What has happened since my last post?  I traveled to Kohn Kaen with all the exchange students, including past, future and current exchangers to help teach the future students about what they will be experiencing in the next year. It was also the last chance for the inbounds to all spend time together. Honestly there was not much for us inbounds to help with during the weekend so we had a lot of free time to hang out with our best friends one last time. Me and my friends found some bikes and biked around little thai towns in the middle of nowhere. It was so much fun and is probably one of my favorite memories from my year in Thailand. On the last day of our Rotary weekend the inbounds were given our exchange certificates and were graduated from the rotary youth exchange program in district 3340. It was very emotional for all of us to say goodbye and it was a very loud wake up call that my year in Thailand, that back in September seemed would never end, is ending in 2 short months. I will go leave Thailand on July 10th and arrive in Portland on July 11th. After saying goodbye to everyone we all went back to our seperate cities. The next week I went to Bangkok with my host family. I'd only ever been to bangkok one other time and unfortuantely I got food poisoning on that trip. My host family took me to see all the sights of bangkok the grand palace, Emerald temple, the giant shopping malls, the otop center and tons of other things. Bangkok is a very cool city and I only wish I could have spent more time exploring it. We came home Sunday night and then had one day to get organized before the new semester of school started. I was excited to be going back to school, mostly because I was pretty bored with my host families house and was ready to see all my Thai friends again. School was fine the first couple days but since my class is now in M.6 (seniors) they are studying all the time and school has become very serious for them also since it is still the hot season it is unbearably hot. My second week of school I ended up going to Ubon on tuesday and Wednesday to say goodbye to 2 of my best rotary friends who I won't be able to see again before we all go home. This was the first goodbye I had to say to close friends but it really didn't feel like goodbye and so it's hard to wrap my mind around the fact that I won't be seeing them again for most likely a couple years. There isn't anything else exciting that has happened lately. A new mall opened up in Ubon and it has starbucks and Mcdonalds which has been pretty fun for us exchange students. As my time in Thailand is slowly starting to come to an end I just want to say that this has been an amazing experience and it still all feels like a dream. And it all went by way too fast it feels like just yesterday I was stepping off the plane into the humid, smothering Bangkok air and now I'm looking forward to getting on the plane and returning to Oregon. I have truly loved my time here in Thailand and I will never forget this year. I have become an entirely new person and I am so ready to see how my life in Tigard will be different after the experiences I've had here, I am ready to come home!