So the internet is down at the house and I'm taking this, now rare, opportunity to update my blog (which is a word I've just realized, I don't really like). Anyway, the internet went down right after my last blog post (it wasn't my fault, I swear). I've realized that said blog post sounded very much like complaining. And it
was. But that's not to say I'm not having a good time, it was just a bad day, and I had subsequently no internet to fill you all in on the awesome parts. Which I will now do.
The reason the internet isn't fixed is because no one can get to the house to fix it because there is a flood (nahm too-am). There were three to four days of incessant rain and the river overflowed. This river was full of fish and, as a result of the flooding, people could fish in the streets. I don't have any pictures and I haven't seen it myself yet because who wants to go to a flooded area if you don't have to...I do.
I wrote a journal about last Friday and Sunday, they were good days and you may now read of the awesomeness. (Again, no pictures, because I'm a terrible person.)
Friday:
Today started off by going from bad to worse. Yesterday we were told we had to dance again today and we only had a few hours to practice. When I got to school today I had to try and fit into their "free size" leotard thing. Me and my friend could not fit in because she was too tall and I was both taller than her and wider. So they found us the "large size" ones and they worked. Also we wore long mermaid-like skirts. Then we drove to the waterfront and it was hot and rainy and the material of the leotards were specifically designed to cause the most pain and discomfort. So we danced and we listened to music and my tall friend and I hid behind the "wall" for a while to avoid the shouting and such. I had a major headache and was discontented and dispassionate about the whole thing. Then we went home. My friend came to my house because she had no way to get to her house. (It gets better here...)
Around 5pm that night we had to return to the same place on the waterfront to do another, different, dance that the exchange students had made up. This was more fun than I had expected it to be. The dance started with a French Canadian Flash mob dance, then went to a Thai dance and then to an American hip hop song and finally the Macarena. No one here knows the Macarena so they did not get the inside joke, but we knew and that's all that matters.
After dancing my tall friend and I walked around the festival for a little while, and were able to, with our limited language skills, buy some drinks and some food. We had these delicious rice ball things that had sausage skin around them and were filled with rice mix. We also bought ice cream and someone bought us tiny chocolate roses that tasted like strawberry and we bought pineapple chips, which are delicious.
We wandered around and looked at the stores and I had pretty much the most fun I've had in a while. We were going to go back tomorrow but I have a rotary thing. (Which I didn't end up going to because the food would be too spicy, so I stayed home and had pizza and pasta and wings with my little brother.)
Sunday (clearly written the day after):
Yesterday we made cookies, we being me and two other exchange students. They came to my house because I have an oven (braving the flooded streets). We made chocolate chip cookies with rice flour because one of the exchange students has a wheat allergy. The cookies were a little different tasting than usual, we think it was because of the different tasting brown sugar. The cookies were slightly burnt, because nobody knew how to use the oven (the last time anyone used it was the Brazilians who were inbounds last year). We thought the oven wasn't working because it wasn't heating up. We were about to give up when Dtang-tai, turned the timer dial, just for fun, and the light turned on! It was a good moment. The ones on the top rack were burnt beyond recognition, the ones on the bottom were burnt on the outside but alright-ish on the inside and the third batch was almost perfect. Although all were flat, like 2D flat, because things melt very fast in Thailand. It was quite fun to chat, we had conversations in or about Thai, English, Spanish, French, Mandarin and Russian.
Those were some good times, now I just sit at home, slowly working my way through my Complete Thai book. Which reminds me, today I understood my first full Thai sentence that wasn't said to me in an excruciatingly slow manner and then explained afterwards. It was Khun mair talking about me getting a SIM card for my little brothers old phone and she said, more to herself: gor dai mee to ra sah, which means (essentially) "then you can have a phone." Yay for progress :)
I've also discovered the deliciousness that is Durian snacks. I've had cookies, bread-sticks and (Ritz) crackers with Durian (the crackers also had pork) and all were delicious.
Off for the rest of the week due to said flood and will hopefully be back to school on Monday. Also just noticed that the font in this post is constantly changing, but am too lazy to change it and you can think of it as being on purpose.
