Ashley's Visit

It's been an awesome time having Ashley come visit us.  She's finished teaching because she didn't teach at the SDA Language school in Bangkok, she taught at the a normal Thai school, meaning her school ended when most of the other schools in Thailand did.  Our school on the other hand is year round because it's a language school.  Ashley could not have come at a worse time for us.  Leah and I have not had such a busy schedule all year... this week we woke up early every day at 730 to teach a tutorial from 8-10, then we had class from 10-12...  thankfully we had a three hour break to roam the city with Ashley, then we had to come back and teach from 330-630pm.  What a busy schedule, I am so exhausted right now!  

Ashley got here Tuesday morning bright and early, she actually woke me up at 5 am to tell me that she couldn't pay her taxi because her bill was too high, he couldn't break it, and that she was needing me to come downstairs and pay him for her!  I was so waked out, but it was really fun to see her, so I ran down there as fast as I could.  Leah woke up, too, and we all talked till Leah and I had to go and teach.  

Tuesday afternoon we headed into the center of Ubon to drink Starbucks and enjoy some good food. That night we took her to the park to see the night life of Ubon, it was fun!  Wednesday we got our hair straightened and enjoyed some Italian food for dinner.  Thursday consisted of Indian food, facials, and an attack from insects.  Seriously, last night was insane!!  Leah was in a panic because she saw an enormous spider in her bedroom, and she has a fear of spiders, so it was really bad that it was big!  

As Ashley was peering into the room, a cockroach suddenly appeared on the floor and I screamed to Ashley telling her to run so it wouldn't crawl on her... I swear it touched her foot, Ashley ran towards me with sudden fear!  Now we had two enemies in Leah's room: the enormous cockroach and gigantic spider.  Ashley and I were on a mission to kill them both, but our biggest concern was the cockroach, we HATE those things!  It took a little while, but we tacked it down, sprayed with pest spray, and smooshed it till the guts were everywhere.  

The task was only half complete... we still had to spot the spider.  It took us a while, but we eventually found it hiding on the side of the desk in Leah's room.  We devised a plan in which I moved the desk and Ashley attacked it with her shoe.  The first strike didn't work, she missed and it sent the spider in hiding again, eventually we saw it on the wall, and Ashley killed it.  During this process of searching for it again, a centipede came crawling out of the wall.  Ashley and I were both screaming so much and jumping up and down!  Seriously, in the matter of half an hour, we saw a cockroach, giant spider, and slimy centipede.  I kept wondering: WHERE ARE WE!!!??!

Seriously? Seriously?  Is this really happening??  We killed them all.  Thank the Lord. But, I didn't really have a good sleep last night, I kept waking up every so often thinking something was crawling on me, I did sleep on the floor next to Ashley because Leah couldn't sleep in her bed, I couldn't blame her, the spider was freaky, so I let her sleep in my bed, poor girl.  It was a traumatic experience for us all.  

I am so sad to see Ashley leave.  We just saw her off.  This will be the last time I'll see her in Thailand.  Wow.  It's really sad.  She leaves in 10 days.  Never again will we all be in Thailand seeing each other, and who's to say how much I'll see of her in the States, we don't even live close to each other.  It makes me really sad, my time left here is short... so short, wow!!