Thursday, October 30, 2008

Halloween

Tomorrow is Halloween. There will be no party, no trick or treating. Emma and I plan to have a sleepover, but that's about it. Maybe we'll pig out on candy and watch a horror movie, but probably not. We will go to eat dinner at the home of a rotarian at five o' clock. Our first invitation by a rotarian! And finally, we were invited to a rotary meeting. Normally we just show up and "crash" it. Half the time it's a party that we didn't even know about. Well, what can we do? We're the exchange students, we don't know anything better. Next meeting though, we are supposed to bring pictures of us at the temple from the thai dance performance.
Our plans for traveling are hatching.
Rotary rules state that you can stay or travel with anybody that is rotary approved or part of your family. This means staying with other exchange students is no independent travel. SO! If we want to see Udon thani, we can call up one of the three girls there. Same goes for Ubon Ratchatani, Khon Kaen, Sakhon Nakhon, Mahasarakham (although considering that every single exchange student is a boy, I doubt it), Korat, Yasothon, maybe even Pattaya or Chantaburi. All we need to know is how to work the system...
In April, we don't have school AND I will be switching over to my third host family. They have a house in Chiang mai and in Bangkok, as well as the house in Nakhon Phanom.
In December, we have the rotary trip with all of the other exchange students. In January, the school from Renu Nakhon is also going on a trip to the North for two weeks, they want us to come along as well. February seems a little dull, but my host father says the english program might take a trip to the beach. March has a trip to Phuket and April has Songkran, the thai new year and a giant waterfight that lasts for three days. The year will shape up with lots of oppurtunities and experiences. I can't wait.

4 comments:

Ian said...

How do you make your own syrup? I actually know about that 3 day waterfight. How'd it go? They don't do Halloween here either, but Rotex had a big costume party get together thing. My blog is www.iansadventuresinbrazil.blogspot.com

BK said...

My Halloween in Victoria with Madeleine was different, too. Her perfomance was...great! She outshined (in stage presence and well -- I guess I'm a BIT biased, she's the prettiest one!) the lead dancer, who looked scared stiff. Madeleine is just more comfortable on stage, I guess. Firebird was appropriately scary, but the theatre was only 2/3 full, making me wonder why the director planned a Halloween opening night! We didn't eat ANY candy, of course,(This was Madeleine's opening night...She didn't want to risk having a sugar overdose or anything so dangerous as that!) though we did have some excellent salads at a restaurant near the bridge. Lots of costumed (fancy dress) Victorians running around town, though! As you can imagine, they REALLY get into costumes in Victoria!!

Matthew Roberts said...

when you go to the coast, you should take lots of pictures and post them, oceans and seas in different places are always fascinating. your exchange sounds amazing, it would be so epic to do what you are doing! i am very envious

Rob and Sara said...

Sounds like things are looking up and they're letting you out of your cell early for good behavior. :-)
We're finally settled in India and back on line.