okay. wow. it's been a long 'ol time friends. i apologize.

okay. where to even begin. i think i'm still partly in phuket. on my host family day there we (sara, mix, boat, nut, and i) met up with johnny, tina, vania and callie and their host families. and we went around phuket. we went to this AMAZING temple. wow. i took like 80 pictures. and i have yet to get any of them up cause my laptop died and my converter doesn't have the third little circle thing that my laptops plug has so . . . . no pictures for awhile folks. but when they do get up there's going to probably be like 243. just an estimate.

okay so after that we went on an elephant ride. kinda cool. kinda sad though too. poor elephants. and then . . . . ummm we went out to eat at this awesome resteraunt. and ate SSOOOOOOO much food. like honestley. in this day i ate the most food i ever have in my life. wow. they just kept offering and its rude to decline so i managed to stuff sooo much into my poor now larger stomach. holy toledo.

umm and then we went to a beach and it was awesome and then we went to a market where i did something exciting but i'm going to let you all figure that out on your own. ooo laa laa eh?!

umm so then we did our travel day to namphong, thailand. it took a long time. like 10 hours-ish.

okay and at this point i'm going to apoligize for all the typing mistakes i make from this point on but this swedish keyboard is just not loving me.

namphong was soo different. i was roommates with callie from the states and we lived with sang, dang and therr daughter dream. dang was an english teacher so we were pretty lucky
cause she could speak to us alright. i taught english the first to days to students anywhere from the ages of 6 to 16. it was sooo hard. one hour lessons per classroom. the first day i was with johnny all day and then the next day i was on my own all morning and then ith vania and then andrea in the afternoon. wow. i was pulling out all the barney songs i knew - thank you karyn, maria, daniel, rachel, nick, josh and bekah. it was cool though.

our shows there were >CRAZY. but i kinda wrote of that already. but in case i did't mention the sweat - oh my bananas i've never ever sweated like that.

cool things that i did there:

.ate a cricket- they were on the tables like peanuts. not too bad
.ate half a grasshopper - cause it was about this long ----------------------------------------------------------------- and it required two bites ad i just couldn't put the pther halfin my mouth. UGH SO BAD!
.hahaha callie and i did a shot of whiskey with our host family on the second night. apparentley they drink after every plateful. hahah i was really funny.
. wrapped a hige snake around my neck. AGH. good picture of it when i get them up

other cool things:
. brodies fish, steve, that lived in his showering water
. our mini olympics and getting COVERED in mud and having a flour/water fight with andrew
. place where we ate on our host family day - afterwards talking to jeff with our feet in the water.
. the cow that ran by us on our first day with our host family. we were sitting at the table and it just ran by us. SOOO funny.
. i don't know i'm all out.

okay. so then we went to finland. I LOVE FINLAND! it was a crazy travel day. like 6 hours bus and then 10 plane. not nearly as bad as the 42 to thailand though. it was really long. but it was good. on the bus ride jeff, vero and i all slept in the back all cuddled up. nice.

and i'm going to stop there cause this computer is in sherlocks room and i think he wants to sleep. i'll try and do finland and here in sweden tomorrow. alright.

oh and i ate rice tonight for the first time since thailand and i didn't gag. haha i kinda missed it really . . . . .

okay this is an email i wrote to my brother daniel - but it wouldn't send and then facebook and hotmail stopped working for me. so i'm putting it on here. for the whole world to see. i'll write more about namphong when i get to finland and have more internet.

