Thai beauty pageant

So yesterday was fun :) chilled out and decorated my room, did some fb, read, ate, and talked and then got ready for my big performance :) there was this beauty pageant for all the freshman class where one woman and one man were voted by their field of study to represent them in the pageant. I am one of two men in Thai studies so I volunteered. It was the first year Thai studies was doing this so we didn't really know what was going on exactly lol the rehearsal took three hours. We learned how to walk on stage and pose. For the real thing we dressed in traditional Thai dress and walked in front of about a thousand people as we were being judged. Before us there were bands playing and advertisement for Honda in the huge stadium we were in. It was crazy!! After the walk we changed into school uniforms and walked again with cooler posses and an introduction using some Thai. It was all so awesome! They tried to put make up on me but I refused. Also still managed to eat vegan behind stage :) this is apparently huge in Thailand. Every university in the county does it and they have been doing it for a very long time. There were camera crews and a huge amount of photographers and my face was on a big screen tv for everyone to see :) I felt like a celebrity or a king :) lol we left at 1030 but the thing went on till 1ish. But apparently they loved us because they all screamed so much when we went up and the judges have us third out of 21 going into he second round but we had already left. Dang! But it was so cool and great to feel part of it and loved :) one in a lifetime experience. Now I can say I was in a Thai beauty pageant. How many people can say that? :)