tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3749250603209637572024-03-04T23:25:00.467-08:00Thailand AdventureRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-76178573973357179682012-04-30T01:34:00.000-07:002012-04-30T01:34:07.667-07:00SONKRAN DAY 2012Actually, I'm quite surprised that there are any pictures at all from this water-fun-filled day. But, hey at least someone was brave enough!<br />
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Songkran Day is Thailand's new year. They celebrate it with a water festival which creates the biggest water fight I've ever been in! It was good fun :)<br />
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*Nicolas, Addy, Lia and Carlos*</div>
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and then we changed and went shopping...</div>
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The End <3</div>
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<br /></div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-31659859184979489062012-04-30T01:21:00.000-07:002012-04-30T01:21:03.256-07:00Chang Mai Trip Pt 2!!<b>Temples, Temples</b><br />
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*This is our entire district group including the Thai out-bounds*</div>
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*Daniela and I painting our umbrellas*</div>
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*Nicolas (Brazil)*</div>
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*Stef (Quebec, Canada)*</div>
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I was going to leave this part out because we didn't take that many picture and there isn't much too it but... We volunteered at a school literally on a mountain in the middle of nowhere that was built for this small secluded community in by a christian organization. </div>
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We got there and there were literally preschool age kids running around with one guy and his 13-year old daughter 'supervising'. But hey, the kids were cute :)</div>
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<br /></div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-31303380047282369612012-04-22T05:28:00.045-07:002012-04-30T01:04:22.783-07:00My Recent Trip: Chang Mai ;)<div style="text-align: left;">
The second trip of our exchange organized by our head Rotarian here in Thailand. I had an amazing time with my friends and this was an unforgettable experience indisputably and to tell you the truth, I didn't take one stupid picture! Haha, good thing my friends took quite a few :)</div>
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<b>Day 1+2:</b></div>
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I am starting here because the first 2 days were spent on a train. How lovely. Apparently our 2 favorite chaperones P'boy and P'Gob were unhappy that us spoiled foreigner kids were unhappy about the train seats, lucky for us our complaining got us train beds...on the way home.</div>
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<b>Train Beds from the First Trip</b></div>
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*We were quite happy*</div>
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Funny Train Pictures:</div>
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*Carlos and I*</div>
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*Carlos and I*</div>
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*Jackie and I*</div>
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*Jackie and I*</div>
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<b>Train Seats This Trip </b></div>
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<b>Day 3: An evening in Bangkok </b></div>
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*Me, Addy, Jackie and Veronica*</div>
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<b>*</b>First we rode a Tuk Tuk (a 3 wheeled dangerous looking bus that is one of the cheaper means of public transportation) to Central BKK for Siam Mall.*</div>
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*Carlos, Addy and I*</div>
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*Nicolas and I*</div>
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*Veronica, Nicolas, Jackie, Carlos, Addy, Me, Daniela*</div>
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Ok, so im already tired of going in order so I'm just going to talk about the highlights of the trip, like RIDDING ELEPHANTS! </div>
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*Yes, I was picked up by 2 elephants at the same time. Yes, it was amazingly cool :)*</div>
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We were at an elephant camp for maybe 3 days of our trip and it was a great 3 days except...it smelled like elephant poop EVERYWHERE. Yes, and by the end of the 3 days not only did WE smell like it but so did our suitcases, hair and clothes smell like poop. Exiting right? Yes, because we got to ride elephants!</div>
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*Daniela and I on an elephant*</div>
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* Taking a bath with the elephants! Not me though, there was too much poop in the water*</div>
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<b>Ready for the elephant show???</b></div>
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*Baby Elephant! So cute!*</div>
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*Painting elephants!*</div>
