschool I would wake up at 4:30AM just to watch sailor moon and dragonball Z (this was in the mid nineties, before anime was cool) and in college I spent three years studying Japanese language. Why did I choose to teach English in Korea and not Japan? Well basically it was easier to get into Korea and I figured the two countries were so close I could hop back and forth when ever I felt like it... the the gas prices surged and that was the end of that plan. But none of that matters now. I am HERE!!!!

I cant really remember ANY Japanese :( Its really quite sad, and I feel like I am totally letting John down. I really thought it would come back faster. I listened to about 7 hours of audio lessons from Pimlseur but that didnt help much... I still dont know how to say how much! (which I will look up after I finish this post.) I also know nothing about Japanese food... which is a problem for a vegetarian, and I didn't do enough reseach before getting here.

My first impressions about Japan:
1. Japanese people are the NICEST people in the world!
2. This place is way cleaner than Korea
3. Everyone rides bikes and so far I have seen three priuses and tons of solar panals
4. They have beautiful gardens even when there is no space for a garden
5. Very few bars compared to Korea
6. Everyone really does play pachinko!
7. Japanese men are much nicer towards women than Korean men
8. This place is much less crowded than Seoul
9. It is true that very few people here speak ANY English.
10. I really really really wanna come back here!

Why do I think Japanese people are so nice? Because almost any time John and I were having problems people came up to help us.... when we got off the train from the airport and were trying to figure out the map to the embassy (we are here to get our new Korean visas too) a man comes over and speaks PERFECT English and offeres to help. He was just a random stranger... that never happened to me in Korea, and rarely in the US. When we were in the subwaystation trying to figure out how to buy a ticket, one of the workers came over and helped us, again, speaking great English :) At this point I was starting to think that people were wrong when they said Japanese people couldn't speak English, but those were the last good speakers we met. And, here is a great story... I left one of my bags on the subway train and in a panic ran back and the train was gone :( John was brave enough to go up to one of the subway workers and tell him we lost something. The man didnt speak any English, he tried to point to where the office was and we didnt understand (well I was just panicing and being negative now so I couldn't understand) so he brought us to the office... when we got to stairs he motioned to John and I to take the escalator and he ran up the stairs :) cute. At the office he explained it to others and they tried to ask us again but they got the idea and told us to wait. about 5 min later he came back with my bag :-D I was so happy I didn't know what to say!!! But any way I just want people to know that if you come here and you cant speak any Japanese thats fine, because Japanese people are so nice they will try to help you no matter what!!! Ok now its time for some illuminating pictures!


Here I am riding a bike I rented through the park surrounding the imperal palace in Kyoto, one of the old and great capitals of Japan. The park was beautiful and Im sure the palace was also beautiful, but I didn't get to see it. You have to buy tickets in advance for guided tours and they were all sold out for today :( Next time... But the road was all rocks so it was a paint o ride around, but really nice and pretty :)


hehehe... for some reason there are train cars only for women! Obviously John and I didn't ride in this car, but we were in the car next to it, and in our car there was also a sign on the door to the next car that said women only!! I thought that was kinda funny.


This is a shinto shrine.... sooooo beautiful! They have this amazing garden that surrounds it and we walked through it. It had huge lakes filled with koi and turtles. The bridge behind me was were John and I stopped to take a break and have some snacks and watch the turtles and fish swim below us. It was really peacful and relaxing... why cant catholic churches be this nice :)


HAHAHAH! This is a road construction site. Everything must be cute in Japan Even construction equipment! Yes, those are monkeys and YES they are way too cute for their purpose!!

B*tch you Know you like that!

Funny story... so I'm back in Korea and John and I went to Outback for lunch... we are sitting there, enjoying our lunch, when this song starts playing... its a rap song, and for about 3-4 min we hear the rapper saying "Bitch you know you like that" over and over and over... I couldn't stop laughing. It made me think of this commercial. When I first saw that commercial I thought, there is no way anyone could be that stupid... I mean every one knows swear words right? Well I guess not... and the song playing as we left was almost as bad... Its just crazy.