yeah i read the hp in two days!!! haha i couldn't put it down. i'm still in namphong, thialand - sweating my face off. quite literally. man i've never sweated so much in my entire life. on friday we had three shows - long day! but it was unreal - the first two were school shows, for students in the area and we had over 9,000 between the two shows!!!!! OH MY FREAKING GOODNESS!!! crazy eh?! the afternoon one was all the teenagers and we are rockstars here. no lie. they are in LOVE with brodie. and kei and jeff - but mostly brodie. they go absolutley nuts. like and the end when i sing we'll be there - i sing a verse by myself and then brodie comes out and sings the chorus with me, when he walked out i couldn't even hear the music or what i was singing or what i was thinking because of all the screaming. like 5,000 crazy screaming thai girls. some guys too hahaha. and after that show brodie had two of the tech guys on either side of him to help him get through the swarm of girls. they actually nearly ripped hs arm off at one point. and i'm not even exaggerating! agh! haha i was jeffs bodyguard, but we went after brodie so it was less chaotic. SOOO NUTS!!! anyways i'll write more later, thats just a little update. share this with mom please so she'll know whats going on too. its sunday now - leaving for finland on tuesday night. that'll be a long travel day/days too!!!! anyways love you all!!!! GOOD LUCK IN SCHOOL!! don't change okay?! just be the loveable crazy kid you are! don't worry about what others think about you! i don't think you will though. tell everyone i love them! God bless!!
love kady

ps. oh my vote is ceasar too. jake is too normal. or you could use . . . . umm off the top of my head romeo, elbert, sir. lancelot (lancy for short), or . . . . bestdoginthewholeworld (b.dit.w - for short hahah)
pps. i sent you guys a little suprise - just don't throw them out please - i'd like to keep them!!!!
okay . . . . . GOODBYE

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 . . . .

okay. so i need some comments. am i making this blog personal?! like are you getting what i'm feeling? or is it just what i'm doing everyday? i'm thinking maybe i need to be focusing on what i'm feeling/seeing/loving/hating etc. so what do you guys think?! that and just say hello cause i miss you all like crazy!

ok so going to try a different style. maybe. if i can. we'll see.

thailand in a couple words is (and i know i totally stole this from libby ((cast c's libby, not libby back home)) but i think its okay cause we probably have different people reading our blogs. and the words will differ to some extent)

- gosh darned hot. i've never sweated so much in my life. like i've never literally had sweat dripping down my face. hahah now i bet you all have a real pretty picture of me in your head!!!
- for those that went to dominican with me, like there but throw in some crazy buhddist (can i spell?!) temples. like the same streets with shops along the road and street vendors and people just everywhere and dogs just everywhere.
- different food! like its gotten to the point where we ask each other 'what is this?' as we put it in our mouths. like i have no idea what a lot of my meals are! some of the girls had jellyfish the other day! agh! and i tried octopus. like a little tentacle. it was rubbery.
- language. their language is SOOOOO cool. i love it. i wish i could understand. cause its completely different then ours. like the characters are so cool. and it blows my mind that people can read them. and that around the world we've all come up with a set of characters that allowed us to communicate. wow. awesome.
- just incredible. if anyone would of told me a year ago that i'd be in thailand, living with a thai family, eating crazy food, working in thai schools and performing a huge show for them with people from around the world i would have told them to shut their face. but alas here i am. awesomeaweome

ok so the highlights. cause i really don't want to catch you up of the 5/6ish days that i'm behind by.

