Yes, yes, I know I've been away. I have been apartment searching, which I'll tell you about in another post, but until then here's an update from the last few days.
So Wed night, G called me saying that she was really craving some carrot cake and would I be interested in an adventure to go find some? Being up for an adventure of any sort I said yes and off we went! We decided that our best bet would be to walk in the direction of Tesco (a Thai version of Wal-Mart? I think that's the best way to describe it) and hopefully we'd find some at a bakery on the way. Well, we stopped in 3 bakeries before getting to Tesco but none of them had carrot cake. The last bakery we went into did have some yummy looking things though... But anyway, we made our way to Tesco but despite having more variety in their baked goods than the bakeries we still didn't find any carrot cake :( Now, I think the coolest thing about Tesco is that instead of a normal escalator it has like a ramp escalator thing. Every time I go on it I think "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" (even though it isn't going that fast). So on our way down the ramp escalator thing (because the grocery part of the store is on the lower level) we saw some cushion/pillows that G thought would work really well in the new apartment she's getting. So after our disappointment with the carrot cake we went over to take a closer look at the cushions and they were on sale! The sign said 2 "something in Thai" 1 so we thought they might be two for the price of one so we picked up several pillows and went to check out. At the check-out the woman said they weren't on sale but had another sales associate go down to check. When she came back she said that the sale was buy 2 get 1 free so we went down to get one more pillow and then went to check out again. As we're finishing checking out, G notices that the bill is more than she had calculated in her head (and at 200 B each, its not hard to calculate the price for 6 pillows) so she asks why its more money. After much futzing around the sales people (cause I think there were like 3 ladies helping us at this point) figured out that the orange pillows were not on sale despite being identical to the others in shape, size, and design and being on the sale shelves. Anyway, some more futzing later (language differences + Thai people trying to please you = futzing) we left Tesco sans carrot cake and cushions. "But what about the cream puffs?!?!?!" you ask? Well we went back to that third bakery and found ourselves buying dinner (a chicken thing) and as we were paying we saw some cream puffs and decided to indulge. Plus, by talking about the cream puffs there's alliteration!
School went well both Thursday and Friday. I'm giving my first test on Tuesday so I played a review game in all of my classes which was fun for them and I told them I was using questions from the test so they were pretty attentive. We played the game both days because I had so many review questions that we didn't get through all of them in one day. The game also helped me pinpoint the areas that I really need to go over on Monday, so that was helpful.
Thursday night, G and I were supposed to go to a birthday party for one of her students but unfortunately because of some miss communication we didn't get to go :( I was kind of sad about it, but, on the upside we did go see an apartment for me. Actually, it was courtesy of the coffee shop owner who we saw on Tuesday! He not only found me this place but picked us up so that we could go look at it and then translated for us (well, more me than G, but still). It was so nice of him! We offered to take him out to dinner as a thank you but he was busy so it'll have to wait until next week.
Friday morning it rained. This is only an exciting story because when I looked out my window, I saw that it was raining, but it wasn't pouring so I thought I'd be fine walking to school with an umbrella. Well, I was fine until I got to the road which the school is on which was completely flooded. But hey, a little water never hurt anyone. So I started walking through the flood which at most points was mid-shin level but whenever a car went by the water would rush up to my knees. So I'm trying to hold my skirt and my umbrella and all of these cars are passing me by and of course they have kids in them! I know it was entertaining for the kids to see the farang (foreign) teacher walking through the flood like I was and while I wish I could have looked a little more dignified it was all ok in the end. Here are some pictures of the street on a normal day and what it looked like with the flood.
So Wed night, G called me saying that she was really craving some carrot cake and would I be interested in an adventure to go find some? Being up for an adventure of any sort I said yes and off we went! We decided that our best bet would be to walk in the direction of Tesco (a Thai version of Wal-Mart? I think that's the best way to describe it) and hopefully we'd find some at a bakery on the way. Well, we stopped in 3 bakeries before getting to Tesco but none of them had carrot cake. The last bakery we went into did have some yummy looking things though... But anyway, we made our way to Tesco but despite having more variety in their baked goods than the bakeries we still didn't find any carrot cake :( Now, I think the coolest thing about Tesco is that instead of a normal escalator it has like a ramp escalator thing. Every time I go on it I think "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" (even though it isn't going that fast). So on our way down the ramp escalator thing (because the grocery part of the store is on the lower level) we saw some cushion/pillows that G thought would work really well in the new apartment she's getting. So after our disappointment with the carrot cake we went over to take a closer look at the cushions and they were on sale! The sign said 2 "something in Thai" 1 so we thought they might be two for the price of one so we picked up several pillows and went to check out. At the check-out the woman said they weren't on sale but had another sales associate go down to check. When she came back she said that the sale was buy 2 get 1 free so we went down to get one more pillow and then went to check out again. As we're finishing checking out, G notices that the bill is more than she had calculated in her head (and at 200 B each, its not hard to calculate the price for 6 pillows) so she asks why its more money. After much futzing around the sales people (cause I think there were like 3 ladies helping us at this point) figured out that the orange pillows were not on sale despite being identical to the others in shape, size, and design and being on the sale shelves. Anyway, some more futzing later (language differences + Thai people trying to please you = futzing) we left Tesco sans carrot cake and cushions. "But what about the cream puffs?!?!?!" you ask? Well we went back to that third bakery and found ourselves buying dinner (a chicken thing) and as we were paying we saw some cream puffs and decided to indulge. Plus, by talking about the cream puffs there's alliteration!
School went well both Thursday and Friday. I'm giving my first test on Tuesday so I played a review game in all of my classes which was fun for them and I told them I was using questions from the test so they were pretty attentive. We played the game both days because I had so many review questions that we didn't get through all of them in one day. The game also helped me pinpoint the areas that I really need to go over on Monday, so that was helpful.
Thursday night, G and I were supposed to go to a birthday party for one of her students but unfortunately because of some miss communication we didn't get to go :( I was kind of sad about it, but, on the upside we did go see an apartment for me. Actually, it was courtesy of the coffee shop owner who we saw on Tuesday! He not only found me this place but picked us up so that we could go look at it and then translated for us (well, more me than G, but still). It was so nice of him! We offered to take him out to dinner as a thank you but he was busy so it'll have to wait until next week.
Friday morning it rained. This is only an exciting story because when I looked out my window, I saw that it was raining, but it wasn't pouring so I thought I'd be fine walking to school with an umbrella. Well, I was fine until I got to the road which the school is on which was completely flooded. But hey, a little water never hurt anyone. So I started walking through the flood which at most points was mid-shin level but whenever a car went by the water would rush up to my knees. So I'm trying to hold my skirt and my umbrella and all of these cars are passing me by and of course they have kids in them! I know it was entertaining for the kids to see the farang (foreign) teacher walking through the flood like I was and while I wish I could have looked a little more dignified it was all ok in the end. Here are some pictures of the street on a normal day and what it looked like with the flood.
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| Road on a normal day |
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| Road Flooded |
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