Bringing things up to speed

I apparently don't feel that my life is all that interesting when I am stateside. That's my story to explain the lack of entries over the past year and I am sticking to it. But I'd like for y'all to be there with me when I head across a new ocean. Since I suck at keeping in touch in normal ways, I figured I'd bring this bad boy back. So please don't be upset if I don't email you back, manage to ignore a facebook message, or have let too much time pass between phone calls. Just know that I will do my best to send out real letters, to invite you into my home (wherever it is), or try to keep you around via words on the internet.

That being said, it has been a while. I'm not going to make any excuses, but I will just say that in the past few months I've done my fair share of things. Graduated, for starters. Moved out of Hendrix lodging for the last time. Moved back home for what is, hopefully, also the last time. Before that, the entries that fell into a black hole, I did a European capitals tour-- Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Ljubljana, Rome and then back to France and then out of France. Arkansas held me captive for the follwing year and, finally, as of now, I am a graduate of Hendrix College, with all the bells and whistles, hold your applause, please. And I am on my way to Thailand! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Thailand. Let us pause in order to celebrate the fact that I know what I will be doing next year… and that it is over an ocean. !!! I will be spending my next year at Det Udom Technical College (Dtec) as a conversation teacher in the middle of nowhere, Thailand. If anyone knows of any nifty people I should get in contact with, send them my way!

My summer has consisted thus for of learning Thai (44 consonants alone), immunizations (Japanese Encephalitis, yuck!), study for the GRE (no comment), tearing up linoleum floors, French tables scattered around Lafayette. I was lucky enough to attend the Congrès Mondial Acadien, World Acadian Congress, to support Louisiana's presence there. It's a cool event, you should look it up. And in a bit, I'm sure I'll elaborate, photos and all.