Exchange Student Brittni and I both agree:
The world will end in 2012.
(The Aztech Calendar does NOT LIE)

I have mixed emotions.
but - mostly good ones.

Sure there are a number of things I won't be able to experience.
Like being an old person. Or University graduation.

BUT HEY! I won't have to worry about long term future.
JUST THE NEXT 4 years - what a deal.
Plus I get to die at 22 - what a pretty number.

ON A LESS APOCALYPTIC NOTE
Thai school is just as adorable as it was when I left it. They were all excited to see me yesterday. A few friend helped me buy a SIM Card yesterday afterschool - only problem is the phone that Joe Crawford left here is pretty much broken down and dead. (If you can call that "neon pink gadget - smaller than my pinky" a phone). So..I will have to see if I can borrow another -
If not - I think it would be pointless to buy a phone when I have almost 2 weeks left here.

So. I am looking foward to a booked weekend with my
bound to be exciting multicultural homosexual brunch on saturday - and then a trip to Wat Prakaew with my Thai Song teacher Ajahn Pintong.

More Later!
I am off to do some more Karaoke in my room.
(Oh Life.)

Yesterday, I finally decided to leave house.
[I am pretty much the last exchange student left. Going places alone is just so unappealing]

I decided to go somewhere new. Rather than turning left and heading towards Central Plaza, I turned right, crossed two walking bridges, and found myself in an area that didn't have much of anything. I got some extremely funny looks which all asked "is he lost?" or "what the hell?"- I was unaffected - being used to these looks now. I decided to begin my journey by hopping on a bus. I didn't recognize any of the numbers - so I picked 89. The only destination I remember from reading the bus is "สวนผัก" which I'd also never heard of.

I got the same looks from the passengers - they were all waiting to see how this lost foreigner was going to handle riding a bus - because he'd surely never done that before.

Jon: โทษครับพี่ ผมมีแต่฿100 ใช้ได้ไหม

Bus Woman: O_O; ...ได้?

Apparently they don't see my kind often.

Anyways. The bus kept going - and passed through the Charoen Nakorn area - then passed an area I didn't recognize. I followed my gut and got off before getting too lost [the bus game is fun - but when you're playing alone you gotta know when to draw the line.]

I decided to hop on the 542 to MBK. I need to restart at a well known point, if I felt like playing more I could go from there. I walked up through MBK to the walkway - then the Paragon. I decided to pick up a few cheap movies.

A movie director from Malaysia (whom I accidentally tried to speak Thai to.) convinced me that "Beautiful Boxer" was the best choice - it was only 69 Baht so I gave it a try. I also picked up two others "The Last Life in the Universe" and "Invisible Waves" - and then Tattoo Color CD on impulse.