did you know its the year 2551 in thailand????? also my stay in the hospital(not me)

alright, so funny thing, is atgain im lookin forward to school, and well same as last time....
i was dissapointed!
so arrive at school and find a few of my friends, not all, and then i just hang out with them, we get all the way untill lunch time without going to a class, and im starting to wonder when, if ever, we'll go!
so i ask my friend and he says(rough translation) oh this week we dont have class either!
what!
so i ask why , and basically whats happening is that a committe was coming to school to rate the grounds, and all this week, te teachers were painting cleaning and other chores, so they could make the place presentable, and you know. get a good score or something, and pretty much for students, its you really dont have to come to school, so i stayed for the rest of monday,and then headded home
oh yeah!
i also got my class ring that day!
its cool, its silver, and had nps on the front, for nam phong suksa the schools age, 40 my class, 6/1(6=seniors, and 1= best students in the senior class, its wierd how they split kids up like that, and really the only reason im there is that im an american, i mean, those dudes are doin calculus and stuff like that, it took me 3 trys to pass algebra 1!!!!!!(dad, on the second time was only like... 20% my fault, remember mr. simpson! he was a bad dude, he was fired after that semester...ok))
oh and also they have the number 50 on it too, which was wierd to me at first, i asked around, and i found out...wait get this... in thailand last year was the year 2550, it just turned 2551, i should of known, they dont go off of the christian calandar that western world uses... um because, thier buddhist!
its funny i was talking to my dad about this, and his reply was
"who the heck do they think they are not goin by our calander!!! dont they know were the biggest baddest nation around??? we could blow them out of the water if we wanted to!!!" ect....
my dad and i then had a nice chat about western arrogance... so if you see him remind him for me!
555

alright, where was i?
oh so after i got home my i found out my host br didnt have school either, so we just hung out and watched movies and stuff until thursday,
thusrday night, i found out that one of my friends in khon kaen, carol had to hafve her appendix out, apperantly she woke up feeling terriblle, and when she went to the hospital, they told her it had to come out, so they did the surgey, and for the next couple days sheed be in the hospital.
friday i went to go and see her. she was doing fine, she was in a little pain, but we were able to get her morphine(which mad things pretty funny, ill tell you later) it was me maria, and another friend, megan, who were at the hospital, aperantly theyd stayed the night ther, and they asked me if id do the same, so i asked carol, she said it was cool with her, and my hm said fine, so i stayed there for the next 2 nights.
pretty much what we did was watch movies and keep carol company, the first night wasnt very hard, she was pretty doped up on morphine and she slept alot, there was one time though, when maria and megan were out getting food, and i was hangin out with her by myself where it got pretty funny!
carol had just gotten her morphine, i was sitting next to her bed, and we were watching some movie, pochahantas(did i spell that right?) i think...
when very slowly carol turns to me and goes
"ryan?"
"yep?"
"hey, so i wanna tell you something"(shes kind slurring words right now)
"whats up?"
"soooo, if not for the fact that, you basically l;ive with us, and that your like a brother figure to me, ryan, you would make a great boyfriend"(whole time shes not even looking at me, shes kinda zoning to disney)
i kinda start to laught, but you know turn it into a cough, and go
"really?"
"yes, you know ryan, your just a good guy"
(still trying not to laugh)"well...thanks carol that means alot"
"yeah... and i know this is probly the morphine talking.. but i think you should know that"

that was our pretty much our conversation, i asked her later if she rememberd what she said, she said she did, it was preetty funny, and that she wasnt embarased by it(which is the reason that im cool with typing it up!)

like i said, i stayed the next night also, the 2 girls and i kept her company, andwell since i dint havve a change of clothes, i smelled pretty bad by the time o got home on sunday night(even though id taken a shower there, my clothes still reeked!)
and that is the reason why im doin a late post, so here it is, also i just rememberd
something that happend between me and my old host dad(the one that drank alot) cause i just remembered it today, and it was pretty funny, so ill end with that....

before i tell you guys, uyou have to know thast in thai, the word no is mai, abd when my hd is drunk, he likes to practice his english skills!

so its late one night, and im up watching a movie, and my hd is up drinking whiskey(something you guys gotta know, in thai culture, its perfectly aceptabe to get drunk every night, its just one of those wierd thai things i guess)
and hes gone through about half a bottle by himself, so hes pretty smashed, when i get up to use the bathroom, i walk past him but he, still sitting down, stopps me and just wraps his arms around my waist and gives me a hug, i laugh and ask
mao mai?
(are you drunk?)
he sits, thinks REAL hard for a second, and with a look af satisfaction on his face, he says,
"mo"
prtty much he was so drunk he tryied to say mai and no ath the same time, and came up with mo!
i thoought it was hillarious!

hope you do too, and well thats my week!
peace!
ryan