The Start :)

Thailand, I finally made it after 19 hours of flying time not including layovers, but it was most definitely worth it! My host mom, sister and cousin met me at the airport with a welcome sign and a mango, rice dish (very delicious) and we spent that evening at their condo, in Bangkok.  When we drove up to Korat, the following day I had my first taste of Thai cuisine, it even had huge pieces of mushrooms in it, but I ate them and loved it!! We also stopped off at a huge temple that a famous superstar had built not too long ago, they had a huge golden statue and a smaller one, on which you can stick gold leaf paper to it and it is supposed to bring you luck and riches, because if you give riches (the gold paper) to someone else them you are supposed to receive good fortune in return. At least that is how it was explained to me. Once we finally arrived in Korat, I met my host father and grandma, and my host dad wanted to keep feeding me fruit, which was delicious but we had just had lunch.  There is no shortage of food to be eaten here.

Well to kind of official start my exchange we visited my new school today and learnt was I am supposed to do next Tuesday, my first day, it is a huge school but seems very well organized.  Every evening the is an open air market called Save One and I was introduced to it my first day, well, all I can say is that I am going to be buying everything there( well a lot of things as it is the cheapest place to find anything you would like.  They have food, clothes, movie, puppies, turtles, jewellery, shoes etcetera, etcetera.  So all in all this has been a pretty fantastic first full day in Thailand.

Well I got my uniform for my school today, with huge black shoes, white, plain, flat running shoes that I have to wear for gym; however, the most interesting part is probably the pants that I have to wear for gym!  I also say my first Thai movie, it was quite bizarre, a lot of cutting right in the middle of scenes, but it was still good.  Also an interesting fact about Thailand their Mother’s Day is whenever the Queen’s birthday is and it happened to be this Sunday, so in a form of respect they give flower wreaths to all the mothers and wish them health in the coming year.  So every Mother in the house yesterday was honoured with these flowers and good wishes from everyone younger then them, it is actually a very nice gesture.

Well I know this was a long post, but I had no access to the internet since I arrived, so here is the start of my year in blog format!!