Happy early Fourth of July for all of the Americans!
I am currently at the resort that I teach at – and tonight I got to make dinner! Last week we were talking about falang ( foreigner) food, and I said I would cook spaghetti and chicken if the staff thought they would eat it. So today I got to go to the market, buy a whole bunch of fresh veggies, some chicken, and spices (they already had a pack of pasta for me to cook!) and head to the kitchen! It has been forever since I have cooked a meal! It was so much fun! And I was even able to make my own spaghetti sauce that I thought tasted surprisingly good. The staff didn’t think the dish was spicy enough (I am not shocked, most Thai people love spicy food), so sprinkled a lot of chili on top of the garlic bread and sauce, but otherwise I think it went over well.
I am going to be super busy the next few days! Tonight is a good-bye party for Alena, one of the other Track of the Tiger interns. We are having dinner at Just Khao Soy – the restaurant that Track of the Tiger owns. Friday I am going up to Pang Soong Lodge for the “Curious Gibbon” Program, which is a six trek around the lodge on Friday, and then a trek to the Flight of the Gibbon on Saturday. Flight of the Gibbon is a ropes course and zip line in the jungle and is supposed to be really cool – so I am excited to get a chance to do that! I am staying at the Lodge from Saturday until Thursday to help with a group of American students that are coming, as well as two men that are coming to study the biodiversity in the area around the lodge.
I will be going back to Chiang Mai on Thursday morning, and flying to Bangkok Thursday night to go meet two of my friends. I will be there until Sunday night. Other than the craziness that I am sure Emily, Kacey, and I will get ourselves into, we are also planning to visit the palace and a lot of the temples in the area around our guest house.

Once I get back, it will be the 12th of July! I cannot believe time has gone so quickly! I will only have about two weeks left in Chiang Mai!