Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Well today I'm sick again! I'm still not feeling well so this will be short. I just wanted to write while yesterday was still fresh in my mind. So I when I got to school my class was surprised because Film came to school again. His flight to Bangkok wasn't until the afternoon and he needed to finish up some testing and wanted to say goodbye. Around lunch time my classmates started to talk and then I finally said okay what's going on. They wanted to go to the airport to give Film a real send off. Then we got approval from the teachers the only thing was we needed a way to get some 30 students to the airport. At first we thought we had a bus that would take us and then we only had one van which meant about half the people could go. So well I heard that and I thought my host father is deputy governor for nothing. I called P Somchai and asked if there was anything that could work. Well we got another van. So 2 packed vans and another car headed off to the airport. They gave him a photo album and all said their goodbyes. They sang again and it was amazing. Then I talked to him and gave him the little I've learned already and said goodbye and good luck. I think the hardest thing for me was when he made his final wave. He had to got through with his mom and it reminded me suddenly of what that was like for me. To take that last look at your family and know that you have no real idea of what your getting into. Ahh well I have to go try to eat.
