Dear Charles #18,

i have a feeling this will be my last post while i'm abroad, which is the craziest thought ever. me and conner leave for the longest few travel days of my life tomorrow at 3:30 pm. i leave thailand. i come to tacoma. i leave friends. i come to family. i leave family. i come to friends. its all a part of me now :)

tonight p'lut is having a going away dinner for me at the coffee shop :) i've never had someone have a going away thing before that wasnt my idea. so it will be great. and kyndra will be there which makes it a thousand times better. she got home from the states on thursday while me and conner were making a quick trip down to chiang mai to do some normal stuff...see some baby monkeys, go to the markets...bungee jump. you know. :)

i've been on the internet catching up on stuff for the 2 hours or so, so i will write about the bungee jumping in a bit. most likely when i get back in the states, but by that time i can just tell you to your face now cant i? i wonder what i'll do with this blog...maybe write on it every now and then. i can transfer it into my 'going-to-college' blog. it will be much less exciting though. so maybe i'll save myself the trouble of no one reading it and have this just be my thailand blog, a fun...short lived but tremendously successful series of posts about a treasured time in my life.

thank you thank you to everyone that has prayed for me and supported me while i've been here. there really isnt enough that i can say about this experience. and you helped me! you helped me get here and you helped me stay here! this time in my life has been a polished spoon out of a set of tarnished ones...bad analogy, but you get the idea :) i'll see you all very soon.