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</div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-71350551504247553652012-04-03T00:28:00.002-07:002012-04-03T00:34:46.806-07:00The Great Serpent...thing<span style="font-size: small;">Aloha again! Wait... this isn't Hawaii (i wish), its Thailand, so, Sawadeeka! Yes, the Thai greeting for women. English? hi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, i haven't been up to much lately with school being out and with my sister in Bangkok, 12 train hours away, living her college life that leaves me...with not much happening. I was just thinking about the things I really miss back home and it reminded me that I have a blog that I've been so thoughtfully neglecting. So,without further adieu, here is the Serpent thing!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I believe it was last friday that Tian, one of my best thai friends and I, went on a little trip to eat Pad Thai, went to Song Thale (Two Beach) park and went to the night market. We had a ton of Funn!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Who is Tian? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/423269_10150648450173576_692723575_9634727_1979584017_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/423269_10150648450173576_692723575_9634727_1979584017_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tian is one of my best Thai Chee friends from my school :) She is 17 and is part Chinese.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pad Thai is a very popular Thai dish that consists of noodles, egg, tofu, shrimp, bean sprouts and tamarind. I'm sure there are a ton more ingredients but, those are the flavors that stand out the most. I ordered mine without shrimp and it was just as good! It was nice and sweet as if they put sugar in it but it may have been form the tamarind.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">It wasn't only me and Tian at the beach, Tian's mom joined us! I really like her, Tian and her mom are almost identical if you ask me!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, and to finnish off did you hear about the Hat Yai terrorist bombing? Hat Yai is a good 15 minutes from Songkhla and 2 car bombs went off in an underground hotel parking lot. Last time i checked 4 people were found dead and 200 are trapped in the hotel.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The scary thing? On of Rotarys exchange students house is just around the corner from the bombed Hotel/Shopping center and she has not heard anything from rotary about relocating! The incident happened 3 days ago now!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-1876571408916173212012-03-17T10:13:00.000-07:002012-03-17T10:13:06.379-07:00Malaysia!Just this past week I returned from a theme park in Malaysia with my classmates from Mo. 5. We had a great time with roller coasters, rain, the DEAMON DROP and more rain! Unfortunately, the rain kept us from riding many of the rides that we wanted to ride and the indoor park was centered towards small children and shopping sooo... we went shopping! (duh)<br />
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Lucky (for us) our trip was mostly covered by the school and we only has to pay for the park pass. The theme park was massive even on the inside so once it began raining we still had plenty of places to go.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I believe the theme park is called Genting Skyway or maybe that was the name of the hotel we stayed at?? Not quite sure. All I really remember from that first day was waking up at 3:30am, driving for like 8 hours on a bus really having to pee and then plopping down on a hotel bed! haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But something is named Genting Skywayt cuzz, i got a picture with it :) hehe</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Incase your wondering, no, the towers were not at the theme park. We stopped at them on the way back from there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">So, I really am jumping around here but I'm just going in the order that my pictures are from when I put them on Facebook. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But BEFORE anything, after waking up at 3am, getting to school at 4am and the stupid bus arriving LATE (really pissed me off) we drove off across the sunset, uh, i mean, border and he arrived at this little school in a little part of Malay. I thought it was a Muslim school because the first thing i saw was a lady come out with one of those little hats that they wear, but it was a mixed school.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The first person I met was an exchange student, Yay, from Japan. Do you want to know the truth? I forgot her name :) hehe, but shes a sweetheart soo, lets call her that :)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">We were at the school to have an activity with them. Malay people have their own language and culture separate from Thai and we were there to learn and share. So, we started with an icebreaker:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/428120_10150642793498576_692723575_9614629_677632187_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/428120_10150642793498576_692723575_9614629_677632187_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">*Perhaps you can tell that they mixed us up, the school students with their Muslim hats and us in our school uniform. That was a good thing but initially no one sat by me. I tend to look intimidating here with my height and i suppose my demeanor which is a tad different from the submissive like behavior they seem to have.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't want to bore you but the icebreaker consisted of us telling our name, country and favorite color. I was the second to last person of about 50 students and I will say that it was REALLY getting on my nerves the quietness of their voices. Like, come on, do you really think that if you WISPER a name that i can bareley pronounce anyway, its gonna help anything. Let me answer that for you, no.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> By the time the turn rolled around to me everyone was talking to the people next to me which made it practically impossible to hear anything at all, but when I stood up everything went dead quiet. I smiled at the pleasant surprise and said my part, "Hi, my name is Rachel, I'm from USA and my favorite color is purple," and i made a POINT to say it nice and loud :) Second surprise? I got a round of applause!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">After the ever so "successful" icebreaker we went to a different location outside where we began learning a traditional style of Malay writting.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I think our instructors were trying to keep us busy because they kept the art stuff out for a really long time. Of course, as always a few of those stupid kids ended up burning themselves with the wax,but, hey, life goes on.</div><div style="text-align: left;">My friends and I began to get bored and when that happens, the camera comes out :)<br />