Well Im back and my bathroom is beautifully redone, Im really happy about that... I'll post some pics later, I still have to unpack, we have a new TV stand from our landlord, and for some reason she also gave us another comforter on the bed... I love our landlords, they are a really sweet couple, I feel really guilty that I didn't get them anything... when I come back in November I will give them something. Anyway, on the down side (dang, why is there always a downside?) We have no hot water. John toughed it out with a cold shower, I tried and I almost died! So I'm all nasty! YUCK! I still haven't picked up my kitties from my friend who is watching them, aparently I talked to her on the phone last night and told her I was too tired to pick them up... I totally don't remember that... but I wish I was more awake when I talked to her, there is no way I would say that! Anyway, we will get them tonight. I cant wait!!!

So, California was awesome! The whole time I was there (In sanfrancisco) I kept asking myself "Why don't I live here?" I mean it is just down right beautiful! I think there are more homeless people than NYC, but I guess the weather is better out there. I will post some pics when I steal them from John. We drove up the west coast to Seattle... I think The drive from SF to Portland was about 15-17 hours... And AAA said it would be 11 hours (lying bastards!)

My Vacation So Far

Im sure this should come as no surprise to anyone, but vacations are awesome! You can do WHATEVER YOU WANT, and not feel guilty... everything can wait until you go back to work... at least I feel that is how it should be... there is no need to rush, or listen to an alarm clock or have an insanely packed day where you don't even have time for a decent lunch... oh no... that is all for when we are working. Today I slept in until about 9:30 and then I went to sleep again at about 10:30 for another half hour... it was wonderful :)

So, I have done a lot on my vacation so far, and I still have so much left to do... I am going to make a backwards post until I get to the beginning... so much I have to blog about, and the pictures will have to come later, John has them on his computer and there are just WAY TOO MANY right now!

Friday August 22
Today... well as I already said I slept in real late... you will see why when I right about yesterday.. but when I woke up I went to get a bagel sandwich at "Beyond Bagels" ... I don't know if this counts as a "new restaurant" for my 101 list, but it may... egg and cheese and a cinnamon roll... I love cinnamon! Then John and I took the train into the city, I love subways. We got off and walked to South Street Seaport (beautiful place, you must go there) then we went on "The Shark" its a fast boat ride around the NYC harbor... We rode over to the statue of Liberty, and hit a lot of bumps, we also went right under the Brooklyn Bridge and up to one of the four fake water falls they have on display from some European artist... art is strange. Then we got off and went on the grey line bus tour of Downtown Brooklyn. Our tour guide was AMAZING. He knew so much about NYC and history and pop culture and movies and famous people and art and.... on and on... basically this guy is Ken Burns with a NYC accent. It was so awesome. I didn't want to get off the bus. We went around grand army plaza, and down Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues... we saw a mall that looks like Ebbet's Field and a public housing complex that now sits on the old site of the real Ebbet's Field! Basically it was a wonderful tour! I tipped the guy 10 bucks and told him he was so much better than the Thursday tour guide, and he said he knows cause he trains the other guides, and he says with some of them there is nothing he can do! I totally feel for him.

Then John and I walked off for the Pomme Frits experience. Across from the Stomp theater there is this tiny hole in the wall place where you can get really good french fries... seriously, thats all they sell, french fries and dipping sauce. It was yummy! Then we walked about 20 min through the East Village to a vegetarian shoe store I wanted to check out. Its called Moo Shoes and they have a lot of stuff online, I wanted to see the stuff in person. I was a little disappointed though, cause most of the stuff online wasn't in the store, they didn't great me when I walked in... which was almost a good thing... no one asked to help me... and the stuff was way too expensive and they only had like 4 designs of dressy work shoes for women... but they had a really fluffy kitty and that was nice :)

Then we hopped back on the Subway for home. On the way there was this cute little boy, maybe 10 years old singing songs out loud :) He even sang a song about the Nintendo DS, which I think he started to play after he saw me playing mine :) At home we had vegetarian chicken nuggets ( I love Quorn!) and Kraft mac and cheese deluxe!! Watched some Daily and Colbert and now its bed time.

