Thailand

It's amazing how much you can feel in a matter of 24 hours. I actually wound up having a really fun last week in Hong Kong, and getting to do almost everything that I wanted. I met two super fun dudes on the ferry to lamma one day, who wound up accompanying me to do the Sharp Peak hike I had been trying to get to since, like, week 2. But, as per ususaly, it was well worth the wait, and it was nice to spend my last weekend away from the city.

The day I left for Thailand was an absolute mess. I arrived home in the morning from a sweet, but relatively sleepless night, in a pagoda that overlooks the South China Sea on one of the Lamma coasts. I came home to Emma and Elle throwing clothes everywhere. Another one of our co-workers arrived in at like 5 in the morning and was trying to sleep on the couch. When he realized that wasn't working, he instead got up and began to shout things at Emma and Elle when they were asking questions of each other regarding what to take with them. It turned into a joke show. For many reasons, I was laughing my ass off. And that was good. But the actual packing, after two nights on low sleep, was ridonkulous. I managed to get away with a 40 L bag that was only abot 2/3 full, so at least that was sweet.

So far I have been dealing with some crazy feelings coming up while having been here. Emma is so keen to beach it all the time, and Elle has been like a madwoman leading climbs. I have been having a little bit of a hard time with the fact that I feel like I wasted a bunch of time doing the 16 hour train ride up and back, for a day and a half of climbing. But... I think that's part of the bigger picture that I can't expect myself to melt into all the nuances of a new country, and then be gone, in less than a week. I *almost* wish I had stayed in Hong Kong and gone to the monestary I found... but I know when I can get home and actually process through whatever is going on inside my head that's giving me such squirrels in my belly... then I will be happy for having been. And will be keen to go back.

Until then, I leave tomorrow from this beautiful beachy, climbing paradise. I am: ________ (fill in the blank with any emotion and chances are you'll be right.) Tell ya what though, I'm NOT looking foward to snow on the ground in New York. So thankfully I will keep my head right here on this warm beach, until I ab-so-LOOT-ley have to. :)