Rotary Youth Exchange: October 2014

So you are probably wondering why it has been taking me so long to make a new blog post. Well the answer is simple, one I felt like if I waited something really cool and worthy of blogging about would happen, two I hate making chronological posts about every day of my life, three this time I wanted to edit my pictures, and finally for me writing a blog post takes hours, and i just haven't found the time to sit down and type it all out. Also I feel like reading giant dragging on paragraphs about my life is pretty boring, so I am going to change it up this time.

Top Five Quotes To Describe How I Felt The Past Few Week

1. "The Purpose of life is not always to be happy, but rather it is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and you have lived well" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

YE Robby, volunteering to teach english

2. "Taking naps sounds so childish. I prefer to call them horizontal life pauses"

3. "Just be kind and brave, that is all you will ever need"

Elephant keeper and a baby elephant

4. "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be"

5. "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"- E.M Forster

I want to say these bells have some sort of special meaning, but I am not sure what that meaning is.

Top Ten Things I have Done

1. Rode an Elephant

Elephant bath time

2. Bamboo Rafting

3. Taught English

5. Volunteered with autistic children

6. Crashed a Thai wedding

7. Birthday party at Night Market with other exchange students

8. Road trip with Olivia

Made it to Pai Safely

Hot Chocolate at Cat Cafe in Chiangrai

9. Visit to pai

My Pictures could not caption the true beauty of Pai

10. Visit to Chiangrai

The White Temple

Five Least Favourite Things I Have Done

1. Napped (A LOT)

2. Sat at school for eight hours

3. Got sick

4. Sat in the hospital with Olivia for countless hours (She fine by the way, just some Dengue fever, sounds serious but she is recovering well from it)

5. Paid my phone bill

Most Beautiful Things I Have Seen Since My Last Update

1. Pai

2. The white temple

3. The Chiang Rai University

Random Things That Do Not Fit In Any Of the Above Categories

1. Made some traditional Thai pottery

2. Made a traditional Thai lantern

3. Read If I Stay In 4 hours

4. Went to see Maze Runner

5. Had a lovely breakfast at a restaurant near my parents store

6. Visit a School/Temple where homeless children from hill tribes live... (this was incredible visit, and be able to donate some money to them, but it also broke my heart)