So I have been in Thailand for a month now and this is only my second post ooppss.
I am just going to tell a little about everything here and what I have done and hopefully I will then start posting a blog every week and not only once a month! haha
So first of all My Family. My famly is really confusing. My first host mom is the sister of my second host family but I live at my second host famlilies house. I have a host brother and sister. My brother is 16 and he leaves for Venezuala tomorrow wahh :( My sister is 11 (i think..) and I see her every now and then. She lives with my first host mom I think because her house is closer to the school. Haha like I said it is confusing. Everyone in my family can speak English just a little bit, I'm glad it is a little and not none haha. My dad owns a restaraunt (the one i am sitting at right now writing this blog). I see the dad usually like once a week becuase he travles alot with his other job. I just know that my mom works in another province, but not really sure what she does, well technically she isn't my first host mom but she is my first host dads wife lol.
My School is sooo much fun.There are 5 exchange student girls that go to my school. I go to a vocational college so technically I am not taking any "real" classes there all elective type classes which is great. My schedule is Monday: Flower, Cake Decoration, and Cocktail Class. Tuesday: Ballroom Dancing & Muay Thai. Wednesday: International Cooking & Thai Lanugage. Thursday: International Cooking & Thai Massage. Friday: Packaging Design, Local Food & Muay Thai. I have those classes the rest of September and then in October we have a break and then we start back up in November but I will have a different schedule. There are ALOT of ladyboy in my school, which are gay guys. They are actually really pretty and sometimes it is really hard to tell if it is a guy or girl haha Also inbetween classes we have 2-3 hours to do nothing so we either make some friends or go and eat somewhere! My ride to school is a Sorng Tao which is a pick up truck with 2 benches in the back and a covering and window. It cost me 8 baht everytime i ride it. They can seriously fit like 20 people on those things..it sucks when it is that crowded.
Just random things i have noticed :D
There are motorcycles everywhere here. It seems lik 70% of the people drive one or atleast own one. And I have seen 4 people on one :O I dont understand how they fit 4 because me and my friend only could fit 3 and we were soo squished haha. I have also seen a person driving one holding a tree at the same time.
Drivers here are crazy. I don't think there are any speed limits and they don't really pay attention to the lines on the road at all....if there even is lines. You will look out the window and there is a motorcycle or car like 2 inches from you, its kind of really scary sometimes.
There are dogs EVERYWHERE. It seems like everywhere I look I see a stray dog. Knowing me and how much I love dogs I want to pet everyone I see. My host family always yells at me and says to not pet them because there dirty hahah oh well. Most of the dogs look like they have been through hell and back like my host moms dogs arm is cut in half and you can just like see the bone :0 it got hit by a car.
I always see old white men with young thai women and it is kind of creepy haha.
I came here thinking I would see elephants alot, I saw my first elephant last weekend so about a month after I got here -_- lol
I love shopping here, I seriously have spent so much money so far..I need to stop but everything is so cheap and I can't help myself.
Fooodddd. "hew mai" I get asked this question allll the time! They are asking if I am hungry. It will be like 10 minutes after I eat like a feast and feel like i am going to explode and they ask that im like omggg noo. haha. The food is good but for me it is taking a lot of getting used to. I never ate spicy food back home so now I am kinda being forced to liking it >.< I got a gym membership..If you come here that might be a good idea or atleast find out where the park is haha. Also when you eat here you have to use a fork in your left hand and a spoon in your right. You push the food onto the spoon with the fork and eat off the spoon. EVEN with noooodles they put them all on the spoon and do it. I have been able to eat every food like that so far but just not the noodles. I am getting better at chopsticks :D
Well today I got my first massage :D It was amazingggg and a Thai massage. For one hour it only cost 120 baht so 4 US dollars. I am now going to go back at least once a week!
EVERYONE in Thailand has a blackberry well like 99% of them do.
everything here is soo cute. I will be walking in the mall and they have all this hello kitty stuff and just adorable little things and i always just want to buy it all.
Well that is enough I think haha..I will try to post more but I never like writing these long blogs blahhhh. And probably noone even reads this ahha ohh well. If you did thanks (: