Christmas Eve was quite eventful. Jen, Marty and Belinda, the three tazmanian teachers that are there for 3 months, found us tickets to the AFF Thailand vs. Vietnam Soccer Cup Finals. We rented a van to take to Bangkok for the day right after school. We had great seats. About 3rd row right in view of one of the goals. We bought so much Thai paraphernalia everyone wanted pictures of us. We bought scarves, flags, wristbands, ribbons, and t-shirts. I think we posed for about 50 pictures with Thai people stopping us every 5 minutes. We had a really good time though. Thailand lost 2-1 in the last few minutes of the game. 
Christmas was not so eventful. We had to work, which sucked. But most of us refused to actually have class. I showed The Grinch my classes and we just relaxed. In the morning after my first class, Bank who works in the office told us that we had to go to the hospital for a physical for our work permit. So Catie and I sat in a hospital on Christmas for 3 hours, peeing in cups, taking X-Rays, and waiting in lines. It was a blast! But even though the hospital was pretty bad when we got back to school there was a Christmas lunch of pizza and Thai food waiting for us which was nice of the Thai staff to do for us. Definitely a memorable Christmas.
New Years Eve Catie and I headed to Bangkok to meet up with Heather, Brittany, Sara and Mary. We stayed in a nice hotel and went to Center World Plaza for the countdown. I think underestimated how packed it was actually going to be in Bangkok when we headed downtown. It was so packed and crowded we started getting frustrated. There were a few areas closed of for people with wristbands. Each area was sponsored by a different Thai beer. One area, the Chang beer area, was the only one with no wristbands so we figured we'd go for it. We hoped over the fence with some Chang beer cans and walked casually into the area. There was a stage with a band playing in each area, tables, chairs, sections with couches and steps. We found a waitress who seemed to like us and led us to an empty table! By 11:30 we had beers, a table and an awesome view for the fireworks. It seemed to work out pretty nicely! Right after the countdown, a group of people left the couch area and we grabbed that and stayed all night partying with the Thai people next to us. Not a bad New Years Eve!
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