And the tales from Thailand begin...

Hello:) This is my first post which is quite frankly about 2 months late. I meant to start this when I first arrived in Thailand but those 2 months have flown by, so here I am on this sunny 'winter' day finally beginning my tales from Thailand. Since I already have so much to say, I will go back in time and share stories and thoughts from the last 2 months as well as updating with new happenings.

So first of all I will give a quick overview of my situation in Thailand. I am currently studying Thai at Leeds, so this is my second year in which I'm studying Thai at Chiang Mai university! I am living in accommodation called Baan Thai. It is ok as my room is a decent size and I have a beautiful view of the mountains. Plus I have a fabulous huge pool which I pretend is my own as it is empty most of the time except some pervy men which lurk. (Yes a weird Japanese man did try to chat me up by telling me I had 'nice proportions'!!!) On the downside though my accommodation is rather boring, like a hotel, and is full of retired male 'ฝรั่ง' ('fa-rangs'= Thai word for foreigner) which have nothing better to do than lurk and bring young Thai girls back home. Oh the joys of Thailand!!!

So yes that's Baan Thai so a quick overview on my day so far...

Today I started uni like most mornings at 8:30 so I hopped my moped which I must add I am growing to hate more and more each day! I bought a secondhand one...why oh why? So its not beautiful but instead a standard boring light blue one when really I should be driving on a beautiful brown one with cream leather!

Anyways so had a two our Thai class which went OK but I really dislike speaking in class...I'm starting to get better with strangers but in such a small class I feel like its an exam every time.

So yes so during the class we were told that we should go outside and 'play games' with the Thai students...this is Thailand all over...no explanation:)

So we were taken over to this group of psychology students and were told to draw a man and a woman. After doing this the psychology students were able to tell us about ourselves and how they could read us from two simple drawings. The description of me was nearly 100% accurate which was impressive but also a bit freaky...

After then doing an IQ test and having lunch, I went to pool for a couple of hours:) As per usual it was empty (except the weird Japanese man sunbathing at the side) so I began by doing some การบ้าน 'gan-baan' (Thai word for homework) but the pool was far too tempting so decided to take a little dip in the pool which ended up being a nice long leisurely swim followed by some more gan-baan:)

So that is my day so far minus the boring trip to the laundrette to do my weekly washing:)

I will be posting regularly so you can all follow my Thailand tales with me:)