Idiotic, Intense, and Ironic

First off the visa run went fairly smoothly, it took from about 6:30a.m.-8:30p.m. but that's the price you pay I guess. We went out to Cambodia on a nice bus watched some movies, listened to music, and wrote in my book. As I was crossing the border (you don't have to do this but I figured if I made it this far I want to cross). Not a whole lot on that border town except it seemed like the Cambodians were a lot smaller then the Thais. Coming back across the border kids kept asking for Baht "1 Baht, 2 Baht" and didn't think a whole lot about it. Well, a kid behind me gave them a Baht and the child jumped off the bridge!! We are talking about an easy 40 foot fall down into the brownest water I've ever seen in my life. But apparently instead of just begging these kids jump off bridges for their money. This may sound insensitive but I actually think that you do what you have to do to survive and these kids have found a niche...
That night I was dead tired and walking back to the apartment and Matt and Brooke were walking out. They said they were going to have a few beers with his classmates so very reluctantly I went with them :)
We went to a place they normally go where you sit on the floor, not easy for me! I talked to a person working in Burma (not Burmese) and strangely enough actually got recruited to go work in Burma as well. At least that's what it sounded like...in reality he is part of the pro-democracy group that is there. They print fliers, teach classes, and spread as much awarness as they can about Human Rights. It was very interesting and a little more cladestine then I'm used to. (Don't worry mom I'm not going over there anytime soon). After a few "towers" of beers we decided to check out this new joint that is called Vintage. We walk in, and they offered us front row seats, well none of us knew what that meant because we thought it was just a bar. Low and behold a metal rock band comes out and starts jamming away. As much as I tried I couldn't help it and 3 songs into their set I yelled "Play some Journey Man". Yes, I'm sorry to all of you for that! I made friends with the lead singer and he said as long as we (about 8 of us) keep coming back they will learn an english song for us. Matt and I will undoubtedly get up there and rock out with them. You haven't been to a concert until you've sat front row at a Thai metal concert, drinking 100 Pipers and water.
Now for the real interesting part. I'm sitting here typing this blog at a computer lab in one of the most prestegious high school's in Southeast Asia. Don't believe me? Tomorrow, the Prime Minister of Thailand is visiting this school! So, how did I end up here? The girls from Loyola that I met in Koh Samed work here and told me to come visit and sit in on some of their classes since I'm so into working with kids. Granted, these kids get dropped off my limos and some of them actually own their own resorts (another story for another time). As I get to this school after 5 hours of sleep, hungover, and a long long walk after the bus dropped me off at the wrong place I met with the head teacher. Little did I know that I was interviewing for a job today. Luckily I had worn my suit, without the jacket. I talked to her, then filled out an application and sat in front of their board members trying to fill up 30 minutes for the only question they asked "tell us about yourself". After this they took me up to a very cute teacher and introduced me. I was then informed that I needed to teach a class of 60 Thai boys about Standard Deviation...and yes, the class starts in 30 minutes. That's right...MATH! I assume if you are reading this you know that Math is Adam's thing NOT MINE!! Math is easily my worst subject and they wanted me to teach this to 10th graders. Not even little kids!! And to top it off I had 30 minutes to put a lesson plan together on something I'm sure I cheated on throughout high school. Let me tell you something...I A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y BOMBED IT!!! They all stood up and in unision said hi to me, welcomed me, and kept standing and starring at me. Again me being the idiot I am didn't realize they were doing this to me and I thought they were doing it to the other 6 teachers in the room that were evaluating me. So I stood there like an idiot for about 10 seconds and managed to mutter p.p.please sit down? More of a question then a command. After the beginning jitters I started to get going and talked about myself and my background as much as possible so I didn't have to talk about Math. Now all of this is after three of the Math teachers told me I was cute and asked me out to lunch. Don't get me wrong I"m not bragging it's just that I kind of had a lot on my plate at the time and that just made me even more flustered!! I eventually got through it all and ended nervously but proud that I finished. I thought if nothing else the folks back home won't believe that I taught a Math class.
I'm going out with all of these teachers for the 4th of July...I hope all of you are having a great time and a great 4th! Drink one for me!

Here's to you,
Nebraska