I made it 2 months!

This is probably going to be a short entry (yet somehow when I say that it always ends up being a novel) as not much happened this past week/weekend. We had our first 5 day week in 3 weeks and it made me remember how long the weeks can be. Time is very weird here: some days seem like they take forever and some seem to fly by and last week felt so long but when you look at my time here as a whole it's been 2 months already! I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder--can you believe it? Two months?!

We've had some interesting food experiences at school the last few weeks. I'm not sure why they eat some of the things they eat, but they really just shouldn't. We got to lunch one day and it looked fine and well; we were scooping our bowls full and came to the meat tray. On it were cubes of gelatinized pig's blood (we decided not to get those cuz they were in the soup a couple weeks ago and we aren't really fans.) I thought I'd never have to eat blood cubes again (my senora made them for us in Spain--sick) but lo and behold the Thais love their blood too! So, we bypassed the Type AB+ and started scooping what appeared to be pork and onions. Well we chewed the 'onions' and they were kinda chewy--well really chewy--so we just came to the conclusion that they were probably tentacles or seafood and kept on eating (they tasted okay..harmless enough). You know you've been here too long when tentacles are an okay thing to munch on. Then Michelle sat down and revealed the truth: the onions were not onions nor were they tentacles, they were strips of pig skin. Right as she said that Emily picked up a piece by one of the hairs that was still attached to its dermal layers and we almost all lost it right there. Let's just say we didn't eat much that day.

Other than the culinary adventures, not much else happened this week. We went to see Avatar this weekend which was an awesome awesome movie. It is visually stunning and the story was pretty great too. We've memorized some of the commercials before the movie and still get goosebumps during the King's anthem (oh yea and we're huge fans of the cheesy popcorn!). Sunday we watched movies, including The Beach with Leo. It was filmed on Ko Phi Phi Ley which is the island next to Ko Phi Phi Don (where we are staying for part of our holiday break.) After seeing the movie I can't wait to get down there. We leave Christmas night on a 13 hr overnight bus ($15) and will spend the 26-28 at my friend Jenny's dad's house on Phuket. He is picking us up from the bus station and taking us up to their mountain home overlooking the ocean--wow, I wish I had that. It is so nice of them to offer their home to us and it sounds like they are really excited to have us come down. Then the 29-2 we'll be on Ko Phi Phi in a hostel/bungalow setup and head back home on the overnight bus on the 2nd. It's gonna be so relaxing and so so so beautiful--Phi Phi is supposed to have the best beaches in Thailand!