That’s from a Vanessa Carlton song if any of you were wondering.  I’ve thought many times in the past week “oh- I should write about today!” and then completely forgotten what I did that was so special, let alone the whole day.  So today, I’m just going to write while I have a moment before lunch and try to jog my memory.  Later I’ll be posting about yesterday when I went to the park with friends, but right now I’m too tired to do it any justice.

So this morning I had to get up early (5:00) because I needed to be at school early in order to read a speech about… shoot what was it called again?  Sur- something economy.  Oh!  Found it- it’s “sufficiency economy”.  I didn’t have much of an idea of what this was even after looking over the script, but my host dad explained it to me in the car.  Apparently it the idea of an economy where each person grows what they eat, and distributes what they have in a pyramid shape.  Firstly, whatever they make/harvest etc.  goes to them and their family.  If they have surplus, then that goes to their neighbors.  If there is surplus even then it goes to the community, and so on and so forth in an ever expanding bubble.  My conclusion from this, and the speech’s talk of not buying into excess, is that it is proposing that the people keep Thailand’s resources in Thailand, use Thailand’s resources for Thai’s, and distribute goods and money more throughout Thailand.  I have no way of knowing whether or not that is accurate, but it seems like a good guess to me.  This system was developed by the king, and I think that the speech thing I did today is a way of promoting it maybe?  It turns out I wasn’t actually saying it during the morning assembly, but about 30 minutes before the assembly, as students walked to their classes.  Anywho, back to what I was saying before.  I was supposed to get up at 5:00.  I did, and then I promptly fell back asleep.  So I wake up at 5:45, and think: didn’t I already do this?  Maybe I’m just remembering yesterday.  And then I remember and check my phone for the time.  Now last night my host dad said we should leave at six, or maybe 6:15.  6:15 it is!  I didn’t have my school stuff together and had planned to do that this morning you see.  Luckily for me I actually do very little on Mondays.  I still managed to misplace the bag I was embroidering though.  I had to bring my apron to sewing class instead and work on it, which was handy because I needed to use said apron in third block.  I also misplaced my hairbrush after I picked it up.  Turns out I put it in my book bag.  What the heck??  My hair stays in braids all day and there is literally no reason why I would have put it in there.  Good job sleepy Aria.  Anyways I didn’t have it with me for when Bee would do my hair so I did my best with a comb :X .  I found out when I got in the car that she had been sleeping until my host dad called for her.  Sorry Bee!!!  From there we drove to school, traffic bad as per usual [fun fact: Bangkok has the worst traffic in the world.  Actually.] I got to school, realised I had no idea where I was supposed to go, saw my friend waving to me from the office and revised then said our speech into the microphone at the office.

That’s not a run-on sentence it’s a list.  Sh.

First period was sewing, and I worked frantically on attaching my elephant to my apron, and continued that during break with my homeroom class.  Then it was dance class time.  I have two dance classes during the week, one Thai dance and the other… I don’t know.  It seemed a lot like the dance unit during gym at my junior high.  The class was separated into groups of about 7, and then told to make a “modern” dance routine for this Thai song about nature.  It was just as bad as in Canada.  Our group did not communicate well, language barrier aside, and the dance moves were choppy, very repetitive, and only used our arms.  That is to say, none of the moves save kneeling, standing up, and making timid kicks off beat and out of sync for about 12 bars at the beginning and middle of the song.  During our break just before this class there had been 5 students screaming at each other in good-natured conversation and another 15-20 just shouting.  Break is 20 minutes long, not including the designated “homework” break right before, which had been basically the same thing so I was irritable and noise sensitive and actually felt ill from all the noise.  I did not have patience for trying to make out whispered English from the din of shouted Thai, and did not try very hard to do so.  My apologies to those of you who were trying to talk to me during that period of time for not reaching out and trying to communicate.  After that I had break, where I came up to the nice, quite, air conditioned library to start this post.  After that I had lunch and ice cream with a really fun group of people who remind me a lot of my friends back at home, and came back up here to finish this.  Gosh do they ever make me work for my free time though.  There are 7 stories in my school, with the gym my class uses and my music class being on the 7th floor, the library I am to go to during my free time being on the 6th floor, and the cafeteria being on the ground floor.  My home room is on the 2nd floor.  Today I have climbed 51 flights of stairs I believe, as there are two flights between each level.  I have at least another 5 to go for the day, since the teacher I go home with takes the elevator down after school.  After school I need to go find my embroidery, play with the dogs, and maybe clean my room since this mornings furious scramble revealed that I’m not nearly as organised as I thought.