I'm Here!!!

                Well hello everybody! Usually I’ll only be giving updates on the weekends because that’s when we can come to the café that has Wi-Fi, just so you know. I hope that this doesn’t end up being too long, if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, I take no offence. =P

                On the way to Thailand, everything went well. Both of my flights were good and they were pretty much on time. It was about 12:30am when we got to the base, and it turned out to be a bit of an adventure. The girls that picked me up went to show me where my room was, but the girls that were sleeping inside had locked the door for the night. One of the staff told me that she had bunk beds so I could sleep in her room with her. So I carry all my stuff to her room, open the door, turn on the light and lo and behold a bunk bed…. With no mattresses. Long story short, her and I slept on the tile floor together. It made for and interesting night. haha

                The base is nice and everything is really green. Here I was thinking, “Oh if I leave Abbotsford and go to Thailand, I can get away from all the rain and mosquitoes.”…. WRONG! It’s been rainy, rainy, rainy, and although the mosquitoes are smaller, they make you itch just as bad, let me tell you!

                Like most first weeks of school, it’s been pretty low key. We have mostly been talking about culture differences, and rules of the base and rules for living together. We’ve had lots of time to just hang out and get to know each other too. There are a few Americans here, a lady from Chile, a guy from the Ukraine and one other Canadian. The rest of the people here are Thai, but most of them speak pretty good English. There’s a married Thai couple here who have to kids, and oh my goodness are those kids ever cute. One of the kids is Caleb’s age, and the other one is Lily’s age (for those of you who don’t know, those are my sister’s kids) but I love playing with them.

                I haven’t really been homesick at all. I guess sometimes certain things will remind me of certain people and then I’ll kind of miss them, but other than that I’ve pretty much been fine. I will be completely honest though and say that I’m feeling a little bit farm deprived. There is a pig here (her name is Tinkerbelle although she’s a heck of a lot bigger than any fairy I’ve ever seen) and there’s a few chickens running around. Oh and there are some dogs, but they’re always in their cages, except for a little one that’s kind of ugly, so those don’t even count.

                All in all, everything is good, I’m good, the team’s good, the food’s good (most of the time) and everything is going well.

                Talk to ya next time!

Today’s Fun Fact:

We only have one flush toilet, the rest of them you have to dump buckets of water into, and we’re not allowed putting toilet paper in any of them. So all of you with flushing toilets out there, think of me the next time you flush… or don’t, because that’s a little awkward. =P