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1 Month Down
well, we have now officially been in thailand for 1 month, or 30 days. its been a good 30 days i think upon reflexion. after getting through living in our host families house, we have now settled into a kind of routine although the teaching is yet to begin. we head to chang mai next friday which should be very exciting.
over the last few days we have been quite biuys. the primary school held a kind of welcoming ceremony for us where we were presented with flowers and now have no idea what to do with them. there was roast beef which was deliciouse.howver there was the director or charman or something who did a long droning speach in thai which obviously we couldnt understand. nobody even listens to the seaches and just continue to talk amongst themselves. howver, after that we went home and finished the second season of greys anatomy.
on thursday, i went to the secondary shcool fully expecting another long and boring day. howvere after lunch and about 12, Nanta said she had to go to kutchum for a meeting and asked if we wanted to join her and go visit chesss and clara's school, which we did. when there, we met chess and clasra who luckily had the afternoon off so we got to dtay there until nanta scmae to pick us up at 6.30 is to take us to a party.
it was good seeing another project. Kutchum is similar to Loeng Nokta but there were many more stands where you can buy ruit juices and smoothies whic h there are practiclaly none of in loend nokta. there is house is nice, and humble. we got a little tour and walked around the town then went back to thiers to qwatch the hangover. overall, it was a very god tday. then we went to the party. i think it was the directors birthdya or he was retiring. still not sure. they had all these thai dancers on the stage with loud music. then another few long boring speaches which nobody listened to and then they presnted each gift to the guy, presented by all the gift giver which took a very bvery long time. all the while we were of course given more food.
then on firday, nanta's old exchange students came to visit. so we left the secondary school early again and went to visit her old host family and school that she taught n. then we went to mukdahan again to go th the national park and see i think it was called rocky mountain which was basically natural formation of odd looking rocks. but it was really good to see.
oi forgot to say, in the morning, becasuse fleur hasnt been feeling well, we went to the hospital which was designed like a train station with a system like argos. it made an interesting experince. then they gave fleur 3 different types of medication, one of which is apparently a tranquiliser.
anyway, firday evening the same guy who had the party on thursday, had this one. joined with a few other people. it was pretty much the same set up as the other one but was quicker, and because it was actually in loeng nokta we got to bed much earlier.
now to today, i did my first pice of excercise i have done since arriving and went on a 50 minute cycle down the road. it saw a dead snake on the side of the road and got chased for a brief moent by a barking dog. but all is good and i feel much better for it :)
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Kelly ...and you got an A for English haha. Can't believe you got chased by a dog you dafty :) love love love xx