April 9, 2006

What a comeback...as in, my coming back to Thailand. I haven't been here a week and I'm busy busy. We had a ridiculous ant problem when I came home. Oh..it was nasty. I thought there were just a few ants on the floor so I went down with a paper towel to stomp them out and then hundreds of them came racing out of the cracks, crawling up my hand. Aewww! That gave me the goose bumps prettty fast. Yuck! I didn't have any ant bait either, so I used the next best thing..oils. I made a mixture of lemon and peppermint oil and haven't seen any since. I guess they hate the smell..sweet.

So today was an exciting day b/c I got contacts! I found this hospital with a great reputation and made an appt for last Friday. I show up and the doctor wasn't there (I wasn't surprised at all). But luckily there was someone else there to see me. Anyway, so I came back today and got fitted for my contacts. I'm so excited. It took me soo long to get them in..maybe 25 minutes and then it took me another 20 to get them out. I haven't put them on again b/c I'm not excited about how long it takes..so I'll save that adventure for tomorrow.

Next week is the big water festival, which marks the hottest week of the year and the Thai calender new year. I think it'll be 2847 or something? Can't remember exactly. It also marks the King's 60th year as King. He's very very very popular here..you'll see in a sec. I'm going to the backpacker part of town for the water festival. I can't wait to see what it's all about!! Stay tuned for pictures...

The past few weeks has also been interesting in politics. The Prime Minister resigned. He's been in the spotlight for months after selling his multi-billion company tax free. There have been protests etc for months and he had a meeting with the King last week and the next day he resigned (told you the King was popular). The people I've talked to our excited..can you imagine if Bush stepped down?? Ahh...no harm in dreaming...

P.S. UCLA sucks Big TIME..hehehe