Up Up and Away!

As I am now in the final hours before leaving for the airport, I thought I would take the time to provide a few more precious details for you all about my trip. Tomorrow morning, our flight is set to leave at 5:55 am. From Minneapolis we'll fly to Denver, CO. After spending a few hours near the mountains, we'll fly out to Tokyo, Japan. Hopefully, I'll have a fun-filled thirteen hours of reading on my nook, watching whatever movie they play on the plane, and perhaps trying to sleep for a minute or two. After Tokyo, we are set to fly into Bangkok. I'm very excited for this plane ride, actually, for the simple fact that it is a two story plane... I didn't even know things like this existed! It's amazing how something SO BIG can fly... After our eight hour flight to Bangkok, we'll then take a short one hour flight to Udon Thani. Our professor Denny and our host moms' will be there to pick us up!

My host mom, Arunrat Bamrungchit, lives in a white house in Udon Thani. She lives there with a roommate (I was introduced to her as Aunty.. I'm not sure if she's really an aunt or simply a "close as family" friend- I'll keep you posted) and her three dogs (Nova, Mama, and Tam). I'm very very excited, and I cannot wait for my journey to finally begin!

Mark is still jokingly attempting to scare me off by showing pictures of the giant Thailand bugs, but nothing will stop me now!

Talk to you on the other side of the world!

xoxo Kenzkeg

p.s. below is a picture of "my" house for the next two months!