I heart March

I'm going to Thailand!

At least, I may be going if I can make enough dinero to pay for it. My friend Tia (I have friends!) is going for the month of June and she invited me to come with her. She found plane tickets for $650 roundtrip. That's less than a month's rent here in Maui! Lots of details to work out but I can't pass this one up.

It's March madness! I've already been invited to three birthday soirees, not including my own. For my big 23rd, I'm planning a beach bonfire party across the street from our place. Lots of good people, palm trees, singing, guitars, tropical drinks, and possibly skinny dipping. (The water's a balmy 74 degrees after all.) Should be fun.

In related news, I did not get the Fulbright. The only reason I'm sad about that is because I feel my motivation and dreams and intelligence were put to the test and they failed. But I know it's not like that and in all other respects, I'm super stoked because now I can really commit to being here and enjoying life in Hawai'i. I can take hula long term, learn hawai'ian, make time to SURF finally and hopefully find a supplemental job to the whale watching that I find more fulfilling.

I have been using that word a lot lately, fulfilling, and how my life isn't. But I think all that's about to turn around. At least my social life is turning around which makes me happier and more able to recognize all the possibilities around me. We really can't exist as islands, at least I can't. I need people around me who have a similar passion for life a.k.a. wannabe world savers. Sounds like a flavor of Lifesavers or an underground hiphop group.

I'm still up for moving to Portland, OR some day to join the revolution but until then I've got my eye out for a used pink surf board, a yellow cruiser bike, a copy of Lonely Planet Thailand and a real, fulfilling job. And I think this is just the month for it to happen.

love, kai