A Day with My Sisters
This post is going to be kind of long, but only because SO MUCH has happened in the past few days. Last weekend, my host family asked me if I wanted to go on a little trip for my day off. I said "sure, why not!" having no idea what we were about to do. My host mom knocked on my door yelling "Emily, gin khao!!" at 6:30 (even though we definitely agreed on 7:00, farewell, zzz's). I groggily got ready, grabbed my backpack, and jumped in the car with my family. In about two hours, we arrived at our first destination: Kanchanaburi war cemetery. Here, almost 7,000 prisoners of the Japanese during World War II are buried. These prisoners were forced to build the Thailand/Burma railway, which stretched over 258 miles. The pictures of the prisoners building the railway are quite disturbing, and I'm slightly embarrassed that I did not know anything about it beforehand. The cemetery was beautiful, and also filled with Dutch and Australian tourists looking ...