Post Laramie, Art in Paradise and When is Thanksgiving

              So now that I've been done with the Laramie Project for over a month, I've been finding other ways to keep busy. I am currently in two choirs. One that is weekly and we sing songs mostly from Balkan countries but some from other places like Africa. It's a fun group of people. The other choir is through my English church. It is a Christmas Choir and will have our last performance on Christmas eve or the weekend before. Still being decided. My elementary drama club is gearing up to have a performance in a couple of weeks. They are a very active group so it's good that they have somewhere to channel their energy. The group is currently composed of 3rd and 4th graders.
               For the month of November I decided to take on a writing challenge. It's part of National Novel Writing Month. Basically I need to write at least 50,000 words  in one month. At first I wasn't sure I wanted to take the challenge as it took me a year to write 57,000 words for one of my books. But I came up with a topic that I was excited about and so I signed up 2 days before the month started. I finished my 50,000 word minimum in 3 weeks. Once I got within 10,000 words of the goal, I started increasing my daily word count. I had started with 2,000 words a day and sometimes I would write more to make up for days when I didn't have as much time to write. I completely changed the way I approach writing as a result. I'm currently at 52,000 words and still going as my story needs an ending. I expect to finish soon though but hoping to write daily until then. But I haven't been pushing myself to do 2,000 words though. I found it difficult to make time for people and other things when I was doing that goal so now I'm giving myself a lighter goal.
This weekend I went to this amazing 3D illusion museum. Normally I don't goto museums as I get bored easily. I usually need something more stimulating. This 3D museum which I had seen pictures of and heard about has many opportunities for people to actually be a part of the picture. It's important to take at least one friend when going so you can take pictures of each other. It just so happened that the friend I went with likes to photograph things and has a really nice camera. So we got some nice shots.

Don't eat me

took up surfing

I'll take some

one of my favorites

Pulling teeth

Helping tie a shoe

I've learned to hang out on walls

one of my scarier excursions

checking out Tut's tomb

sharing a drink

who needs cars?

just a little adventure

Didn't see that one coming

the bridge was a little rickety

I became an artist

so I didn't get the memo on how to dress

Finally I'm tall

I'm louder

Another favorite

This was fun

The meerkats let me join them

     So I realized that I am truly in Thailand when I don't even know when Thanksgiving is. My school didn't even do a half day for it this year so I have to work all day and who knows after that as I have no plans. But literally I was searching the internet trying to find the actual day of Thanksgiving. That's how out of the loop I've been.