Day 30: Lazy Day.

It feels good just to do nothing on a Saturday, but lots of free time means lots of thinking. And you KNOW that's never good. I'm missing home a little bit today...Though I'm sad about leaving Thailand soon, I can't help but look forward to snuggling with my dog, Vampire Diaries, bonfires, and 2am front porch talks when I get home. I Skyped all my Church St. people earlier today, and that made me so happy and sad. Sierra, Erica, Taylor, Betsy, Courtney, and the visiting Emily Fox. (sigh) I just love and miss you girls so much. Oh, and it was good to talk to Cortney today too! (Even if she was sick and sounded like a man. Haha!) And I talked to my Madre...but the internet connection here sucks, so that was pretty frustrating. I don't know why her Skype was the only one messing up.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to home I think. I can already tell that it's going to be so hard catching up with people and American culture. So much can change in 2 months (3 months if you include Christmas break). I can't believe that I thought 2 months was forever, though. It has flown by! I just want to take advantage of every moment here. I know I've changed a lot since I left home. Maybe I'm just growing up. Who knows. It's starting to hit me that I'm graduating in 3 months. That's crazy! I'm so excited about it now! I was dreading it when I thought I was going to be moving away, but now that I know I'm staying in Cleveland, I can enjoy every minute of it without worrying about saying goodbye. Maybe I like my Cleveland security blanket. Judge me. Haha.

Allison and I went to lunch at the Paragon food court again today. I really could eat there for every meal...always. It was packed! There really were no empty tables in the entire place! I'm sure we looked like the new geeky kids at school trying to navigate the lunchroom or something as we awkwardly wandered around with our trays, failing to find a table. We found a girl sitting at a table by herself and asked her to sit down, but she was sooooo rude and said no. The man sitting behind her said something to her in Thai that we couldn't understand (I think he was mad that she was rude.) and then he asked us to sit at his table with him, his wife, and his father. It was so cute because his father was way old, and they were having to feed him and they were treating him like a king. They got this huge plate of chicken and rice and he at like 3 bites, and then they got him a big piece of chocolate cake for dessert. Gosh, it was great just sitting there with them and struggling to have a Thai-English conversation. We mostly just sat in silence and smiled a lot. Haha. But we wai'd to them and said "Cop Coon Caa" (Thank you) when we left. I love meeting local people! It so great.

Well, Allison and I are going to Sala Daeng tonight, hopefully to hang out with some people from work. We're going to explore and shop around at the markets and stuff too I'm sure. I'll let you know how that goes...

Stay classy America.

I'm out.
Cwalk.