One night in Bangkok....

Sah-Wah-Dee-kah!

Greetings from Bangkok International! We'll we've had quite the trip so far...3 days ago approximately we left San Francisco airport. 11 hours later we arrived in Tokyo, after a 3 hour layover and a bowl of ramen, we boarded our 6 hour flight to Bangkok. We got in at around midnight, checked into the hotel across the street, then woke up 3 hours later for our 4:30am wake up call. Upon arrival at the Bangkok airport, we find out that 9 out of our group of 45 (myself included) would not make it on the flight to Phnom Pehn.

We decided to make the best of it by locking up our luggage at the airport and taking a cab into the city. We visited the Grand Palace with the famous Emerald Buddah, enjoyed a delicious lunch, and walked around some markets. We even saw a monk holding a monkey wearing a skirt, halter top, earrings, bracelets and.....glasses! seriously, the monkey was wearing pink rimmed glasses.

Despite only getting around 9 hours of sleep over the last three days and being up since 4:30am, I've had a blast. I feel like I've been laughing non stop...possibly because we are so delirious from lack of sleep. I feel like I've bonded so much with the group and that everyone is really great about looking out for each other. In a few short hours we will be hopping on our flight to Cambodia. The rest of the group has been there all day and aparently had a warm welcome from the current volunteers, but the rest of us are pretty stoked we got to spend the day in Bangkok. We all even bought matching pairs of knock off Ray-Bans. After getting checked into our flight I immediately fell asleep face first on the airport linoleum floor. Also, I've already been nick-named "snack queen" because I am always snacking or on a mission for my next snack.

We'll I'm sorry this post isn't so interesting and may or may not make a lot of sense. The next time I get internet is up in the air. All I can think about is my head hitting my pillow in PP. More later. I miss everyone!