The Rush

Thursday was a big rush.  If I had to choose a picture to describe it, I'd pick one of those pictures of a busy street with many people, out of focus and blurry...  It felt like the day was never going to end, yet it was over when it just started.

Leah and I cleaned and packed all day, and then we cooked dinner for our party.  The party was a big one, bigger than last term's party.  We cooked a lot more food.  The meal consisted of Filipino spaghetti (which kicks original spaghetti's butt any day), french fries, cake, doughnuts, and chicken.  It was a fabulous occasion.  

I filled up on the spaghetti quickly, it is my favorite food as of lately!! I couldn't eat anything else after I ate a whale's portion of it.  The students were so much fun.  We played musical chairs, which was a big hit.  We used the Christmas Hippopotamus song as the music.  Next, we did a huge gift exchange which was followed by a few joyous Christmas songs.  Finally, the food was the last event we all enjoyed.  I quickly ate as fast as I could because Leah and I had train tickets for 630 which cut it really close to when the party ended.  In fact, we fled the party as soon as we could because we were fearful of not getting there in time!  

John, one of my students, is a police officer and he is so kind.  He drove us to the train station and even bought us some food.  He claimed it was our New Year's present.  How kind he is! The whole day had been such a blur, everything had gone by so fast.  And I could hardly believe, as the train was leaving the station, that our Christmas break had just begun!  

The train ride wasn't as scary this time.  Although it is a little different on the top bunk.  I found my body clinging to the wall of the train in the middle of the night.  I think I was subconsciously fearful of flinging onto the floor.  I did wake up a few times, thinking that we were going to have a head on collision with an oncoming train, and I also woke to the train completely

stopped in the middle of nowhere.  We must have been there, stopped dead in our tracks for a good while before we took off again.  Weird...

I am currently in Bangkok's SDA Language school and it is so surreal that I am here.  My vacation, the vacation I have been waiting and anticipating for a good while now, has finally arrived.  It's a mix of emotions being here.  I'm happy to see the familiar faces of our coffee lady and other, and I can't wait to see our friends, but I'm also really

anxious to see my family!  Yay for break and the holidays!!!!