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ill hvae some updates soon. ive been on tropical islands and the internet connection is really slow so its hard to get onto the internet let alone put up some pictures of stuff. ill update it completely when i finally get home in a few days...i cant wait by the way. im sooper dooper excited.

love and miss you all

It was cloudy and the tide was in as far as it could reach. One of our friends had asked us to go for a quick swim in the water, so my dad and I had said yes. We both changed into bathing suits and headed out to meet her out in the water. My dad was further out than I was, heading out to meet up with her. I took my time as I walked, thinking to ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a lot of fun and really really interesting, but it was kind of scary too. There were eleven of us (plus the driver) that went on a long tail boat to different parts of the islands. Our first stop was called monkey beach, which is a small beach next to a 100-foot vertical wall. Monkeys live on the beach and you can go to watch them ( Read more... )

Back on the Phi Phi islands now and it’s amazing to be back here. The island mentality is so wonderful. The people here are amazing and never in any sort of rush. They are friendly friendly friendly and are constantly saying “mai pen rai,” (the Thai version of ‘no worries’, literally translates to ‘there is nothing’) to the ferung (foreigners) ( Read more... )

The past month has been a lot a lot of fun and excitement and learning and hard hard work. I have met a lot of interesting people and I received a certificate to teach English as a foreign language in nearly any country that I want to work in the entire world. And the country that I want to work in is the USA. There are many reasons that I want ( Read more... )

I’m done ( Read more... )

Over the weekend I went to a place called the Koh Phi Phi (pronounced ‘pee-pee’). It is a small group of islands that are located to the southeast of Phuket Island (where I live). These islands were tropical and gorgeous and amazing. The movie “The Beach” with Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed on one of the islands there. We took a boat from Phuket ( Read more... )

Sunday night, I went to a Muay Thai boxing match. It was ridiculously interesting. Chris, one of the guys on the course was telling me all about the customs of the fighting and why the fighters did certain things and what the significance of the different things they were doing meant before they would start the fight. He also told me about the ( Read more... )