Dear Charles #2

guess what?! im in thailand fools! i just arrived yesterday, and have not had internet access till today. haha how conformed am i? "oh no! no internet for 3 days! what will i do?" really i was just anticipating coming to my blog to tell you all about my crazy last four days. not at all to see which of you love me enough to write me and wish me a safe and happy journey. so far only 6 of you have proven to be true friends. thanks true friends, you know who you are.
so my disgustingly long journey has brought me to Chiang Rai, Thailand. it is absolutely beautiful here. theres something about this place that makes me feel like ive been here a long time, and another part that is wondering why i havent come sooner. everyone here is so nice and have been so good to me. creepishly nice and helpful....as if someone wrote them....and told them i had.."special needs"...i might have to have a talk with some of you. hhmm.
so i traveled for, i think 2 and a half days? im way to lazy to calculate out the time change and find out what it really was. plus i get a bigger reaction if i say two and a half days as opposed to just one or two. you know its all true too. here's how it goes. "so ive traveled for about a day... response: oh, huh, thats not horrible but still a bummer. im sorry." REVISED CONVO- "yeah man it took me two and half days to get here....response: two and half days?! man thats brutal!" so this is how it goes. anyone saying different is lying.
also...i promised him we would try and find his mother while we're here. alright so, my first plain ride was 11 hours to alright so on to the travel. first off id like to introduce you all to bobar. he is my very best travel companion ever, and a gift from my brother conner for christmas. he is a teal elephant, and he will undoubtedly be making appearances in this blog. he's new to thailandtokyo. that sucked. the guy i was sitting by spoke one word of english, which was hello, so you can imagine how far our conversation went. eleven hours after that he shocked me by waving as he walked away...but it was a wave from the heart, it was all in the flick of the wrist, i knew he'd miss me. so when i got off the plain i had another flight to bangkok shortly after, and when i got off the walkway thing you take to go to the plain there was a small asian woman who was saying something about a transfer flight to bangkok, so i told her i was going to bangkok and she quickly told me to go up the stairs and look for another lady, that i had to hurry because the flight was boarding, and she said a few other things in japanese. she was pretty frantic. so i got pretty nervous that i was going to miss it, so i started running. looking completely foolish no doubt, with a backpack twice my size jumbling around on my back and a purse full of nerds that were rattling with every step. so i find a line to security and a small japanese lady pops out of a crowd with huge eyes and says " o you fo' plain do ban-kok?" i said yes so she hurried me to the front of the security line, passed a woman in a wheelchair (my conscious will be heavy for years) and quickly to a group of three other people who were also on the flight. so we all started running through the airport, behind this woman who was no taller then me but still half my size with a sign over her head that said the flight number and gate. after about 5 min. of running like fools, peeking over bags and people to find the woman we were following we made it to the gate. we ran up to the counter, i was panting, and sweating (no big shock there) the person looked at my ticket and just said.."no no no- you wrong flih" hahahaha, i was not on that flight! there was a list of four people on this woman's list of people that were coming from my flight from seattle to the flight to bangkok so shortly after. i looked at the list and the woman was pointing to the name "flogarty" so i laughed and said im not flogarty im peirson! so she got huge wide eyes and put her hands on her head and started rambling in japanese, so she turned and ran back to the gate to find the real flogarty, while i found my real gate # for my flight and calmly walked there. it turns out my flight was delayed 2 hours. ahaha, isnt that just how it goes?
so i made it to bangkok at 2:00 am and had to wait there for 12 hours! for my flight at 2:00 pm the next day. i tried to get some sleep but i had all my bags with me because they didnt get checked through all the way to chiang rai, and i was too paranoid that someone would steal my 48 lb. bag right in front of me to go to sleep. looking back that was dumb. but i met some nice people while waiting. one man was about 85, he was thai...i could hardly understand anything he was saying but we talked sure enough for about half an hour.
so now im here! im at the school that im gonna be working at right now, in the library. its so funny to be writing to you all and hearing a gaggle of thai students talking to each other in the background. haha i guess i d better get used to it.
i'll write when i can. i hope you all are doing alright and that tacoma is recovering from my absence. i understand if youre all in shambles, i would be too. love to everyone! peace-anna