Football, Water Fights and Grey's Anatomy

I know what you're all thinking, another post?! Usually you barely get one once a month but with no school and all my thai friends studying in big cities and all my exchange friends living in those same cities I am a little bored. I spend most of my days playing games with my host brother, eating and watching TV. Right now I'm specifically working my way through all the seasons of Grey's Anatomy. Also so you all don't think I'm being super lazy, it is incredibly hot, so hot it takes energy just to sit outside. April is the hottest month of the year in Thailand and it is also the hottest weather I have ever felt in my entire life. On to some exciting things I have done lately, 2 weeks ago I got to travel with my host mom, brother and grandma too Buriram. Buriram is about 3 and a half hours from Kantharlak and we went there for one night. The first night me and my brother went to watch a Buriram football game. It was a good game they won 2-0. It was the first professional sports game I've attended in Thailand and thankfully I learned that the Thais can support sports pretty much the same as we do in America. The stadium was packed and there was even a Buriram Tide that I hate to saw it was even bigger and louder than the Timbers Army. Buriram's colors are dark blue and white and I'm pretty sure every fan attending the game had on a dark blue jersey which was pretty cool to see in the stands. The next day we had to get up at 6 to go to my host mom's neices wedding. It was the first Thai wedding I'd attended start to finish and I must say it was very boring. It all happened in the morning and we were on the road heading home by noon. The wedding was small and the ceremony lasted forever but in true thai fashion not everyone was paying attention most people wer talking to eachother playing with their phones or eating. There was so much food, if I remember correctly 7 or 8 courses of different very expensive, special thai foods. I got to try shark fin soup, wild mushrooms, lots of noodles and other things. After the wedding we went home because in 2 days Songkran would start :) Songkran is the Thai new year this year it took place on April 13, 14 and 15th. The Thais celebrate with a giant 3 day long water fight! It was definitely one of the highlights of my exchange year. I decided to stay in Kantharalak to expierence a small town Songkran festival with my Thai friends and family. I am really, really happy I chose to do this because it gave me a chance to see friends that I hadn't seen in months and as always I was super popular and that's always fun when people are shouting your name and running just to see you. It's hard to explain the madness that is Songkran it is really something you just have to expierence for yourself. I'm having trouble even trying to explain the basics. Basically it's just a giant water fight people set up along the main roads in town and then other people sit in the back of pick up trucks and drive around getting splashed with water and splashing people with water from buckets they've filled up and put in the trucks. In the center of town it's super insane with so many people and cars and mini concerts every few blocks and for some reason they put baby powder on your face and everyone wanted to put powder on me so my face was very white for most of the days. I still don't think I've been able to expalain Songkran accurrately, it's just one of those things you need to expierence for yourself. But needless to say it was so, so, so much fun and i was so bummed when it was over.
My year in Thailand is winding down I passed my 8 month anniversary of coming to Thailand at the beginning of April and on April 10th it marked 3 months until I will be on a plane heading home. My 17th birthday is a week from today and I'm very excited to be celebrating it Thai style with my friends and then in May I will hopefully be traveling to Bangkok with some exchange friends if all goes as planned. I am so Thankful to have had this expeirence and I am looking forward to seeing what adventures these last 3 months hold!