For the spring semester, I have given up the small town of Grantham, Pennsylvania, to live in an entirely different part of the world. THAILAND!! I have become a fully enrolled student at the Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand and will be exploring many different aspects of Thai culture! I'll be learning the Thai language, living with a Thai family, taking classes and interning at a local organization. I'm so excited!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Internship Wrapup

This past week I finished my internship. I have a little less than 100 hours logged. It's insane how fast the time went. I can say that I am really going to miss the kids at Agape. We were able to go and spend one last Saturday there yesterday. We made french toast and played jump rope and all sorts of fun stuff. In Aj. Mike's business with the farewell party he forgot to tell the rot-dang driver to pick us up. So one of the girls host mom's drove us, but then once we were there we had no way to get home. So we had to walk out to the main rode...maybe about 2 miles...or a little more. Then we had to walk along until we saw a rot-dang coming. The girls were on the opposite side of the street from me because I had to go home after Agape because I live so close so I was looking for a rot-kieow....a green truck instead of the red-truck. But I called the rot-dang over and tried to bargain the price down for the girls. I got him down from 500 baht to 1oo baht...not too bad I'd say. It's still really pricey but since we were so far outside the city it and there was no telling when another one would come along, they decided it was good enough. I kept walking towards where I would get the rot-kieow. And then I waited and waited for one to come along. It was so hot outside. I'm talking beastly hot! My black flip flops were burning hot where my foot didn't touch. So if I shifted my foot a little it got burned. Insane. Then once I got on the rot-kieow, I rode it home and then had to walk into my development from the front gate. Man was I hot and sweaty and gross when I got back. And the crazy thing is it's only gonna get hotter....AH!

2 comments:

  1. oh man, the heat sounds bad. But good bargining for the transportation.

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  2. Good job, MK. sounds like you are learning how to handle lots of different situations.
    We love you!

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