Sawadee Kah!

Boy, I sure hope you pronounced that correctly. You don't even want to know what you just said otherwise.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know, "sawadee kah" means "howdy" in Thai. Although if you're a guy, you should say "sawadee khrup." I'm sure there is an explanation for this, and I'm equally sure that I don't care what it is. The Thai phrasebook might shed some light on the matter, if I wasn't too lazy to flip through it and look. As it is, I guess the answer will remain a mystery.

ANYWAY. I am back from Thailand, after successfully not updating my blog during the entire time I was away. I believe I have officially elevated not-updating-my-blog to an art form. However, I did think about updating my blog while I was gone, so hopefully that counts for something.

The trip was pretty amazing. Frankly, I don't even know where to start in talking about all the things I did and saw. Some of it was upsetting and sad. Some of it was fun. All of it was thought-provoking and educational... to say the least.

I think the best way to go about telling the story may be to do a day-by-day recap.* So check back Wednesday for Day 1. Hopefully I'll have my thoughts in some semblance of an order by then. In the meantime, thanks for your patience! Kahp kuhn kah!!

*Thanks to Abbie for the narrative-method suggestion. Unless it turns out to be lame. In which case, you now know who to blame.**

**Or is it whom? I always get those two mixed up...