- sunday: incredible day! we went to the sea gyspy village and talked to people there. not one person in the village died from the tsunami! unbelievable! and then we saw monkeys!!!!! have a video and will put in on facebook when i can. they take sooo long to load though! and then we took a fishing boat out to coral island. oh an awesome moment was on the dock before we got on the boat and it was concreate and had a lot of water on it and we all ran though it jumping and splashing each other till our pants were soaked through. loved it! anyways this boat ride was incredible. i just sat on the side of the boat - in awe of what i was experiencing. i was in thailand, taking a boat out to an island, surrounded by amazing friends from around the world, and all i could see was 'sea teal' (dave and i attempted to crayola name the color of the ocean, that was mine) ocean spreading out in front of me with jungle islands plopped into it. like 'lord of the flies' worthy islands. i'm suprised i didn't see piggy himself running across the beach with the conch. anyways we get to coral island and we literally run into the water. soooooo awesome. and then we went and rented snorkels, goggles and flippers. UNREAL! like there waas tropical fish. coral (hence the name of the island?! perhaps?!) and then like yellow, and blue, and white, and just amazing fish everywhere. swimming right beside us. it was incredible. and then later in the day dave told me that a couple people were walking through the jungle for a bit to get to another beach. so dave, brodie, aimee, johnny and i set off through the jungle. barefoot. in a foreign country. don't freak out mom! it was soo cool. extreme jungle on one side - extreme ocean on the other. mind blowing. like AGH OH MY GOD LIFE IS SOOOOOO AWESOME! but then we get to this point where brodie looks up and makes this ahhh/agh/scream thing. and we look up to see spider as big as my hand dangling over our heads on the path. and this is not even a lie. AS BIG AS MY HAND! true story. ugh. soo gross. but despite this dave, brodie and i decided to venture on. agh! hahaha we swat/ran under the spider - only to look up and see two more placed in the path to go. agh! this was basically what was going through my mind. AGH! haha and laughing at dave and brodie. cause they were kinda freaking out. more then i was. hahaha. but you have to understand. they were right above our heads. in a position where they could easily jump on us. and we had no idea what they could do to us. like maybe they were ninja spiders and could kill us with a single brush of their leg. anyways. this is becomming really long. i guess it just proves how stellar it was (i use awesome too much. does stellar work?!). anyways i loved the whole trek. being barefoot - feeling the dirt and rocks. seeing giant spiders. and a lizard. and a couple millipedes. and we did get to the beach and it was gorgeous and deserted. so we swam. and had a handstand contest. and it was awesome. stellar? and then we went back. again - more spiders. and me loving them cause it makes for such an awesome story. and then we went to this huge dinner thing (we had 15mins to clean all the sand off and get into dresses and look pretty. hahaha the girls room was a zooo!) where i ate sooo much. and couldn't tell you what a lot of it was. but it was GOOOOOD!!!! and then we went to fantasea - and big performance which has like 10 elephants in it. they were cute. and when it was over we boarded this 'bus'. the back of a covered truck with benches. i loved it. and we all kinda slept on each other. i had dave, alex, and shannon and leaning on me.

and ok. that took forever with a capital f. Forever. so will not be writing of the other incredible things right now. but remind me to write about
- the family tree
- fufu
- and thats all i can think of right now
- ci's

okay but just something really cool - tuesday and today i've been a little down. tired and kinda feeling blah. which is a sign of homesickness. so anyways. here i am writing this crazy long blog and during this time i got a facebook message from mom, justin, and daniel. AND talked to neal, maria, libby, and ryan on msn. i'm on like home overload. and i'm just really happy. and i'm going to go play my guitar and then go to sleep and have an awesome SHOW DAY TOMORROW! yes!!!!

ok i love you all sooooo much. i hope you know. even you out there that maybe clicked on the link to my blog from the cast's website (www.castc2007.com). cause you basically just read a novel. ok i really need to wrap this up.

so lovelovelovelovelove!!!!!

okay so we arrived at the school in phuket, thailand. the kids greeted us as we got off the bus with these really pretty lais! sooo cute. and then we had a little meeting and then we met our host families and had a big dinner all together. the food was unreal!!!! i'm taking pictures of a lot of these meals cause they are sooo cool. i'll put them on facebook soonish.

so then sara castro (new roomie) and i went to our new home. check out these names. our parents are mix and sit. then we have siblings boat (boy - 16), nut (girl - 14ish) and fufu (boy - 12). are they not the best names?!?! haha i love it! so we get to their house and there are buildings near by but i think nothing of it. i thought i'd be roughing it but they brought me and sara in the house and gave us our own rooms. with king sized beds. and air conditioning. in the living room they have a flat screen with surround sound and a hardcore massage chair/lazeboy thing. soo nuts. and they have a real shower and toilet!!!! hahaha okay but then!!! they showed us the rest of the house. which is the surrounding buildings. there's like four all together. the bedroom one. and library/study/laundry one. and kitchen/eating/office one. and then the grandfathers little house. CRAZY!!!! haha. they are soooo nice. boat just came back from a ten month exchange in the states so hes pretty darned good at english. but i have to go now cause the laptop in dying and its rafas and i don't knw where his power cord is. agh!!!!! finish later!