I should add, another AMAZING week in this place. :)
It's been crazy. I can't believe I've been here for two weeks already. It feels like I've been here longer, yet not as long all at the same time. Its also weird how the longer I'm here, the more I feel like I notice about the place. Let us see, where to start talking about this week?
I suppose I'll talk about classes first. They're now completely in full gear both her and at Evangel. It makes for an a very busy week. My professors back home have been super awesome about working with me while I'm here. I'm taking 2 classes here too. One is with Dr. Alan Johnson who is like a super genius and also really entertaining. He has a lot of good things that I feel like are important for us to know. Of course, we also have guest teachers really really often in that class, seeing as Alan has other things to do too. I also am taking Thai with Khruu Sasipa. She's so much fun and with our group of kids the class is nothing but smiles, laughter, and, of course, learning. Our Thai is better than it was when we started. Our nights are filled with games and movies up in our commons area. Sometimes we walk to the mall or other places near by. It's really great and the group we have is so much fun.
Let's see... what else? I go to a Thai church. It's amazing. The people are super nice. We're currently working on moving to a new building so that's pretty sweet. I got to go help them clean up the new building just a little bit the other day. Our pastor is hilarious. There's a wooden cross on the wall behind the stage, as there is in many churches. In the sound booth there's a switch that makes the cross light up. Our pastor went and turned it on and then came back and points to it and in his broken English goes "Look. I make miracle. Give me money." I could not stop laughing. The construction workers laughed at us too. Apparently, they're not used to white people doing physical labor. That was a great experience though. I can't wait to get to know everyone in our church better.
Also this week, I got to go on a cultural excursion. It's pretty much the greatest thing ever. Today, we went to the floating market. Somehow it reminded me of New Orleans the way the buildings were built and stuff. You take this boat and it just drives through the market and that's how you get to stores and stuff. You can barter with shop keepers, which I am terrible at. I wanted to buy this thing and she said it was 250 baht (~8.40$), which for what it was was pricey. I also know that if I were Thai she would give it to me cheaper. I didn't aim too low, 150 baht (~5$). She wanted me to go up to 200, but we evened out at 170. Still more than I should have spent, but I almost gave in haha. Glad I didn't. We also went to this zoo place. They had terrible food. :P I ate this green candy looking thing that had like a hard exterior and a goopy interior. I don't know how to describe it. It was like trying to eat flavored snot. I know that's gross but that is the only thing I can think of to compare it to. We also got to ride elephants! It was incredible. We had the coolest driver and he was super nice. He learned English just from being around tourists. He said he's lived all over the Asia Pacific. It was super cool. It's like riding a really really big horse haha. Only we were on seats. They also had an epic show with fire and everything. The elephants played soccer too! Its so cool! Elephants are my new favorite animal. :D
The only thing about it I didn't like was how they treated the animals. Not that it was bad, but they really pushed them hard. Idk. I spose its whatevs, but yeah.
So yeah. I get to learn by riding elephants. How do you get to learn? In a classroom? So cliche :)
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