In Chiang Mai

Well I am in Chiang Mai now and I am living in a hotel until June. I have a job interview on monday and will be meeting with some more schools next week. Luckily I have a better chance at getting a job because I am TEFL certified. Also, one of my students picked me up from the airport and dorve me around today to some language schools. Everything has been going really well considering this is only day two. However I think i need to go now because the man sitting next to me is hitting on me and he is married.....bad.

I'll start posting pictures as soon as I start taking them.

Amy

House of Representative

Here is the House or Reps. floor where all the voting takes place. I got to be introduced to all the House members here and be viewed on PCN (The PA version of CNN).

After the presentation, Dad and I walked around Harrisburg and also visited Gettysburg. For all you history nerds, this is the Cospe (spelling??) of trees.

This is the friend I met in Harrisburg....

Apparently he's a Patriots fan.

This is the State Capitol where I worked.

Well this is me holding my certification of completion for the House internship. I presented an original piece of legislation in the Majority Caucus room as the final project of our internship.

What's neat about this is my legislation is a real legal document and the semi-lobbying education organization I interned at in the fall might propose it as a solution to decrease teacher turnover (thats the issue my bill addresses).

Walking around Carlisle, Pa

Two of my roommates and myself decided to stay at school this semester over fall break and go to see the famous Carlisle Indian Industrial school. We only found a museum because the actual school is an army barrack now but while walking we found my Thai restaurant.....I didn't even know I had one!

Its a crazy world. Anyways a quick update. I'm applying to BU for the MBA/MA international Relations program and Tufts U. for the Master in Law and Diplomacy program. Honestly, I'm not sure if I'll get excepted to either. BUt for now I'll try. Also, I have an interview for the Fellowship Legislative Internship Program with the Pa state goverment on Monday the 15th. So wish me luck!

Its a full-time paid internship and you wokr with representatives and get to create your own piece of policy, present it, and have it reviewed. I'm excited.

No news just pictures.

Nothing new lately. Julie, Shauna, and I ate dinner at Lauren and Ryan's which was wonderful...love those dream dishes! But besides that I've been working, studying, seeing the doctor's for my knee, and writing essays. Therefore, here are some more pictures from Thailand for you to enjoy. They were all taken during my tour of the country. We rented a golf cart to tour the summer palace because the place was huge and it was wicked hot.

Photos

Buddha image head now a party of a tree that grew over it.
Ancient Ayuttya
The summer palace memorial to a king's consort who was lost at sea. She died because at the time servants were not allowed to touch royalty so the servants who were in the boat with her were afraid to try and save her. She couldn't swim and drowned so the king at that time made a memorial to her telling his love for her, this small sanctuary, and planted her favorite flower all over.
A temple I saw at a temple festival. Maybe I mentioned it in my blog...that was a crazy night.

Since I got a hang on the photo posting thing, I'm just going to post a few from thailand. Enjoy!

A really cool temple....known as a "wat"

Graduation

The sun set at graduation. It was mahachulalonkornrajavidiyala university in Bangkok.

I have WAY more pictures so tell me if you want to see more.

Way too many beautiful flowers to post! This one is pretty common. (I think its a water lily type thing)

This is Wat Suan Dok...where I worked.

Home

Being home has been going well. I had a great time at the wedding last weekend and was really glad to see all of my family. Lately I have been getting my MBA applications together and will be taking the GMATS at the end of the summer so I have been studying out of one of those ginormous practice books.

Last night my friends and I played Pit (the best card game ever) and had a campfire. It started to rain when we had the campfire so we decided that instead of going inside we'd have a campfire in the rain. I sat outside with one of those huge red and white golf umbrellas and shared the dryness with anyone who wished it. However, everyone was pretty content being wet.

Finally, I would like to talk about my cousin bit. She is a wonderful girl and we spent some time chatting at the wedding. Unfortunately for her she was sucked into a seemingly innocent thing called a chocolate fountain. Its yumminess and lovely display would suck anyone in. But she soon realized that it should be called the "chocolate messy fountain" as she describes it because when you eat the gooey yumminess, you usually get covered in chocolate. So we made a video to protest the name and I took pictures as evidence. I cannot load the video (if someone would like to tell me how that would be great) but if all goes well the pictures should be her.

Bit, I shared your injustice because I love you.

Amy

My last post from Thailand

I am coming home next Wednesday and have been teaching as well as traveling a little bit. I went to Burma last week to extend my time in Thailand until I leave. I took a bus there, crossed the border, paid 500 baht and bought some videos. Then I came back on another bus. I wasn't there very long but it was a great place to buy videos. For about a $1.25 I got 16 movies on 1 DVD. It was very nice.

My friend Sarah left yesterday and I am preparing to go home. I will see you all very soon.

Amy