1 Direction

This week both of my sisters were home. We went out for coffee and lunch almost everyday. On Wednesday, P'Mod had to go to her university to work on a animation project. I got to go with her, We stayed there for a total of two nights. I meet three of her friends, and they all could speak english. It was very cool to see the process of adding sound to animation. On Friday we came home. On Saturday, P'Mook and I went to pick up my friend, Caroline from Denmark. We went to a opening of a bakery shop. They gave us free food. After spending an hour there, we headed to Bangkok, to go to a one direction concert. We stopped and had dinner, and entered the stadium at about 7:30. the consort didn't start until 8:30. I had fun dancing with my friend and sister and singing(sort of, I don't know the lyrics). I felt really lucky, because I just imagine how menu people in the world want to see them, and we got to see them for a little under 50 US dollars.
In sad depressing dog news, my family has a dog named Volk(like Volkswagen, the car)and he got hit by a car the other day. No worries, he didn't die, but he did get a broken hip. Today is his surgery. He is a very old dog, so there is a small chance that he might not wake up from the operation. I hope he does though.

~FRS

January and February

On new years eve, we drove to Khonkaen. There we spent the night and went to a new years party. It was in a little open mall. We danced and sang, while the Thai people just lauded and took pictures. It was fun. The next day we went to Chockchai Farm. It is a big farm with cows, both milking cows and farming cows. There I learned how to milk a cow. We also made ice cream. That night we had stake, the first time I have had stake this year. The next day, we left for home. I was sad to say goodbye to my international family.
Three days latter I went on a rotary trip with my club. I went to the northern part of Thailand. It was a lot cooler then I thought it would be. But I had fun with my club. We took a lot of selfies....
I have been going to school, learning stuff. A girl who came to Thailand in 2011-2012. She is from Washington. She came to visit. We explored my city together. I had fun to get to know her. I also went on a school trip. I went to Kanchanaburi. We saw a waterfall. It was very cool. I went swimming in my clothes because I forgot my swimsuit. I had fun.
In February, I celebrated Chinese new year. I like Chinese New year. The elders give money and riches to the children and grandchildren. My family involved me in the tradition. Then I suddenly without any warning switched host families. I am now staying with a family with two older sisters. One is 27, P'Mook, and the other is 20, P'Mood. P'Mook takes me out to get coffee on work brakes and we go jogging. Sometimes I go with her when she has a business thing and doesn't want to go alone. We have fun. P'Mood goes to a university in Bangkok. But right now, it is the term break, so she is staying at the house.
On the 4th, I went to Ong Prah with my friends. That was fun. That night I went to another temple and walked around the temple three times with a candle.
On the the 6th I went to the district conference of my Rotary district. I was a bit sad it was so close to home. It was in the center of Bangkok. But I got to see every one. We did a performance for everyone. We free danced to the song 'Happy', we did a Japanese dance, she had a slide show, we all introduced ourselves, and we had a speech. I am  the leader of the group. So I had to organize everything. But it worked out well. I was also one of the three who did the speech. It was me, Caroline from Denmark and Daiki from Japan. We had a great time laughing and trying to figure it all out.

A picture of the sunset

The view

more view

One temple

another temple(and my fav.)

My fav. temple....

steps in my fav. temple

My YEO, and my Host aunt watching the
 sun raid(AKA fog)

those hills thou...

One of the two guys in my club, and my host aunt. 

All of theses photos were from my rotary trip. I will post more tonight from my phone. there are more recent photos on that. 

~FRS

North Eastern Trip

I was excited to go on this trip for several reasons: I get to travel to two different countries, i get to meet the boy from South Africa, and I get to meet with my international family!!! On Monday, December 22, I headed to the Bangkok train station. There I meet with the three other kids in my area, Flora from America, Caroline from Denmark, and Kenny from Taiwan. There we waited for the rest of the southern kids to arrive by train. At noon, we all left by bus and headed for the Thai Cambodia border. I had fun catching up with everyone. We also stopped by a market. I didn’t buy anything though. We spent the night in Thailand. The next day we rode over to the office, and walked to Cambodia. Cambodia and Thailand are very similar in weather, food, and culture, however you can see a lot more poverty. children on the streets tried to sell you anything they could, and tried to play with your heart strings. it worked with some students. It was very difficult to not give them what they wanted. and if you made eye contact with them, then it was even more difficult to not buy anything. But, if anything good comes out of children not going to school, and instead learning trying to make money b/c their parents can’t, the kids learn a lot of languages. I talked to one boy who knew a little Chinese, Korean, English, Japanese, Thai, and Khmer, as well as some songs in other languages. I think that it is very cool. 

In the van driving to Siem Reap.

One of the rotarians told me to take a picture with a license plate.
Why not?

