up with kady

okay so last week (mon, tues, wednes, thurs) i did CI at various places. and it was awesome but i'm going to skip it cause this is way more exciting.

okay so sarah comes into my room at around 7 on friday morning and tells me the marguex from the advance team (people that go to the city weeks before to set it up - host families, sponcers etc) just called her and asked her to come to a tv interview that they were doing cause some of the girls that were going called in sick. and she had to be there at 7:45. agh!! so we got ready really fast and then drove to the school. i went along cause i figured i'd just get dropped off at the univeristy - where i was supposed to be at 8:15. but as we dropped sara off i thought i'd ask if anyone there was going to the univeristy to save my host mom from driving me. so i got out and asked and they said 'ummm no you're coming with us. you're singing one to one."

aghaghaghaghaghaghagh!!!

so brenna (staff who sang one to one the past two years) was supposed to sing it but she was one of the ones who called in sick. so i ran up to th bathroom and changed into my show costume (which i had cause we were doing a show that night - thank God) and threw on some makeup while we were driving to the station. they set me up with one of those little clip-to-your-shirt-mics and then we were off. luis (advance team) and martin (cast manager) did a little interview and then myself along with sara, tina, vania, faith, dave, justen, kei, jalee, callie, libby, and maria (hope i got everyone!) sang one to one.

now it was this tiny little tv station so although it was really really exciting - it really wasn't big of a deal. like still super cool but its probably the compass of phuket. or breakfast television. something like that.

but then yesterday they told us that it made national news.

oh my friggin goodness.

hahahaha sooo cool. thats all i can say. i love it. haha its online too. www.thaisnews.com. you may have to google the site instead of typing it in cause its in thai or something but yeah. the quality isn't great and i've sang it better but still really really cool. hahahhaa love it!

and then we did three shows. we were told that thai audiences didn't show a lot of emotion - like the didn't cheer a lot or anything. but they were wrong about this audience!!! hahaha most of the audience was made up of 11-15year old girls. and they are a little but in love with our boys. especially brodie. hahaha its SOOOOOO funny. like they scream for them! hahhah i love it. and after the shows they go backstage and get autographs and take pictures with them! hahaha cute! and the guys LOVE it. brodie and jeff really play it up. oh what rockstars they are . . . . hahah

ok but here's the really really awesome thing. like the coolest thing thats happened here. all the procedes from the show went towards building a seven story building for the satree phuket school, which was the sschool we were at everyday. and because on satruday we had a VIP show - which sooo many important people like the thai minister of education and alll kinds of media we raised a lot of money. like A LOT! are you ready for this?!?!?!

over 10,000,000 baht. ten million

thats about $320,000 canadian dollars!

wow oh wow oh wow.

we kinda flipped out when theytold us that one.

so awesome. i love it. it makes me so happy.

today's a free day and i don't know what we're going to do. and then tomorrow we're flying to bangkok and then another 12 hour bus ride to get to nam phong. where i doubt there will be any internet cause its a tiny little village i think. so the next time you hear from me i may be in finland. yeah. hopefully i have some awesome stories from nam phong for you. apparently we'll be sleeping on mats and have lots of bugs around us. YES! and the town is also known as 'the cobra village'. oh my!!!! hahaha maybe i'll learn to charm snakes.

anyways . . . i think some of you are starting school soonish! so good luck! have fun! especially justin whos starting grade 12, karyn whos starting high school, daniel whos starting grade 7 and public school for the first time, steve whos starting upei, and joshua in grade one?!?! perhaps?! anyways love you all!!! soooo much!!!! miss you!

lveo kady

yeah not love - lveo. wow good thing i can type . . . .