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I'd like you to meet my best school friends, the 4 musketeers!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I ended up making alot of new friends that day. Some of them really only think of America of a really far away place but they were interested. Its amazing where a smile will get you...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;">We later got into groups and tried to teach each other our languages (FAIL). Yes, a complete fail.<br />
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At the end of our day with them they wanted me to make the 'thank you for inviting us speach' which i expected to also be a complete fail, but it wasn't so! I got up there and said 'hi!' which was followed by a chorus of 'HELLO' which made me laugh and i proceeded to thank them for sharing their language and culture with us and that I hoped we'd see each other again! Their smiles kept me from being nervous so it made for an easy peasy speech :)<br />
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</div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-83657469337421396612012-01-08T07:55:00.000-08:002012-01-08T07:55:24.901-08:00A few pictures from my Thai friends :)Thank youu!!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rachel</div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-16090489628788321162012-01-08T06:29:00.000-08:002012-01-08T06:29:46.175-08:00Update: Happy New Year!!Heyyy! So, I know I haven't written in what seems like forever and its not that i've been busy but ive been more caught up with writing in my journal rather than my blog.<br />
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Anyway, before I start my rambling let me wish you all a Merry late Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays, whatever you celebrate.<br />
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OKkk! so, actually alot of stuff has been happening but Im not here to bore you so, im just gonna talk about the more interesting stuff. Obviously I cant tell you everything, but, thats ok :)<br />
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1. Songkhla Orientation:<br />
The best thing about this, right off the bat was that I live in Songkhla! Soo, I didn't have to pack or get ready for anything and I got to show my friends around the city i stayed in! Not that I know much about it...<br />
There were 3 parts of the conference. Preparing for the Conference, the actual conference then one of the nights... a party!<br />
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A. Preparing for the Conference<br />
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^^Our crew team! Woo hoo! Those bags you see? Yes, we had to fill each one with candy, information pamphlets, paper and pencils! Sounds fun right? Not after the 300th one.<br />
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^^My counselor and I modeling these wonderful Rotary Bags :)<br />
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^^Sorting, sorting, sorting! We had to make sure every bag had all the information papers it needed, a task that got boring after the 5th one. We did 300 bags. It felt like more.<br />
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B) The District Conference!!<br />
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</div>^^If your wondering why we all all wearing something blue its because Thai people seem to like to set a dress code/color for big events.<br />
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^^Sasha (South Africa) and I all up in blue, ready to party! Woo Hoo! Actually it wasn't much of a party for us because 1) the food wasn't too good, 2) most of the Rotarians were drunk like an hour in and they only gave us coke.<br />
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c) MORE PARTY PICTURES:<br />
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</div>After the "Party", well the next day, the head of the YE people, Mr. Manit Something, arranged for us to have a TEST. The reason being, we are apparently the slowest exchange group to learn Thai. Yes, its true. We basically suck and have been slacking off our past 5 months here. I'm not really sure but everybody was extremely nervous, and then there was me... sleeping.<br />
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d) BEFORE THE TEST<br />
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^^What we did was pick numbers out of a hat that chose who went fist second, ect. I was third, and poor Addy was first up, Lia second (red jacket) and me last (sleeping)!<br />
What can I say yall...I was sleepy!<br />
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**A little Story: From the first time I met all of these wonderful people, I acquired a nickname that I think may stick with me till the end of my exchange year. I always seemed to fall asleep in the most curious of times and nobody seemed to understand how or why I could fall asleep so fast! And so, I acquired the nickname Sleeping Beauty, given to me by my friend Remo from South Africa of all places.<br />
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E) TRAVELING SONGKHLA<br />
I would say that what we did wasn't actually very interesting but....we took pictures and pictures say a thousand words!<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">^^All ready to go! The 14 year old in the white jacket isn't part of our group but he was one of our tour guides. He's half Thai, half Aussie. Cute right? Yes, we all thought so.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">^^Yes, these are all gay men, fully acceptable in Thailand.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!</div><br />
RachelRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-31989543749955240612011-11-06T01:05:00.000-07:002011-11-06T01:05:52.236-07:00Thai Money<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is what Thai money looks like. I forgot to take pictures of the coins so I got a picture from the internet :)</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Thai Money:</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">25 satang i think is worth 1.2 cents. Its not used very much, neither is the 50 satang.<br />
You mostly see 1-10BHT coins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are all the bills. If there are others then they are not commonly used<br />
because I have not seen others.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Kings face is on every bill. Actually, its on everyTHING. They love their king.</td></tr>
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Yup, thats Thai money for ya. Actually, its really big like play money. It doesn't fit in my American sized wallet.<br />
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</div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-7555021593241843762011-11-05T23:59:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:59:37.635-07:00My Birthday :)For my 16th birthday I celebrated with my host family at an Italian restaurant! They even bought me birthday presents! The event made me miss my family but I was happy to have some american food! Well, Italian food, but just as good :)<br />
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Thanks for a great 16th birthday :)<br />
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</tbody></table>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-48318417059993588462011-11-05T23:50:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:50:19.854-07:00RandomMy face literaly hurts from smiling all the time...and chewing gum all the time. But still, for some reason people here think you are unaproachable if you don't have a humugous smile on your face. Or atleast thats how it comes across. Its getting easier to smile all the time but still, gosh.<br />
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I was sitting in class durring a test I couldn't take (cuz I dont speak thai) and I was noticing how accepted it is to cheat. Just look over and see what your friend wrote for an answer, just ask them directly what the answer to number 42 in section 20 is. I'm watching the teacher to see if she notices them and shes up there sleeping while her kids are on their phones looking up answers for her physics test.<br />
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Thats all :)<br />
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RachelRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-70974732881951277722011-11-05T23:00:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:00:21.459-07:00Thailand Inbound Group : A video of Us!!Soo, all of us exchange students got together around the middle of September for 9 days in Trang Province. We laughed, we cried, we ate Nutella, we got sick, we had embarrassing moments, and when it was over, we cried again. But thats ok :)<br />
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Anyway, Veronica, another exchange student, made a video of us in Trang and it pretty much wraps up what we did.<br />
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Waking up at 5 am every morning, going to yoga, trying to teach each other Thai, traveling and not getting to bed till 1 am for 9 days was worth it. The lack of sleep made it hard to learn Thai. I even acquired the nickname Sleeping Beauty because I couldn't stay awake. Thanks Remo :)<br />
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Anyways, here is the video, I think she did a good job and had pictures of everybody!!<br />
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Thats all for now :)<br />
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RachelRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-56876984333054148782011-10-31T20:01:00.000-07:002011-10-31T20:01:44.062-07:00A litttle Update :)Yes, I know I havent written anything in atleast a month and dont think its because I'm busy or something, i just have been flat out lazy. But nevermind! I'm back :)<br />
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I have alot to catch up on so I figure I'll start now and go back in time :) Speaking of In Time, thats a movie that just came out here....that I must see....oley because of Justin Timberlake :)<br />
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Anyway, so, last night I went to a holoween party! It was at this cute little school in Hat Yai run by this guy named Richard and his wife (whos name escapes me). Richard is from the UK and his wife is thai. I met them at the movie theater a while back and they invited me. <br />
The school is named Songkhla International School and most of the teachers are farang like me. Farang means foreigner, its a word I hear alot :) The party was mostly centered around the little children that went to the school but it was still alot of fun and there was cake...so.<br />
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Besides that, over my little semester break I went to Trang and Nacomsi Tamarat, which are 2 other provinces about 4 hours away. I will write about those later because I need pictures :) I was on break for a month. I think it was an optional break because alot of my friends still went to school, yea...why would you go to school if you had the chance not to. Something tells me its the parents :)<br />
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Well, I cant write any more without pictures so, bye now :)<br />
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RachRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-27671265686720725592011-09-27T22:45:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:58:19.106-07:00Feeding the Monkeys!I forgot to put this in my other post but here it is...its soo cute, watch all of it.<br />
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RachelRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-74674683013147977472011-09-24T09:37:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:57:20.790-07:00A morning at the beach :)This morning Kwan (my host sister), Got and I woke up super early (like 6am) so that we could get down to Samila Beach and be there while the sun was rising :) Well, the sun was already up when I got up at 6, but we still went anyway and took some pictures. I slipped on a really mossy rock and fell on my butt...here are some of the pictures we took.<br />
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After we got from the beach we surprisingly met up with the club president who was eating breakfast with her parents, brother and daughter at the same restaurant we came to!<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;">ดาว</span></b>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-14311752919727896702011-09-22T06:33:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:56:09.164-07:00My Day at the beach with Jackie: Sep 21, 2011(If you want to see a picture closer, click on it)<br />
Yesterday, Jackie and I had an awesome time at Samila Beach. Jackie is from Mexico also here for an exchange year!<br />
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We got to see Cao Tan Quan, the mountain where the monkeys for some reason congregate and we got to swim at Samila Beach. I did this before but the first time I forgot my camera (teehee).<br />
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So, first my country counselor Ba Oui had to pick up Jackie from Hat Yai, about 45 minutes away from where I live in Songkhla. Then we all had lunch at a restaurant that belongs to one of the rotary club members. When we finnished eating my host mom dropped us off for a day of being ripped off by vendors, being scratched up by monkeys and carefully walking though the sea water trying to avoid starfish and crabs!<br />
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I got to wear some clothes my host mom bought for me at the Sunday Market. Clothes here are incredibly cheap.<br />
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The monkeys were sooo cute but really aggresive :) They get your attention by tugging at your bag or touching your skin with those creepily soft hands. Some were bold enough to take the basket of food right out of our hands. One basket of food was 10 BHT. CHEAP. We got a basket of bananas and a basket of peanuts.<br />
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Some mean monkey grabbed Jackies wrist and made her drop the basket of peanuts. Meanie...<br />
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Now less of them get hit by cars :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some stupid bird pooped on my bad, see if you can find the little white speck :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jackie at the base of the mountain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jackie :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a playground they made for the monkeys :) Nalac!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me at the base of the mountain :)</td></tr>
</tbody></table> From there we walked to the beach where we changed in a little crummy bathroom that you have to pay to get into and we paid the owner of the restaurant near the bathroom to keep our stuff while we swam. We paid like 20BHT which is like, nothing.<br />
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We 'swam' and we had a lot of fun wondering how far we could go before we were in danger of sharks. We saw these people in the water who looked like they were looking for something. We found out later they were looking for starfish and those crabs with the swirly shells. One of the guys that was looking in the water showed us what they were looking for. That was the first time I touched a starfish, it was squishy.We had seen a starfish in the water earlier and we didn't touch it because...well, I didn't touch it because I didn't want it to like stick to me or something :)<br />
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After the beach we got our stuff back and we got some pins made for our rotary jackets. I will take a picture of mine later :) We asked the lady to write Samila Beach on them :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A big cat and a mouse next to the beach. I am sitting on the mouse :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and a Mouse :)</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">SO, we kept walking and we found another sculpture, and this time it was a mermaid :)</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Tuk Tuk, its a little bus that can take you pretty much anywhere and its really cheap :)</td></tr>
</tbody></table> ROTARY MEETING!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jackie and I in our YE jackets at the Rotary meeting. Our meetings are held in<br />
a Hotel. I am about to make my presentation about my home :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me giving my presentation :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me giving my rotary clubs flag to my host clubs president!</td></tr>
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Well, that was our day. I made quite a few posts today and I still have soo much more to write about...*sigh.<br />
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</div></div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-9485678780651126082011-09-22T02:59:00.000-07:002011-09-22T02:59:02.975-07:00I GOT A PACKAGE FROM HOME!!Thanks Parents :)<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ดาว</span></b>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-73688606049275157562011-09-22T02:30:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:53:34.362-07:00My Student Uniform!I have 3 uniforms but this is the most important one and this is the one that I have pictures of me in :) It's literally called the student uniform :) We also have a sports day uniform and then there is the activity day uniform :)<br />
