Yesterday was classic. Tuesday, my first day of school. well if you think about it I have had like 21 of those "first" days but whose keeping track.
You know when your in a class with all of your friends and then there is that one "new" kid or the "FOREIGN exchange student"..Hello I'm Chrissy Bowman. YEP that was me. the american girl with the strong accent. ? what? Never saw that coming. So in Thailand its like ok to be late. it's not like a blind date where if you are waiting for 5 min your like wtf and then 15 your like never again... its like 15 and your sold. First impression=Teacher is hilarious. Interpersonal relations in thailand.....common what could be better? (sticky rice and mango ;)
So we had our first group assignment and I got in a group with these 3 girls and 1 guy.... I was trying to be friendly and ask what everyones names were..."Oh I'm Chae, I'm Kuie, I'm Maye, I'm Aunta" this is when I realized yep... I am the foreigner. When I got out of class Brooke met me at school and we decided to explore. Greatest idea ever... we ended up finding barred treasure behind the school..aka The hidden temple. Meditation temple for international students! after passing some messed up little kitties and some monks we made it to the international meditation room. Unlike anything I have ever seen/experienced. Took off our shoes, filled out some paperwork and next thing you know we are following this sweet lady upstairs to the room where people meditate. You thought twilight had a lot of vampires....we peaked in and people were meditating standing up. I can't even describe to you what it looked like. So of course me and Brooke wanted to fully experience it. We went in and sat down on the floor mats, cross legged and all. I had NO IDEA what I was doing or what to do. I just pretended to do something that I saw in a movie or in hot yoga. After a long 3 minutes I looked at Brooke and she said, "I think we should come back when we know what we are doing..." I said "Good Idea".
What an amazing place though, I cannot wait to learn how to do it all.
Moving on, we started wondering over to the great palace but of course got distracted by a group of birds. Next thing you know some lady on the streets is handing me bird food (corn) and I am getting bombarded by pigeons. Funniest/Funnest thing ever. They are NOT shy one bit. Brooke got to feed them too and we were having the time of our lives. 15 minutes of Marypoppins right before the HUGE rainstorm. In Thaliand it dumps for like 15/20 minutes start and its every man and woman for themselves. Right after the birds left it started pouring...We had no umbrella, no rainproof coats and no taxi. No street vendor would let me stand under there umbrella and nobody that had one wanted to share. We finally found a Tuk Tuk to take us home after 1 hour and a sandwich. The rest of the night we just kicked it and Skype our friends from auzzi Mitch! WE MISS YOU MITCH AND WILL COME VISIT YOU SOON. Please have a ton of fun stuff planned for us cause we get bored easily :)
Mitchy! we loved the Skype seshh!
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