Today was a pretty darn good day. Not to say that all my days aren't pretty good, but I realized that I am having all these little amazing experience that I am not documenting, purely on the fact that I don't have any photos and feel like I need photos to create a blog post. Not so! So if you are reading this for only the photos I post every once and a while, I'm sorry, I need to document some things that happen that I don't happen to catch on camera too.
Well, today began with a wonderful day of teaching. It's winter camp right now which means that we get to teach all of the kids in 5 different rotations. It's great because up till now I have only been teaching the older kids, so I get to interact and learn more about the younger kids. it's both stressful, frustrating, and so funny at the same time. They definitely are not as advanced as the older group I am used to teaching, but they are so cute, it almost completely makes up for it haha. I had never really learned all their names until I started teaching them either so I'm grateful for that opportunity. Today, while we were out after school, we saw one of little students out with his mom. His name is Ghod. (yup, sounds like God, trust me though, that's not the weirdest of names here haha, we definitely have a Pizza, Moo Pee, Mee Poo, Bonus, Nest, and D-Day.) but anyways, its so great that we get to see our students out of school all the time in town because this is such a small town. We see them all over the place quite often.
After we had finished teaching for the day, a couple of us girls went out for some delicious Pad Thai. We now have a favorite place that serves the most scrumptious Pad Thai for $1.00. After we finished, We stopped by a fresh fruit stand that makes smoothies and I got a pineapple/kiwi smoothie. Fresh pineapple from Thailand simply cannot be beat. I am becoming increasingly more nervous about how my fruit consumption in the states will be affected by this trip simply because I feel like I have never really had fruit until I got here. Everything in the states I seem to recall tasting like cardboard compared to here. And wow, the variety of Tomatoes, they actually have a taste! I assumed they were always supposed to taste like water! Turns out not! They are super sweet and delicious!
The girls and I were enjoying a smoothie yesterday downtown when a young girl approached us and asked if she could sit down. We were surprised by the amount of english she knew and she eventually asked us if we would be willing to tutor her in english for the next couple of days so she could practice speaking for her english exam that is coming up. We readily agreed and said we could meet with her about an hour each day until her exam. She was so sweet, she tried to ask how much she could pay us but we insisted we were here as volunteers and would be willing to help for free. It's just fun getting to know the people over here! So today, me and one other girl went over to her house (or rather her shop, people in Thailand live in their shops, and just sleeping in the back rooms) and just got to sit down and ask her questions about her life and she asked us things. it was really fun! Her name is Nattida. She is fourteen and wants to travel, but is still in school and working on passing her exams. I wish I was as smart as her when I was fourteen. Her mom was so sweet, while we there, she ordered us chacio ban or green tea which is really popular here. I personally think it tastes like hay haha but it was still really nice of her!
We were talking about all the places in Thailand we have been and all the places we wanted to go, when we got on the subject of Chang Mai and how we have already been there twice and just love it.
Her mom right then and there offers to take us to Chang Mai with them when they go on the 27th. We got really excited and would totally have gone except we realized that's the exact day that we leave for Phuket. People here as so nice, they will literally make huge offers like that like it's no big deal. Well since we couldn't go with them to Chang Mai, they offered to take us out to lunch tomorrow in Phitsanolok which is the next town 45 minutes away that has a massive mall with lots of different types of restaurants. They said they were going to take us out for Japanese so were pretty excited!
After we said goodbye to Nattida, we went home to kick back and get out of the hot sun by watching some Chuck. yup, were completely addicted to that TV show. I'm pretty sure we have finished 3 seasons in about 1 and a half weeks. After we had successfully watched another 3 or so shows, it was off to the clinic for the fitting of our traditional Thai dresses we are renting for the wedding of our friends!
In case I haven't mentioned it, we met a couple here at the beginning of the semester, purely on the fact that the husband was white so we tried talking to him and were so happy to find out that he spoke english. He is actually from Georgia and moved here with a couple friends, has been living in Thailand for four years and it's where he met his wife. They are getting married this weekend and they invited us down to Bangkok for their wedding! It's like a real Thai wedding so we get to wear the beautiful clothes and everything! We are so excited and so happy for our new friends. It's going to be such a great experience to see a real Thai wedding and be in the audience and be a part of it! We will even be in their wedding slideshow since we got a picture with them the other week when we went out to dinner so it's like were really friends and not just a group of girls they met and went out to dinner with a couple times haha. (That's what its really like if you didn't catch that, but they are just so friendly and just so thai, that they invited us to their wedding after like the second time of seeing us around town, that's just how Thai people are, and we, foreigners, willing to do just about anything, are jumping at the opportunity!)
So at the fitting, we all got individual dresses with our own unique color schemes. Mine is Dark purple and gold. Wait till you see the pictures, I am so excited! The other girls' dresses are so pretty as well! We have a red one, Red green and gold, blue, Pink, and Cream and gold. We are going to look great! This will be like the first time in 2 months we will get to do our hair and makeup for some reason! There is literally no point to doing your hair and makeup here because it's just so hot and you get so sweaty. After the fitting, we rode back home, worked out (I am on the second official week of Insanity and me knee is still holding up pretty well so I'm hopeful), took a long shower and by that time, the favorite part of my day had started. The part where we could turn on the AC. We can turn on the AC in our room from 7PM to 7AM. It is miserably hot here, have I mentioned that much?
Well, this became much longer than I thought it would. But anyways, that's just a day in the life of Charlotte, living the life over here, loving every second, and feeling more and more blessed with everyday that goes by here. Not only for my home back home and the things that we enjoy there, but for the opportunities that are presented here daily for me to learn, appriciate things more, and just have a darn good time!
Super Smile!
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