Scott played a game with the children in a floating school

When we got to Cambodia, we traveled to Siem Reap. There we went to a floating village at the Tonle Sap lake, went to an art factory, and went swimming at the pool in the hotel. The next day was Christmas eve. We traveled to Angkor Wat temple, went to the tomb from Indiana Jones tomb raider, as well as some other ruins. It was very interesting. That night we had dinner with a traditional Cambodian dance, and celebrated Christmas. We had a secret santa. It was very fun, a nd brought us closer together. 

Painting on silk at the art factory

More from the art factory

Denting patterns into tin

Wood carving

Selfie before Angkor Wat!!

Angkor Wat ft. Carolina

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat

View from Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat ft. Raul

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat

part of the the tomb raider temple

Christmas!!! ft Maia and Kelly

The next day, Christmas, We went back to Laos, but to get there, we had to go through Thailand. I was in three different countries, in one day!!! Laos is very different from Thailand. There is hardly any tourism at all, and there are no commercial stores. Christmas day night, we arrived at a resort late. The next day we left to visit a village. This village was very small and had virtually no money. I found that that there was about 20 people living in one house, witch was about the size of a one car garage. It was all very dirty, there were dogs everywhere, and pigs, and it was all very unsanitary. But, the thing is, they were all happy. Going to that village helped me realized, that you don’t need everything in the world to be happy. As long as you can appreciate what you have, then you have everything. 

Going to Laos!!!

The falls ft. Alex and Kenny

After the village, we had lunch at some water falls. It was amazing!! We climbed up to the top of the falls, and it was even more stunning. After lunch we went to the hotel. That night we had our language test. I feel like I did good, but then again, my hopes were not high. 

The view from the hotel

Another view

Selfie while going to Pukadung

The next day we went back to Thailand. We drove all day, and arrived at the base of Pukadung. That night we prepared for the hike. Pukadung is a mountain. We spent four nights. 
The hike up was hell in some places, and others not bad. I had fun. I walked up with Daiki from Japan, Risa from Japan, and Scott from South Africa. We stopped a little on the way, and the view got progressively better. Once we all got to the camp site, we took a shower(with a bucket of water) and relaxed. That night, it got cold. Maybe it wasn’t that cold, and I was just used to the heat, but I was very cold. The next day we went bike riding!! We rode all over the mount. It was so fun, and the view was great. We also watched the sun set. That was not very impressive, but I think we didn’t give it enough time. That night we all spent time together just talking, and relaxing. That was nice. The next day we started the day off by going to see the sunset. It too was not very impressive, but it was impressive to see the fog lift off of the city below. Later we walked around some of the trails that you can't go on by bike. We picked up trash along the way. We walked to falls all around the top of the mountain. The falls were very cool. The next day we started the decent. I walked with Daiki and Kenny from Taiwan. I had fun talking with them. along the way we picked up trash. It was slow going, but still just as tough as going up. When we finished, I was so happy!!!

View at the third stop( there were 4 in total)

Pine trees!!!!

Shade!!

On the top

The view

Am I scaring you yet mom?

Sunset(this looks better then I remember....) 

Sun rise 

One chilly morning at breakfast ft. Alex

Come back in a few days to catch up on my past month.


~FRS

Ocean world

Last Saturday I went to a concert. It was put on my my school in celabration of my schools birthday. The band the brought in is  very famous. A lot of people in the working class like the band. My host dad told me that at every concert there was a fight( 'because you know how drunk people are'). So, I was a little nervous to go, and my family even more so. But after lots of plans conserving my safety were made, I was aloud to go with my friends. I had to much fun. There was no fight, the concert was high secerity. I danced with my friends untill the night was done. I don't have a picture of all of us b/c they haven't sent it too me.....

The band

I went to school the next week, making cake and spending time with my family. Yesterday I went to ocean world with my family. The ocean world was at central(central is what they call shopping malls) in the middle of Bangkok. 

I had fun

I am getting ready for my next trip with rotary. I leave in the 22 and come back on the 2. I am very excited to see my exchange family. I miss the oodles and oodles. 

~FRS

Water park

So about a wek ago I got invited to go to a water park. I said yes(of corse, duh). This water park was supposed to officially open on December 1st, but I was going a day early. I was super excited. But on Friday before the water park, I went with my rotary club to a school about 45 miners away from my town. The school only had about 400 students from grades k-9. This school was not very nice, an had lacked a library. Then my rotary club came along and build this school one(a library). My club and a club in Taiwan had got togeather some money to build 3 library's for three schools in need. This was the second library. It was a nice library too. 

I woke up on Sunday, ready for the water park. I was so excited.  I will jut show some pictures. That will explane it all. 

I mean, just look at the size of that thing

And I went on it. Twice. It was a ton of fun. 

At the bar/pool. I had a mango smoothie. 

At the wave pool

Thank you so much for taking me!! I had a blast!

Also, here is a random sunset

~FRS