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The student uniform consists of a light blue button down cotton shirt with your name printed on the right side. Then you have to wear a black belt, and this HEAVY navy blue cotton skirt that goes mid calf and covers your knees when you sit down. Then you wear white socks that you have to roll and black marry jane shoes :) Beautiful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and my classmates, on my second day of school. I don't stick out at all :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend Than and I are both wearing the student uniform :)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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I just want to thank everybody for supporting me on my journey :) I am truly having an awesome time :)<br />
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</div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-84828628423715839532011-09-22T01:07:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:52:17.873-07:00My Name in ThaiSo, I was requested to see exactly how to write my nickname and my full thai name, in both languanges...soooo, I had my friend write it for me :) Thanks, Ing :)<br />
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</div>Rachel <3Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-23114717975557117342011-09-19T05:09:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:51:49.941-07:00Celebrating my Host dads B-day!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rachel</div>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-82130715472386628982011-09-18T05:02:00.000-07:002011-09-18T05:02:17.746-07:00September 15, 2011Well, I've been here a month now. I got the first of my allowance from Rotary last night at the weekly meeting. I saw my Rotary Youth Exchange country councelor again. Her name is Oui. She tells me to call her Ba Oui, which is Thai for Aunt Oui.<br />
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So, I have alot of random things I wanted to talk about. Just catching you up. Lateley, I'm finding it hard to write in my journal. It just seems easier to jump on Blogger and type whatevers on my mind :)<br />
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When I first came to Woranari Chaloem, well, when I began to make friends, I was watching how the people in my class interacted. First of all, everybody looks alot younger than they really are. Like, I look at someone and to me they look like, oh mabe 13? Then they tell me they are 17 or 18. Oops :) Well, I was watching how everybody talked to everybody and there didn't seem to be any clicks or 'loners' like there tend to be in the US. It seemed like everybody just liked everybody.<br />
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Well, anyway, I learned that that was not completeley true. I was sitting with 5 of my friends after school and we had just gotten something to eat so...lets just say gossiping in that gossiping in Thailand is just as entertaining as gossiping in the US. I found out during that conversation that even though it seems like everything in hunky-dory, thats not completeley the case. Some people do have problems with other people, I just didn't notice it until someone told me :)<br />
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Oh, and one more thing on that note, some girls were fist fighting in the bathroom. It was um....interesting. It was probably about some boy. My friend told me it happens a lot :)<br />
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SOOOO, this weekend I was at this presentation that the seniors had to make for their art class. It was soo funny. Remember me talking about Nek? Welll, he's a senior and he was ALL UP in that presentation :) He was wearing a shirt that was cut off under his pecks, and black skinny jeans, that were sooo tight on him that I almost lost respect for him :) Then he proceded to do this belly dance to this Thai song. Oh, and he was wearing makeup. Hmm, Thai culture.. gotta love it... literally because I have to live with it at least another 10 months :)Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-67238908149237251842011-09-12T05:29:00.000-07:002011-09-12T05:29:40.596-07:00September 9, 2011Talk about freakin anoying. Ohhh myyy gooshhh. If your in a situation like me where people are always either trying to get your attention and giving you alot of atention, its not a good idea to be tired. Today I was really really tired.<br />
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First, it was people asking me if I was sad. How many times do I have to tell you I'm not sad for you to freakin believe I'm not freakin sad. *sigh<br />
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Then, it this girl. I'm not going to say her real name, though I'd like to. That girl is so freaking loud. Like.. oh my gosh, I CAN HEAR YOU, IM NOT DEAF. She would be standing right next to me and be yelling in my ear. Then she'd pull at my clothes...<br />
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Your probably like, "Rachel, why didn't you just ask her to stop?" Ummm...I did, in as many languages as I could including the one she spoke.<br />
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As you know, or at least probably guessed, I'm taller than most people here. So, me getting pissed I got up (I was sitting, talking with friends) and I started walking towards her, and she backed up sooo fast, I was a little confused. My height must be intimidating.<br />
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The rest of my day was ok...I have alot to catch up on (writting wise) but...well yea. If there is something you want to know more about let me know.<br />
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RachelRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-24765221074474064702011-09-08T23:12:00.000-07:002011-09-08T23:12:07.765-07:00An "OH MY GOD" MomentOk, so this morning we had to stay outside longer than normal. We sat on the paved ground area and watched this extremely boring ceremony, with this extremely old monk talking our ears off, and you would think he would get tired of talking eventually because he looks so old and tired but....no.<br />
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But while I was sitting there something happened there that 1) blew my mind and 2) made everybody laugh at me. <br />
