I made it!!!

Ok, here I am! I had quite the arduous trip here but I am now in the land of a thousand smiles and it is fantastic! Here's how it went down...
I made it to the airport with plenty of time, should have know then. I was to fly Boston to San Fransisco to Hong Kong to Phuket. The flight boarded on time. Check. I had a middle seat. Negative, but I was still optimistic. We taxied to the runway and sat..sat...sat until the piolt said that we were having a maintence issue with one of the air conditioning units and we were going back to the gate to see if they could fix it. They could not. "That's okay," he said. We can fly with one. And we did, taking off over an hour and a half late, cutting my 3 hour layover in half, until we reached crusing altitude. That's when boiling hot air came pouring out of the vents and the cabin heated up to at least 120 degrees. Scary and unacceptable, so we diverted to JFK and there went my connection. We were there until midnight (flight was scheduled for 6:40 pm). They promised up and down they would get me to Hong Kong on time, and I was far to discombobulated to figure that one out, so I got on the plane, landed in San Fran 3 am local time. There I was told that I could fly to Korea at 2pm and get to Phuket at midnight Sunday. I was unhappy, but what could I do. They put me up in a hotel and gave me meal vouchers. Fine. I went out to wait for the shuttle and called my dad, quickly approaching 4 am. As the shuttle pulled up, I hung up with my dad. Got to the hotel, super nice! Went to plug in my phone...my phone? Where's my phone?!?! Not in the shuttle according to the driver, so back to the airport to look around. Nope, no crackberry and now, its turned off. Gone, forever. Back to the hotel, a hot mess by now in case you were wondering. Managed to sleep from about 6-9:30 am, back to the airport. Got on the flight with no clue where my bags were at this point but on I went. 12 hours to Korea. One of the coolest flights EVER! Comfy seats, hot towels, lunch, dinner, snacks, toothbrushes, and wicked new t.v. and movies. I got to watch Entourage and Buffy! no sleep tho, still. Got to Korea without incident, where I discovered an odd phenomenon. Young couples, dressed alike. No, not alike, the SAME. Same shirts, sweaters, even pants some. And they went nuts on the duty-free shopping. I plan to find out what the deal with that is soon. Anyhoo, got on the flight to Phuket, only half full, so I chilled, nodded maybe but no real sleep. Six hours later, Phuket @ midnight local time. Waited in the passport line, got my little bag, with shoes and junk, no clothes. Great. Caught a cab (?), at least a guy with a car that charged me money. Got me to my villa, about an hour away about 2 or 3 am. Had to be @ training for 8:30, luckly I had one extra outfit in my carry on. I had made it, and to be honest I was ready to turn around and come home. I was extremley unhappy, lonley, tired and aggravated, but training I did.
Later I hooked up with some others from the program and caught a cab to "The Big C." Oh. My.God. This place is the Thai answer to Wal- Mart, only on steroids. 4 stories of food, clothes, electronics, bowling, nail and hair shops, etc. Very bright, loud and overwhelming on jet lag and no sleep, but I managed to buy a Thai cell phone, no easy feat with my lack of Thai and their lack of English. I felt like a jerk walking up to everyone in a cell phone booth going "English?' "English?" but I got it done (still having some trouble using it tho, will check back on that). Got back to find my crew at dinner at a Thai resturant up the street, so I went. Ate bomb Thai food, drank Tiger beer and swapped life stories until 2 am! at 2 am, I got back to my villa and discovered that my key would not work in my door, had to sleep in another room with none of my stuff, still wouldn't work, one of the maintenance guys used a latter to climb my balcony! Went to training on Thai culture, very different, interesting stuff!
All complaining aside, I'm good now. The people in my group and all the staff are wicked cool, this island is amazing and unlike anything I could have imagined. There are geckos and dogs everywhere! Orchids grow like weeds all over and everything is soooo green and beautiful. It is super hot, but not unbearable. I just got back from a Thai massage! Talk about different.
Well, I have so much more to write, can't wait but my brain is shutting down, so I'm off to bed. Sigh. I will write more soon, so much more to share. In short, I'm great.
*Love*