January 28, 2006

Happy Chinese New Year!!! We woke up to festive firecrackers at 6:30am this morning. HILARE. Good thing we had to be up early for an audition day.

Cheddar is trying to eat my ibook charger cord right now. NO! It's Saturday and it's beautiful today...reminds me of Mexico. The air is dry and the sun is warm...ahhh. I never want to leave (not entirely true). Dave and I have decided to move into the sweet house that we looked at last weekend. We talked with the owners and they said that they want us to live there because our wedding will make the house happy. I love Thai superstitions. They are even buying a large Thai style dinner table for the house so that we can bring our wedding guests to the house for a reception. I guess that will make the house very happy! I can't wait to garden...it's easy here..orchids grow wild and nothing ever dies. Sweet.

I'm reading this book about a girl's experience in Thailand. She came in 1987 as a high school exchange student. It's called "Dream of a Thousand Lives" by Karen Connelly. I can't explain how I feel about the book b/c her words are my words. The experiences she had are what I'm living. It's amazing. One sentence that really got me.." I'm in Bangkok and I miss Thailand." It's soooo true. You can walk into the nicest 5 star hotel you have ever seen, eat the best lemongrass creme brulee you have ever had AND for the cheapest price. But that's not Thailand. Not to me. When I come back to the 2 L-shaped streets that make up the town we live in..then I'm in Thailand. Anyway, it's a great book and way more articulate than my blog. So check it out!!

Obviously I'm getting into Thai-related materials. I'm also reading a book about Buddhism and next is an ethnography about women in the Thai work force. COOL! We're going to take pictures of the new house today..YAHOO!