The last week

This is my last week in Chiang Mai and I'm much more sad to leave than I ever thought that I would be. It is hard being torn to be at the two places you love the most.

Here I have found that I have learned so much through the people I've met, about myself as well as others. I've even fund that I love teaching...go figure. It will be extremely difficult to leave the friends that I have made and have the possibility of never seeing them again.

At the temple, they gave us a going away party and we got to go to the zoo with some of our students on Saturday. It was difficult because to us now the monks are not monks so much but good friends. But we can only at like good friends within the temple because we are not in view of the public. When we went to the zo we had to act as strangers anytime a group passed by and even then we got sme stares. They are respected holy men within the society and we are American college girls. So we always have to be careful not to get them or ourselves in trouble. However, it was a blast and I learned so much more about them that day.

It will also be hard to leave my host family because I have come to care for them very much. They want me to cme back and visit at some point and who knows maybe I will.

We are going n a field trip of thailand for a week then we go on spring break for two weeks. My friends and myself are going to Ko Chang. It is a smaller island but we like that it is closer so that we can have more vacation time.

love you all

Amy