So we've now been here for over a week. Wow. Right? Sorry for my followers that I haven't posted all week. It has been crazy. We started classes this week and everything else. Monday, I think it was Monday... we went to Platinum which is a huge mall downtown. We took the Airtran which was fun. Platinum was HUGE. There's like a million malls here in Bangkok. They seem like a less organized version of American malls sort of. They have small local shops everywhere except in the really fancy stores. The mall closest to us has a grocery store in it and a water park lol. I haven't been yet but I will. :) Classes started and everything kicked into full gear. So with all the business not a lot of super exciting stuff has happened. Other than just the fact that I'm in Thailand lol.
Thai class is interesting lol. Its really hard to get the tones down. Our teacher is very patient and loves to laugh with us. It makes it so much fun, even though we suck at it lol. The language itself is way more simple than English. The tones however are so hard. Oh well. One class at a time :)
Saturday, my team had an English camp to teach at. The kids were so much fun and so cute! My station was shopping. We had a bunch of random objects and the kids had to ask how much stuff costs and we would tell them and ask them questions and stuff. Some of them liked to ask what objects were. We had trouble explaining the word "barrette" until we realized it was a French word and gave up and called it a "hair clip" instead. lol Even native English speakers get confused. haha. They kept feeding us weird food. Ok and food is one thing here. It's delicious and amazing. Usually. lol. The stuff we ate at the school, not so much. lol. But we were considered special guests so it was important to eat it. The first thing we ate was this weird stuff made of coconut milk. it was served on a folded leaf and also had these weird little ball things that looked like fish eggs but tasted like tapioca. The second thing we ate was like a roll with something else made also of coconut milk. Both were green by the way. For lunch we had green curry. Not really my favorite thing. It was cool to see some of the Thai games they play. They play hacky sack but their hacky is like little wooden round things with feathers on top. I didn't get a close look at it but yeah. Same game. Except they don't mind using their hands lol. We then went and walked around a Muslim community. It was small and rather adorable, but the smell was not so good. There and downtown I've noticed it. The smell makes me so sick and you can't breath from your mouth either because then it burns your throat. I guess it's the bad sewage here. Not just in poor areas either. That smell, I will never get used to. It made me so sick after we went downtown Monday. Anyways, the people there were super nice though.
Today we just got up and went to church. Our church is amazing. Definitely Pentacostal lol. And God moves in that place a lot. We came back I got a small break and then went walking around the mall. We ate McDonalds for dinner. Its different here. I kinda like it better. You can get ice cream cones for .30$ there. Its cool. The market was fun. They have an outdoor market right outside the mall. Its kind of sad. Thais are so skinny. So people who are like normal American sized have to shop at "big people" stores. Like an XXL here is the size of a medium in America. Yeah. Unite States. You're fat. Just saying. lol.
Well, I think that's all the update for now. So, until next time. :)
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