Wake Up In The Morning Feeling Like P. Diddy

If you consider this blog sort of an online journal, I guess last week is the week where the pages get torn out because nothing interesting happens. To be honest, it wasn't a great week. I was pretty sick, I'm pretty sure the mono I caught junior year of college flared back up. Julia had a friend in town and they went up to Pai (a more primitive town located a few hours away), and I had to back out of the trip because I just wasn't feeling good. That was last weekend, and its only been in the last day or two that I have started to feel better. It was a week full of laying in bed, sleeping, lack of internet, a little stress, a little sadness, and just overall feeling like crap. But its over, I feel better and I'm putting it behind me.

My friend Leah, who Julia and I know from our program, was in town with her mom today. So I went and met the two of them and Julia for dinner. It was actually very nice to see her, to hear about some of the people from our program who stayed in Cambodia (in Phnom Penh, where she works), and to get the latest scuttlebutt about the teachers and students we all know. Plus she is a lot of fun, as was her mom, and we had a great time at dinner. (Though my stomach still hurts from the huge burrito I ate. But in a good way. :) ) After dinner, we dropped her mom off at their guesthouse, and caught a taxi to the first ever Smile Full Moon Party. We rode about twenty minutes outside of town to a big forest preserve. They had set up a big stage and had bands going, and between bands they had some crazy fire dancers, whipping around balls and staffs that were on fire. It was very cool, live music outside, in the middle of a forest preserve, right next to a lake, surrounded by fellow twenty somethings all just trying to rock out and have a good time. It was a pretty excellent evening.

Tomorrow Julia and I embark on an adventure to Laos to get our visa's renewed. We need to head to a Thai consulate to apply for a new 3 month visa, so we are taking an overnight bus tomorrow night. Kind of a shame for the blog, right as I am getting back into the swing of things, I have to leave for 3 days, but I'm glad I started to feel a bit better, because 13 hours on a bus overnight would not have been fun if I was still sick. But I'm charging my camera and I'm sure I will have lots of stories and pictures from my trip. Sorry for the lack of wit or humor in this post, but its 2 am and I'm still recovering from mono. :) Hope everyone is doing well back home!

TPWWLT - Ke$ha - Tik Tok (and I'm not apologizing.)