Tomorrow we have to pack and I'm hoping to meet up with my twin nonja (sic) who I haven't seen in years (and yeah, thats an inside thing that only one person will understand) But good night, my battery is almost dead, pictures and more words later!

Hi from America!

I have been back in America for a week now, and I have spent the last week thinking about this post. I have come up with so many different titles its ridiculous! The thing is, I have some things I want to talk about, but I think some of them might be a little offensive... If I want to say offensive things about Korea, its ok... that's not my home country... I'm an outsider there, its to be expected that I feel strange in Korea... But to be honest... I experienced more culture shock upon my arrival in America than I did when I entered Korea.

The first, and most obvious difference between these two countries was visible the moment I stepped off the plane in Washington DC... I am thin here. Now initially I was thinking "YAY! I am thin again" But the more time I spend in shopping malls, theme parks and other such public venues, the more depressed I become. The state of American health... or rather unhealthy... is really quite sad. I remember when I lived in Buffalo and I would be watching TV and they would have the show about obesity, and they would show all the shoulders-down shots of extremely fat people and I would thing "Man, where did they find that many morbidly obese people?" And now, after spending a year in a country where most of the people are smaller than me (I now fit into a size 8 pants!) I can see that the news men could have shot that footage virtually anywhere.

I really don't know what to think about this, except that my country is very very sick, and needs help soon. No wonder we spend so much on health care. People are told by their doctors "You have to lose weight, eat right and exercise or you will DIE"... and what do they do here? They die. Unfortunately I had a friend that this happened too when I was much younger... I thought it was really sad, but since there were so many obese people around me, I just accepted it as the way of life.

Now, this isn't to say that there are zero fat Korean people, that would be a complete lie. But the thing is they are really uncommon... but if you look at the kids, things are changing. Our American lifestyle is spreading across the globe. People are getting lazy, eating poorly and getting really fat. Now I know some people will read this and think I am some evil skinny bitch, but to be honest, I really have felt overweight for the last year that I lived in Korea... A size 8 is one size fits all in Korea.... So I am pretty big for Korea... I don't know if that helps to soften the blow of what I have been saying.

The question is this... Is this ok? Is it OK that Americans are so indulgent that our bodies cannot even keep up with our lifestyle? We eat so much more than we need to that it all just gets stored as excess fat on our body... I think its great that the cost of gas is going up in America... its still half what it is in Korea. We need to walk more, and eat less. Eat more veggies and less M&Ms. People are buying a Prius when they need a new car, but are they eating less meat to reduce their carbon emmissons? I don't think so. Even though eating less meat and more veggies would help them to be healthier inside and outside. But anyway, Im getting to extreme now Im sure...

On the lighter size, I am keeping track of how many Prius and Hummer vehicles I see on my vacation, since I dont really see any of those in Korea... Here is the current count
Prius 13
Hummer 3

Perhaps later I will write about more of the positive things about my vacation, I just really had to get this observation of my chest, sorry.

Yikes! March is almost over!

I haven't made any posts in March... In the past two months I have visited two countries and I haven't posted anything about them... Why is not important, but I am shirking my bloging duties... I complain that no one reads this, but I never write, so why should poeple read this?

Well Thailand was a wonderfully amazing place! I want to return there now! Infact I want to move there and open my own school! Sigh... I think Thailand is the best thing about Korea :) I know that sounds like a terrible thing to say, and its not that I don't like Korea, its just that there are some people here who are really annoying me now. You know how people get fired for talking smack about their job on the internet, Well, I think I would like to test that theory! Of course since most of the people who work here dont speak fluent English I think I might be in the clear! hehe

Well basically I keep getting booked for Overtime classes that I did not approve and I was really sick earlier this week and they wouldn't let me go home. And my boss doesnt like my clothes and nothing in this country fits me... seriously... I went to a shop, tried on the biggest pair of pants they had and they were too small... maybe I am just shopping in skinny district... but its still really upsetting. Infact, my boss even told one of the other managers to take me shopping, it was a bit degrading.

Just having less than wonderful feelings lately and I wish I was back In Thailand! Well here is a picture of extreem bliss, If I go back to Thailand tomorrow it will not be soon enough!