I have a confession. I have now seen The Hunger Games THREE times despite the fact I am living in Thailand. And cried twice. Each time. Real or not real? It'll be pretty weird seeing the movie once it comes out on DVD back home and not seeing Thai subtitles along the bottom!
But now to the important schtuff. Today, the rest of my program left for a 6 day homestay in a dam-affected community while myself and three other girls stayed behind. Why oh why? For the next two weeks, we are going on a special project with an NGO on the Cambodian border! Working with four Thai students (who are AWESOME ps, I cannot wait to be best friends with them), we will be teaching six days of English camp and spending six days working on the construction of a bathroom for one of the families in the community. While there, we are sleeping on the floor of a local school and that's about the extent of details that we know. I'm so stoked for this crazy adventure! After our two weeks in Sisaket, we have a few days before we return to our normal program and we're hoping to catch Songkran, a nationwide Thai festival that is essentially a HUGE water fight to cool the country down as summer kicks in to the max. After spending two and a half months eating, sleeping, and breathing with the same 20 people, it's pretty insane to think about being away from most of them for two weeks, but it will just make our reunion in two weeks that much more sweet!
Kind of like another homecoming I know that is fast approaching...
I can't even describe how quickly this semester is going and how much I love it here. Today, I got to join the Community Public Health program on their Thai Fun Activity with the Ajaans (teachers) because my Development & Globalization program left for the aforementioned homestay. We created pottery at the Faculty of Fine Arts and then Ajaan Jeab took us all to the first European looking coffeehouse I've seen in months, I felt like I was in Latvia again. Ajaan Nidnoi, Mava, and I played Jenga and drank lattes and had what can only be described as a lovely day. It was wonderful to spend some time with the other program while also pretending I was far greater at pottery than I actually am and mentally envisioning I had some great art studio like Rachel McAdams in The Vow. Hey, a girl can dream. As for me, I've got to go pack for two weeks of unexpected adventures and new Thai friends! Sawatdeeka and may the odds be EVER in your favor.
I can't even describe how quickly this semester is going and how much I love it here. Today, I got to join the Community Public Health program on their Thai Fun Activity with the Ajaans (teachers) because my Development & Globalization program left for the aforementioned homestay. We created pottery at the Faculty of Fine Arts and then Ajaan Jeab took us all to the first European looking coffeehouse I've seen in months, I felt like I was in Latvia again. Ajaan Nidnoi, Mava, and I played Jenga and drank lattes and had what can only be described as a lovely day. It was wonderful to spend some time with the other program while also pretending I was far greater at pottery than I actually am and mentally envisioning I had some great art studio like Rachel McAdams in The Vow. Hey, a girl can dream. As for me, I've got to go pack for two weeks of unexpected adventures and new Thai friends! Sawatdeeka and may the odds be EVER in your favor.
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