quote of the day : "mee plah yai for a sewer"

sooo.
I went to areobics yesterday. Thai style is CRAZYYY . I'm used to my nice even steady step and pump, this has like super fast music and tiny insignificant twirls and stuff. they expect women to be all like graceful and beautiful over here- well family and friends, you should've seen the giant white me among the 40 tiny little quick moving thai girls. UGHHH ahhahahahahahahahaha omg. It's hilarious to be the giant foreigner. I wish I had a video of myself doing it for you to see.

I also got burnt yesterday really badly on a motorbike- the hot exhuast thing. I have a big fleshy white/almost reddy purple circle on my leg (as if the insect bites, leech stains, scratches and dry skin weren't ugly enough) LOLOLOL omg I'm a mess!!!! don't worry though, all of our neighbors are obsessed with adopting us and taking care of us. They drive us places and we have one neighbor (who has previously been referred to as "crazy neighbor". .. ) and she has really grown on us. She's the lady with the autistic child next door? her husband left her and gives her a monthly allowance for thw two of them to live on and basically is stuck at home all the time... she really likes to get into our business. at first we were annoyed- but the other day reffa and I were napping on our front deck wrapped in our pure thai silk blankets and giving each other thai massages and she came over and taught us how to do it better and then took a nap on our deck with us. she's just tired, lonely and needs some friends so now we like her very much and are completely willing to tolerate her nosiness.... she needs us. everything happens for a reason right? why did we end up being her neighbor?

our other neighbors gave me all kinds of coconut/aloe vera extracts to put on my burn and it's acutally heeling rather quickly considering i'm in thailand (not even my mosquito bites heal here)

also, reffa isn't sure if she has 1 job or 3. we'll keep you posted. that lady that we were really excited about hired someone else less suited for the job just because reffa didnt' blow off her current job the DAY she asked her to. (she asked her the day of to be there in like an hour and ref said she had to teach and this rich lady got mad and wouldn't give her another chance.... ) anyways. we'll see. we'll keep you posted.

okay tah tah for now! ps. miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!