Dear Readers,
This will be my last post on my "Rotary Youth Exchange" blog.
I have decided to open up a new blog called, "
American in Thailand"
You can find this link at:
http://american-in-thailand.blogspot.com/Thank you for reading this life-changing experience I had, and hopefully you will follow me on my next!
-Ben Mau
I thought that after a year on exchange I wouldn't be the least bit surprised when I received my 2nd country selection call. The first time it wasn't so bad... I mean I wanted to go to France, but they just put me in the country right next to it... no biggy.
This time I KNEW in my mind that I would be going to South America. I had absolutely NO DOUBT. Everyone I knew who wanted to go to a South American country got it like THAT... When they called and announced that I was going to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTINENT THAN SOUTH AMERICA... ASIA... I WAS FLORED! South america is completely foreign to me... but ASIA... ASIA is a DIFFERENT planet.
This is SO exciting... I was worried that next year would be just a nice fun year.. but after hearing that I'm going to THAILAND... and I know that it will be quite an eye-opening experience. I can't begin to imagine all that I will absorb while I am living there. All of the the culture, and art, and food, and tradition, and religion, and way of LIFE! This is such an enormous challenge and I am more than happy to accept.
I know that this kind of challenge is what I want my future to be like. I want to be in constant motion, traveling and experiencing from one place to the next. I want to push myself to my limit, break down cultural barriers, observe humanity through completely new perspectives, and adapt to anything on the surface of this Earth! I'm ready for a new life!
I AM GOING TO THAILAND!
THIS WAS TOTALLY OUT OF THE BLUE. I TOTALLY THOUGHT I WOULD BE GOING TO SOUTH AMERICA... OMG! I AM REALLLLLLY EXCITED!!! THIS IS GOING TO BE AN INSANNNNNE YEAR! HAHA... I CAN'T BELIEVE I AM GOING TO... THAILAND... I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS COUNTRY! WOOOOOW!
