Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Life Outside of Korat


Almost twenty days are up of my exchange, I can’t believe it is going by so fast! This week has brought a whole new set of challenges, I now have enough vocabulary that I can say words, but I still cannot from sentences, so the problem with only stating words is that people do really understand that you are actually trying to ask them a question.  It is great fun seeing them laugh hysterically at my failed attempts to roll my r’s but I will get there, soon hopefully.

Well enough with the language, and on to my first trip around Thailand, I had the pleasure this past weekend to travel with my host cousin and her friends down to Pran Buri and Hua Hin, on the coast about 3 hours away from Bangkok.  We stayed on night at each place, and in Pran Buri, my wake-up call my “come on lets go for a swim”, in the lovely warm water and sandy beach.  Also on the way down to Pran Buri we stopped at Phra Nakhon Khiri, the first palace and temple to have been built on the top of a mountain.  The design was absolutely beautiful, a mix between Thai and Chinese architecture with 19th century European pieces inside.  Oh and there were wild monkeys everywhere on that mountain and they “attacked” (came up to one of the people I was travelling with, but who is very scared of monkeys) causing her to drop her water bottle and the monkey proceeded to open it and drink the remaining water, it was quite a sight.  Seeing as we were on our way to the sea, seafood was a main attribute to the trip and we had it every day we were there, even the night we went to a night market and saw an open air production of traditional Thai life, we left to market without going to the food stalls to search out a better seafood restaurant on the beach!  So all in all a very fun trip and they were able to help me learn a lot more Thai, because they would say everything in Thai and English.

Finally, this week I have also met another exchange student, surprisingly from Burlington, Ontario and she is going to the same school as I am, and the excitement increases as tomorrow is our orientation and this will be the first time bringing the exchange students together.  Also, Thursday will be my first Suranaree Rotary Club meeting, so lots of first’s this week, but hopefully that continues! 

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