walk like a ...thai dancer?...& welcome to the jungle

this week, the girls learned to express themselves through traditional thai dance (don't ask me what they expressed exactly). while joanie may have found her second calling, daniel had to call a doctor...

i said it before, and i'll say it again - daniel is a G. i'll discuss why later, but i had to get that out right now... so the girls go to a thai theater to learn traditional dance. was it just me, or did anyone else get nostalgic for the "the king and I"? (et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!) they were instructed in the ways of expressing themselves with their bodies, learning what was feminine, masculine and arrogant. "thank you...cause i don't want to do that!" jade says; there's no t a shred of arrogance in her, jade says. what?! is that suppose to be funny? you read it here first - jade is a poor comedian and a bad liar. when the girls were tested with a public demonstration, sarah was still pitifully awkward (but i think she tried harder than she has been), jade was trying so hard that she appeared stoic (or wait, is that just her face?), furonda was a comedy of errors (chris rock would say she cost us a few steps, but maybe she can get put on wilin' out) and sweet joanie had the total package (she was pleasant and pretty, humble and capable). in the end, joanie won the challenge; she and sarah had dinner with the editor of Elle Thailand (a potentially important contact). and where was daniel?...

after the lesson and before the demonstration, daniel experienced the less glamorous side of international travel: exhaustion, dehydration and food poisoning - to name a few. "i had never been in a hospital," she says, "so i didn't understand what they were saying." poor baby! i think that had less to do with medical jargon and more to do with the whole not-speaking-English thing, but i could be wrong. after diagnosis, daniel showed that she was a G once more, having missed the challenge she left the hospital (against doc's orders) to participate in the photo shoot...

the ladies had the privilege of working closely with the gentle giants of the jungle, elephants. daniel came off her sick bed to lay down the law! she moaned and groaned on the ride to the set, she nearly hurled on the animal trainer, but when she saw that flash and heard that click TA-DA! she turned into "supermodel!" her photos were so sick (the good kind, of course). next came jade, and maybe she would have been better of following the animal's lead because she sure as hell didn't follow jay's. man was he fed up with her! he put her down so bad she apologized (yeah, i caught it too)! the shoot was for a new razor. furonda is all leg. it should have been a cakewalk, right? but she just couldn't get right! the last frame was absolutely beautiful; i can't speak for the rest of them. then came joanie, who's just got "the glow" right now. she was original with her poses, she was vibing with the elephant, jay was oozing compliments all over her. sarah, being the smart girl that she is watched joanie and listen to jay and put 2 and 2 together. unfortunately, this basic arithmetic turned to algebra because for sarah 2+2=y. as in "why did you copy joanie? why couldn't you be original? why, if you were going to copy, didn't you do it better?" thankfully, the camera loves her. but the camera loved everyone this episode...

at panel, the girls had the challenge to translate emotions with their bodies. to ensure that they didn't depend on their facial expressions, they had to were masks. sarah was too cerebral with it. joanie and jade - a little less thai, a little more model, huh? daniel confused aggression for expression, but in the end furonda couldn't save face and was sent home. she walked her final walk back to the apartment to pick up her things. kept her head up and never missed a step. got to love that girl.