is one week even enough?????

The picture is the 'Sigiriya' mountain in Sri Lanka.

Okay.. first of all I am past my deadline for this blog.. and I have to apologize because i severely overslept..kinda.. I slept.. woke up and slept again because the bed was so comfy..

If I had one week to live.. first thing I would do is book a plane ticket (without thinking of the $2000 something price tag) home. Then I would go home and eat and sleep my way through jet lag.. which will take one or two days. Then for the remaining five days I will go on a trip around Sri Lanka with my friends, and I will drag every single one of them with me. I'm dying so I can be selfish for the last week of my life right?

I want to go around the world, but I think one week isn't enough to see the beauty of this world and I will die regretting the fact that I went to see the world but didn't have enough time to see everything.

Even though I'm from Sri Lanka there are loads of places I haven't seen and am dying to. Because of the war the regions the terrorists were in were closed off until this year when the land mines had been cleared off. The whole north side of the country was closed off for anyone who wasn't from there, and even people from the north didn't want to go and die in a bomb blast.

There's Trincomalee, a naturally made port for ships, as I've been told and the 'Nilavaly Beach' there is said to be the most beautiful beach in the world. There also 'Arugambe', it's a bay on the eastern side of the country and is really beautiful. We went there once but didn't get to stay long.

I want to go see 'Yapahuwa', it's one the last Sinhalese King's palaces and I want to climb the 1000 something stairs again. The view when you climb up is really gorgeous. I went there on my school trip once. You could actually sit on the throne! Or what's left of it anyways.

I want to climb 'Sigiriya' again too. It's a rock that shaped like a lion, which I fail to see no matter how many times I see it. But at the foot of the rock mountain the huge thing has two enormous carved paws and the stairs lead straight to the rock carved like the mouth of the lion.. it's super cool!

And most of all... I want to eat my mom's cooking again. Her 'buriyani', a sort of fried rice in Sri Lanka, and homemade chocolate cake are the best in the world! I miss it so much. And on the last day I want my dad to make his barbeque again, even if he keeps over cooking the meat it tastes good. And I'm going to scavenge my telescope and watch the moon, because I couldn't do it the last time.

And this is the list of things to do in my last week among the living.. then say hello to the ghost of me!