At the close

This will most likely be my last post from Thailand. In 12 hours I am leaving the town I have called home for my past year in Thailand. It is a very odd feeling. It just doesn't seem real, to be honest. But it is happening. I took my last look around town today. I ate at my favorite soup shop, which has soup that still makes me feel better no matter what. I got fresh pineapple and cantaloupe from the fruit stand and ate it with a stick. I drank lots of tea and ate at a restaurant I kept passing on my way to do other things, remembering that I wanted to eat there but always forgot about the place when it came time to eat food. 

Tomorrow morning, my school is taking me to Chiang Mai. The school driver will drive me in the school truck all the way there. Because Thai schools are awesome like that. I will be leaving early in the morning and then go to an optical illusion art museum, shopping and possibly a massage. I have to do some fun things before I go sit on my bum for 24 hrs while I travel back to America.

Today I said most of my final goodbyes and my apartment is packed up. I walked home late and said my last goodbyes to this town and the University that I live in. And yet, all of this still feels like it is not real. Like someone is going to jump out and yell "Gotcha!" just to find out it is a joke.

My plan is to do most of my processing and write a letter to next year's teachers posted in Uttaradit while on the plane. I figure it gives me something to do so every time I have caught myself thinking those thoughts I have pushed them away, going "Not now! Later!" So yeah. I really don't think I'll be online after I leave tomorrow early morning until I get to America. Don't worry, I gots street smarts. Sort of. Not really, but kind of. Okay, okay, enough to get by. I'll make there, no worries. Though I have this deep feeling I'm going to be quite grumpy when I arrive, but here's to hoping I'm wrong.

Okay, well now I am going to sleep and then head to the airport. The same airport that brought me here. I am ending at the close and that, my friends, feels very good indeed.