Once a year, the village cancels all classes for the day and hold what they call "sports day". I was really excited when I first learned that I would be here for this special day, but I was so wrong. 100+ degrees and standing and/or running the middle of an open field is as close to hell as I can possibly imagine. Not because it was not fun, but because I have never been so freaking hot in my life and I would never wish it upon anyone. I figured I would be good at a day devoted to sports considering my competitive nature and history playing so many sports but I couldn't have been more wrong. I was sweating just watching everyone run around for hours, and when it came my turn to play the 8 legged race....I about passed out. I have a whole new respect for the Thai culture and their ability to play soccer for hours and not drip one bead of sweat. I don't know how they do it..
On a lighter note, I was not completely useless today! My team was the PINK team so painted all of my fellow teammates faces this morning before the games began and I must say, they looked pretty damn good. Some of the boys dressed as ladyboys and the girls were dressed in every shade of pink imaginable. I have never been even the slightest bit fond of the color, but today it was my favorite. I went into town last night with a girl who works in the village and bought pink jingly pants, pink ray bans, a sparkly pink flower headband, and sparkly pink nail polish. Pink might just be my new favorite color...:)NOT!
Anyways, time is flying by and every time I have something exciting to write in my blog, I let a few days go by and it because a story in the past. I seriously need to get better about writing this thing because I feel like a million crazy things have happened and nobody knows. For example, I crashed a Thai wedding reception last Friday night, fell off of a motor bike last Saturday, got my fifth Thai massage Sunday, and got my sixth on Monday. Four new volunteers arrived on Monday evening and twenty five new volunteers arrive in two weeks. Tomorrow instead of teaching Saturday camp, we are going to a village to "house hop" for special holiday. I have yet to understand exactly what the holiday is but I think it's similar to Easter except they only dye the eggs red and basically drink all day and all night, and then do it again the next day. The "house hopping" portion of the day consists of myself and several of the volunteers and staff going from house to house in a village and drinking and eating at every single place. My body/mind is still recovering from last friday when we did the same thing, only to celebrate Sonkran. I have come to the conclusion that Thai people do not get hangovers, yet they can out drink any Farang under the table. I am making it my mission to find out tomorrow exactly how they do it. I will report back and tell you when I find out;)After celebrating all day tomorrow, myself and the other volunteers are going into town for the weekend to celebrate another successful week at Mirror. I am SURE I will have stories when I return!!!
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