Trip Planning

All right! Plans are in place!

- I get back from the full moon party Saturday night, when I'm going to take Ray to a ping pong show.
-I'm going to school the whole week next week (!) and then Thursday leaving for Chiang Mai. Andy are going to hang out there for a day before we head to Laos for the "Gibbons Experience." I'm soooooooooooooo excited. For $180 we're going on a two-night three-day guided tour deep into the Laos jungle, where we'll literally ZIP LINE from tree house to tree house, take hikes to Laos waterfalls, and sleep in the tree houses at night.
- When I get back I'll spend a day in Bangkok and then head to Hong Kong for 7 days, two or three of which Meris, Marney, Dylan and I are going to try to spend in Beijing. I can't believe I'm actually visiting China. This is the one country in Asia they actually bother to teach you about in the public school system. Yikes! I'm excited.
- Get back from China on the 10th and I already have my train ticket booked for Chiang Mai for the 11th. Almost everyone in the entire exchange program is going for Songkran, the Thai new year. Want to know what Thais do to celebrate? Water fight! Water balloons and water guns everywhere in the street. About 20 of us have divided up into teams already, and we're going to spend the whole trip soaking each other.
- Should get back from Songkran and have a few days in Bangkok before Mommy and Daddy come. THEN we're flying to Phi Phi Island, where Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Beach" was filmed. From what I hear and picture's I've seen it's the landscape you think of when you think of Thailand - clear water and giant rocks jutting up from the ocean.

After all of that I actually might have to go back to school for finals. (Ugh.)