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Hello, my name is Sean and I have been in Thailand for 12
days now. I am here for one year as an AFS exchange student and my
first impressions have been very good and a little scary when I look
at the electrical systems. It is not the same as my home country of
New Zealand. Anyway, I am hoping to write a regular spot here so
that people can see how my time in Thailand is going.
I spent
the first 10 days in Bangkok. For the first 3 days I stayed with
this years AFS group to Thailand in a hotel called Rama Gardens. For
the next 7 days I stayed in an apartment by myself. My host brother
(Pee Kung) and two sisters (Pee Sai and Pee Kwang) were in an
apartment downstairs, my host Mum joined us late the first night.
With my host family I ate a combination of Western and Thai Food.
Thai food is really good.
My host
family took me to a drive through zoo which was really fun. I took
some really good photos of all the animals. My host family also took
me to a Crocodile zoo and farm which had more than just crocodiles.
I got my photo taken with a tiger and saw an awesome crocodile show.
I was in
Bangkok for Songkran, an annual Thai festival and also the world's
biggest water fight! I went through Khao Sarn Road with my host
family and 3 friends, we all got really wet, but it was ok because I
had a water gun to shoot back at people.
So far I
have had a really good time in Thailand and look forward to the rest
of the year.
I have
been in Thailand for just over 1 month now.
Today is
the first day of school and assembly was quite painful for me as my
legs were hurting from all the sitting on the hard concrete.
I haven’t
done much of anything yet because I have mostly stayed at Ajarn
Mayuree’s house with her son Op. He doesn’t do much .., all he does
is watch TV and sleep, so I have recently watched loads and loads of
movies.
Right now
my Khun Mae, Ajarn Mayuree is in Bangkok and I'm not sure when she
will be back, so right now I am missing her a little.
I went on
an English Program trip to Kanom beach which was good fun except
that I couldn’t run very fast, or stay longer in the water to beat
up Ajarn Thomas, because of a very painful leg. I also did my school
HAKA for everyone on the beach which I thought I did really badly
but everyone else thought it was ok.
I have
been to school quite a lot of times during the school break which is
interesting because I would never go to my school in New Zealand
during the school holidays. Thailand seems so different.
I haven’t
learnt as much Thai as I thought. It is a very difficult language to
learn as it is no relation to my normal language of English. I
would have thought by now I would be quite good but unfortunately
I'm not. However, now that school has started I’m looking forward to
learning to read, write and speak Thai. |
