6 days here now.

Or something like that.

So, I officially have to start taking more than one shower every day, because I've grossed my family out sufficiently by taking only one.

And I officially dislike having to meet and speak to new adults in Thailand. It's hard, and they expect more from me than anyone younger does, but I'll just work on it I guess. Once I'm comfortable with the adult I'm okay. Kids are still cool, they'll just laugh at me and go on with life. Yay!


Tuesday I went to some thing that was teaching outbounds going to America how to cook some Thai dishes. I was planning on helping, but I didn't know how to ask if I could, and nobody set me to doing anything ever, so I kind of just awkwardly stood there. I did get to eat yummy Thai food then, though. Also, I guess I have to start eating more, because then maybe people will stop asking me if I'm hungry all the time and offering food to me. There I also drank some Thai iced tea in a bag.



At first I was pretty awkward with the girls there, for a number of reasons I guess, but we're all rotary exchange students, which means we're all nice kids. :'D So soon enough we were figuring out how to communicate anyway, and it was fun.

The group, minus Pat, who didn't want to be in the picture. haha
(Bad lighting. D: )

The middle is my host sister, Mickmee! On the left is um... Pe? Haha, I am not sure of her name. Her first choice for exchange was Germany, but she got the US. On the right is Cartoon (fantastic, yes?). Initially, when I was sent information about who my first host family was, they messed up, and told me the wrong family. That wrong family was Cartoon's family! They may still be my second host family, but I'm not sure. Not in the picture is Pat, who was in Michigan last year, and is now back.

When we went back home, Cartoon came with (apparently she takes dance classes somewhere near here) and I hung out with her, Mickmee, and Mama Sea for a little bit.

Later we had dinner at The Mall. I had seafood fried rice, and, as always, along with our own dishes, a couple more were gotten along side. This time we had som tum and some soup, I can't remember what kind now.

Som tum: shredded papaya salad stuff. Kind of spicey, pretty tasty. They take everything and pound it in a big morter and pestle thing.

Yesterday I didn't do much all morning, but at like 2 Mickmee took me to buy school supplies, and then ended up making me get more junk food, too. (They're really working to keep me fat?) One of the things we got was Choki Choki, which is like... tubes of chocolate paste stuff. It sounds weird, but damn, IT'S FANTASTIC.



Then at like 6 we went out again. First we went and got me my school uniformmm! Wooooo! It is a plain white blouse and a black skirt... not very interesting. The black skirt will probably be handy to have in the future, though, to be honest. Alsooooo, part of my uniform: Heels. They're not particularly high, but they're heels, for sure.


After getting my uniform we went off to The Mall for dinner. It seems like the standard here is: eat at home for lunch (well, nobody can leave the shop alone for too long), and then go out somewhere for dinner. I mean, the housekeeper cooks lunch and all, and she leaves at like 5, so... yeah. Anyway, we went to this place "Black Canyon Coffee House" for dinner. They served both western food stuff, and also Thai food. I got pad thai and tamarind juice. Not bad. I'm not a huge fan of the tiny little shrimp with their shells still on, though. There were also other dishes there, of course.

Mama Sea enjoying her food.


I think Mickmee is totally gorgeous, but she sure does pose funny.

After eating, we headed off to buy stuff for Mickmee for the year. Makeup and stuff. She really likes this Japanese makeup brand... and the model for that brand right now is Mika Nakashima! <3>
One side.

The other side. That's a large picture of my host mother in Australia. And Aladdin sheets. (Yess.)

So far today only one thing of real interest has happened. Like, I woke up, ate breakfast (today they were Chinese bun things-- my family is of Chinese descent), sat around in the shop for a while, and ate a yummy lunch with Mama Sea. Howeverrrr, a little before lunch, the rotary youth exchange coordinator, I don't know how to write his nickname so I'll call him Kittisak, called and was like "You have to go to the bank and sign one more thing." So Pi Lung took me there... on her motor bike! (!) (!!) I know I shouldn't be so excited, but riding on the back of a motor bike for the first time on the left side of the road in Thailand felt pretty exciting, man. Anyway, since then I haven't done much today. In fact, I've sort of just sat in my room for some of it. Bad stuff. Once I'm done writing this I'll go back downstairs.

Fun fact:

Round these parts we get house lizards. They are tiny, and crawl around at night. Plus, they are cute. This glorious specimen was about 1.5 - 2 inches, tip to tail.