Time is flying by right now and it feels like things are happening just one thing after another. On the 6^th of August my school was invited to attend a show on Thai history and Thai traditions and my class asked me if I wanted to go with them. Normally going to see this show would be very very expensive and foreigners love going to see that show because it is so amazing and holds a world record for the highest stage in the world and the sow with the 2^nd most set changes so clearly I said I wanted to go. Now you guys know I have complained about Thai time many times before but that day Thai time saved me! The morning that we were supposed to go to the show we had an issue at home and I was 20 min late for the bus and I was so sure I had missed the bus and I wouldn’t be able to go but hey when we got to the bus 20 min late the bus was still there, one time that I was grateful for Thai time. So we got onto the bus and made our way to Bangkok, let me just say that you have not seen Thailand if you have not been on a bus full of teenage Thai girls. They played Thai music and every single girl sang and danced along on the bus because hey who listens to road rules?  I laughed so much on that bus I think I started to get a six pack. Thai girls are so innocent and young it just feels like they don’t have care in the world and that is such a nice change in attitude I love it so much. When we got to the place where the show is we got to walk through a replica of a traditional Thai village and we got to try and farm rice and see the different types of traditional houses and see the way people make their living in different parts of the country and I thought it was really nice. Its so different to go to all of those places and seeing it all and then going to all of those places right next to each other and seeing the differences right next to each other you learn so much from it. We all got lunch from our school so I thought it was quite fun that we filled up the whole dining hall but we brought our own food. We went into the hall for the show and we were with 3 other schools in a 2000 seat hall. We were a bit early for the show so they put on a questionnaire on the screen and I have never seen high school students get so happy over a questionnaire before. Once again just the complete change in attitude you only get to see if you go to school in Thailand, the whole time I was thinking that if they showed that questionnaire to my school nobody would even pay attention to it but here they were like jumping up and down when they get one of the questions right. I wish I could bottle some of this childish optimism they have in abundance here and take some of it back with me and go and sprinkle it over my school. The show was more than amazing, not even the show the stage is enough to make it worthwhile! One second there is rain the next there isn’t, then there is a river then there isn’t, then we are in the forest then we are in the ocean then there are people flying over the sage then people are hanging by their feet from the roof. The show started by showing us the way people lived there lives a 100 years ago in different parts of Thailand and how trade was established between Thailand and China and how the King made the country better and how much everybody loves the King. The second act was about the different Buddhist traditions and how people celebrate them then and now with a short story behind each tradition. The last part of the show was about the different parts of Buddhist afterlife. The last part upset me a little bit, I’ not exactly sure why it just felt so strange to see what they believe afterlife is like, it’s the complete opposite of what I have always been taught the afterlife is and yes I have heard it so many times here in Thailand but actually seeing it and seeing how my friends around me reacted to it all hit close to home and it upset me a little bit but I just took a deep breath remembered my orientation before I came to Thailand and said the magic words “it’s not better it’s not worse it’s just different”  I am pretty sure I sat through that whole show with my mouth hanging wide open. That show was so much more than I ever could of imagined and I am so happy that I had the opportunity to go with my school because I don’t think I would have had another opportunity to go. It’s really amazing all the opportunities that come on your path that you could of missed so easily.