Canadian Soil

Homesickness got the best of me.  My first plan was to go to Vietnam and than go home after meeting the family in Bangkok for a few days.  But that planned failed when I phoned the airline company in order to change my flight and was informed that all the planes where booked till June 27th.

The last few days were very emotional.  I was upsetting my parents since I was so upset and I even upset Mon a few times.  When my mom asked Mon to give me a hug Mon started to cry which made my mom start crying as well.

I spent an entire day on the phone with the airline company trying to find a solution for me to go home early.  We thought about flying into Seattle or  Calgary but they both had layovers in Vancouver.  After about four hours I was told that I would be able to fly back home as an emergency.

So my plane ticket was changed and I was scheduled to fly back on May 28th.  That gave me two days to say goodbye to everyone and do all the last minute stuff I had to do.  On the 26th I went to the village to say goodbye to everyone and on the 27th I stayed at home with the family and just relaxed.  The family which included Sa, Tha, Mama, Mon's brother, and us (Taiten, Bow, Mon, and I) all took me out for dinner one night.  It was hard to say goodbye but I was ready to come home.

On the night of the 27th I had to go to the bus station and wait for a bus to take me to Bangkok.  Since I lived in Kamphaeng which is a connecting down between Bangkok and Chiang mai I was not able to prebook my ticket.  That mean't I had to go to the bus station and hope they had a set available.  Since I was planning on catching the late night buses which left from 11 to 12 if by any chance none of them had seats I would have had to have Mon drive me down.

I unfortunately didn't get to say a goodbye to the kids since both were asleep and Mon couldn't wake them up.  It was a long 48 hours of traveling with the time change but when I finally arrived in vancouver I was relieved.  My parents drove down that morning and where only five kilometres out when I arrived.  When I walked into the waiting area I saw my parents just walk in.  I started running towards them with anticipation only to have both of them continue to walk away.  Equipped with two suitcases I ran after them pushing people out of the way.  I was to slow and both had entered the washroom before I could reach them or get their attention.  So I waited outside the rest room for them.  They were both shocked to see me since they believed I was still waiting to get through customs even though I texted them saying I had received my bags.

We stayed the night in Vancouver and drove back the next morning.  Once I got home I went to surprise my best friend Cole with my arrival.  While boarding the plane to Hong Kong I texted him informing him that there wasn't any flights available till the 28th which he believed.  I planned with Morgyn, his girlfriend, to meet them somewhere so I could surprise him.  It worked out perfectly since while he was inside A&W I waited in the car with Morgyn.  When he walked out he just stopped and stared completely shocked as to if it as actually me or not.

After spending sometime downtown running into friends and hanging out with Cole we went back to my house where some of my friends were waiting for me.  My parents had gotten all my friends together to throw me a surprise coming home party.  It was so nice to see everyone again.