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While I was sitting in between my 2 friends Pooky and Sainee I heard this buzzing. I looked around I saw that I wasn't the only one that had heard it. Except they knew what was coming...I didn't.<br />
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The buzzing got louder. It sounded like allot of little bugs. Then I heard this girl moan and put her face into her friends back which may have or not have had anything to do with what I was about to see.<br />
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You are probably thinking that some swarm of bugs came and tried to eat everybody, but...no. It was just one MASSIVE BUG. First I screamed. Actually, its hard to explain the size of this bug. I think it was a beetle. I thought it was a bird, then it got closer. When I saw that it was a humongous booty insect yes, I screamed but I also proceeded to say, "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god," about a million times very loudly when all the kids were quietly listening to the boring old monk.<br />
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That's why they laughed at me.<br />
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I just could not get over how big this bug was. I don't even know how those wings were holding that big bulky body. I am reading back what I have written and I seem to be having a hard time expressing how big this bug was. It was bigger than my hand but smaller than my head. I don't think that helps but, if I ever see that thing again, I might cry. <br />
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RachelRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-46211051034378668632011-09-08T22:36:00.000-07:002011-09-08T22:37:26.846-07:00September 9, 2011Well, I finally got my phone! After a few weeks of waiting for Kwan after school in a school this big, getting lost trying to find her, finding her friends who tell me they don't know where she is and try to call her, her not picking up the phone, me sitting alone feeling lost....frustrating :)<br />
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Anyway, I love my phone. Its a touch screen. I can reach the Internet anywhere, it's a great mp3 player and it takes decent pictures. I was going to get the samsung champ but it was never in stock because it had just come out and it was so popular. Now I'm glad I didn't get it because everybody is saying now that its a piece of crap. I got an LG instead.<br />
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In school these days I pretty much do nothing. Its not like I can because I can't read or write Thai an I am still learning to speak. My rotary president had a very good idea to get me a private tutor so I can learn faster. As for progress so far, I can follow conversations and understand the jist of what they are saying and I know basic words. I hope I can also take special classes for music.<br />
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Lately, I have been trying the baby powder thing. I'm can't remember if I already talked about this but girls here seem to think baby powder is for the face. Some girls wear it was makeup which... well...as you would imagine looks great. Anyway, if you apply it lightly, the powder is translucent. It makes for a matte look and your skin feels extremely soft but I have noticed that the overall quality of my skin has diminished a bit. If I notice this continues as I use the powder I will stop, but for now, its an experiment :)<br />
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Ok, so yesterday my friend Comalee asked me id I wanted to try some thai sausage. I was eyeing it earlier because it actually looks really good, but I did not get because I had just eaten. Anyway, she asked me if I wanted to try it and I said yes. I smelled it and it smelled great, like a sweet prickly smell.<br />
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I think the smell should have warned me. I took a bit and began to chew. At first I just felt heat. Then my lips started to burn. The burning sensation filled my mouth and spread to my tongue and throat and the inside of my nose began to burn. <br />
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I saw my friend look at me in alarm and I realized then there were tears running down my face. I gave her the sausage back. I couldn't speak. My friend ran to get me something to drink and I just stood there afraid to move or open my mouth. I swallowed the sausage which was a bad idea because I began to cough.<br />
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My friend came back with a coke. She was laughing and trying to say she was sorry at the same time. I tried to tell her I was ok but it just came out as a whispery scream.<br />
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She continued to eat her sausage while I tried to get it together and I watched her. She seemed to not even notice the spiciness, though her cheeks turned a little red. She must have thought I was crazy because I sure thought she was.<br />
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Until next time,<br />
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Rachel ดำวRachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-37500749962993446892011-09-03T05:19:00.000-07:002011-09-03T05:19:02.294-07:00House TourAgain, uploading takes forever but I finally made this work! At the beginning It is hard to get down those blue stairs because the rail is sooo low. Anyway, enjoy, let me know if you have any questions ;)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Love, ดาว</b></span>Rachel Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07905836312119845356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374925060320963757.post-63222761544562813582011-09-03T00:49:00.000-07:002011-09-03T00:51:04.047-07:00Room TOUR!Sooo, I have been wanting to get this up FOREVER, but something always goes wrong. I couldn't edit the video though I really wanted to!! This is a tour of my host room here in Thailand I hope you enjoy!!!<br />
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