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I stopped blogging when we were in Malaysia and I'm kind of sad that I did because you guys missed all of Africa.  Many days have gone by since we left for the trip.  Actually its been 381 days since we left.  Sadly I've been home since the beginning of July which has been about 7ish months ago.  I reflect back on what we did during our trip constantly and it really sometimes makes me want to cry because those are just memories now and part of my past.  In africa we saw the big 5 and I got to go shark cage diving and I met the most amazing people.  It kills me to think about how much of an impact the people I met on the trip made on me.  I started this blog again because I will slowly be going back and repainting the picture of Africa, England, and Scotland.  I guess I can write about my small trips too.  For example during spring break we are going to Norway to hopefully see Aurora Borealis (the northern lights).  Then next summer I will be hiking Kilimanjaro and I hope to keep this blog up until then.  Oh and I put a video on Youtube about white water rafting in Sri Lanka and it called, Sri Lanka:  White water rafting.  Heres the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj0_UlVPltM  .  That's all I really have to say for right now.

Sri Lanka

So basically we have been feeding elephants, white water rafting, eating, body boarding, swimming, and been under constant cloud cover.  It is rainy season here in Sri Lanka but that makes for really good waves for body boarding which I did yesterday.  I was almost drowned when I accidentally nose dived into a wave.  It felt like forever before the wave let me up.  White water rafting was really fun and after the rapids we were floating down the river and we decided to go for a swim and the guide said that there were vegetarian alligators and when I was in I said to my sister those vegetarian alligators where about to go carnivorous.  It has been really fun here and I might miss it.  There is kind of too much to remember but we have basically done the stuff I listed above oh and we went on a safari but other then that it has been traveling.  I will try to keep up with my blogs even if we do not have internet.

Sri Lanka/Malaysia

I'm not really sure when the last time I blogged was but we have had horrible internet.  So in Malaysia we went and saw temples and botanical gardens and stuff like that.  We met some very nice people including a mom and her daughter who is doing the same thing as us but they are almost done.  If you go to Malaysia all they have to eat there is rice and noodles.  We were sad to leave because we met people and because it was pretty nice.  Then we went to Sri Lanka.  We got here a 5 days ago and it has been pretty fascinating.  So far I have seen Tuk Tuks, fed baby elephants, rode an elephant, seen a cultural dance, walked up over 1000 stairs, saw 2000 year old paintings on ruins, and visited Kandy.  So right now I am in Kandy Land.  I think I like Sri Lanka better then Malaysia because it is cleaner and I feel like there is more to do.  My blogs are going to be every now and then depending on the internet.  Anyway riding elephants was the scariest thing I hace done on this trip.  Feeding baby elephants was really fun and it was like handing somebody food and them grabbing it with there arm.  I HOPE to start the youtube channel today but do not get your hopes up I will let you know in my next blog if it is up or not.

Sad News

So today we went and ate with somebody for brunch and went to drop my dads camera off at a store so he can get it fixed.  When we got back I got my school books so I could do school at the pool.  I finished my first book then got hot and went swimming.  While we were down there somebody came and fixed the internet.  The sad news is my blogs are going to start slowing down because over summer and some during Europe we will not have the best internet so do not expect a blog everyday anymore.

Today

Movies.  That is literally what we did all day.  We watched movies and are still watching movies.  Tomorrow we leave at 6:30 in the morning so we can fly back to Penang.  That is all we did today, nothing interesting.

Les Miserables

Today we went to the mall and were going to look around.  First we went and ate at Chillies and I rank that meal 2nd out of all the meals we have had on this trip.  One reason was it reminded me so much of home and the corn on the cob was amazing.  It would be a regular portion at home but to me it was enough for an elephant.  I ate like a fourth of the chicken, a fork full of mashed potatoes, all the corn, and a slice of bread the size of my palm.  Afterwards I was feeling sick because I ate so much.  Then I kind of really wanted some Starbucks so me and my sister begged my dad until he caved.  Then I asked if I could just go back to the apartment but then realized that might cause a domino affect.  Of course it did and my brother and sister wanted to go home too.  My dad was kind of mad but while they were gone they picked up a few movies.  First of all he got season 2 of Revenge and I was excited about that.  Then I saw they got Les Miserables and had to watch it.  It was pretty good.  It was a lot of singing but it was still good.  Oh yeah I forgot to mention that we think they were pirated movies.  Still we got some good movies then we parted ways.

Lightning

Yesterday we literally sat around watching a movie or blogging.  Later in the afternoon the loudest lightning storm hit.  For maybe 10 minutes we watched the lightning because it was coming down in strikes and the thunder afterwards sounded like you were in a room that echoed a lot while playing the drums as loud as possible.  My dad got his camera and was trying to take pictures of the lightning and got a few.  Across the street workers were working on an apartment complex and the lightning hit while they were up there but they stayed up there until it really started to lightning.  One guy stayed up there but I think he got down pretty soon afterwards.  Then it started pouring down a lot of rain.  After that we ate and Indian dinner and parted ways.