Thailandevntures! Hongs...

Hey blogistas! So as many of you probably guessed, Rana and I went to Thailand this past summer!!!!! Say what???! It was honestly the best thing ever, and so so much fun. In this post though, I thought I would talk a little bit about our hong. For those of you who are not close with Thai culture, a hong is basically the Thai word for room. While on the trip, we stayed at this gorgeous base house called Ricefields. Seriously, it was unbelievably beautiful, like a resort almost. I was personally not expecting it to be that nice, so if you are going on a Rustic Pathways trip that stays at the Ricefields base, you are one lucky duck!!! Anyway, when we got to the base, we were assigned rooms. Here's a picture of the cute little name tags that our hong-leaders( I'll get to them in a second) put on our door!

 Our hong mates for the first part of the trip were named Lauren and Wallen! We shared a lot of memories in this hong...starting with the need for wifi. When you are in a foreign country, it's an obvious fact that you want to post cool instagrams. Well in our room, we started out having amazing wifi...then tragedy struck...they shut it off! EXCEPT we found a small glimmer of hope on one of the beds in our, we could access wifi from it. This bed was later referred to as the bitch bed, because we all joked that when our new roommates came we would send the bitchiest to sleep over there. We never did, because obviously that would've been terribly blunt and rude.

 These few pictures where we look like hot messes, were taken after this thing called Thai games. Basically like a "everyone is on a color team and does challenging activities" type of situation. Yes friends, that is dried yogurt on my shirt. EWWW. I remember when we took this photo, we set my camera on a timer on the fridge. It ended up capturing more of the beds than us, but it's still pretty cute.

This one on the left was the first attempt at a group selfie, what a joy! I also mentioned that I would talk about hong leaders, they are kind of like your camp counselors except for your hong. They were there to make sure you felt ok during the trip and ya know did stuff that adults do, like helped you fill out paperwork or with money. But mostly, they were super fun twenty year olds who shared cool stories and just chilled with us!! Being in a hong was like being in a sorority, a bunch of girls doing charity work in the day and then having workout parties and stuff at night. :)

This is me and Lauren on the right, I've tried to put a pic of me with every person of my hong. I called her Lolo as a nickname.

 Don't even get me started on Rana...







This one on the bottom left is me with ma sassiest roommate Wallen, don't we look so evil/adorable with our ice creams!!!! You can call her by her street nickname WaWa