Holidays in Bangkok

Something that I will miss a ton is being home on the holidays. Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Dragon Day, and Easter are some of my favorite days of the year, and to me, holidays mean spending time with the people that you are closest with. Some of my favorite times in recent memory have been holidays.... But that is what builds character I guess, adapting and having to do things, you might not always want to do.

Being in Bangkok is sort of odd for the holidays, things just have a different feel here. (Not to mention that it is hot as a Georgia summer for all of them) But everything is a little off...people for Halloween just kind of miss the point a little bit, I don't know but it is hard to describe. We'll just have to see how Thanksgiving dinner goes tomorrow night.... if there isn't good stuffing I'll be furious.

But I haven't been homesick at all in my time here, aside from missing the occasional chicken parm, and pb&j, I have been loving the moment and really trying to do things as someone here would do. But I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I am beginning to really start to miss home. But heck, I have already gone 6 months, so another 6 shouldn't be so bad, especially because 3 of them are paid vacation months....


PS. I love american for certain things and hate them for certain things. But honestly, nothing really gets me more upset than how stoked people get for Black Friday. It is the epitome of greedy capitalistic culture where people buy things, not because they need them, just because they are "on sale"

As Peter Griffin would say, "That really grinds my gears...."