Today I woke up 1.5 hours before my alarm because there was a loud roar that sounded like a waterfall. Nope, just rain on my roof. Welcome to the rainy season! So far I have managed to avoid the rain, because it either rains at night when I am sleeping or when I am at work, inside my office. Two nights ago it caught me on my walk home from grabbing dinner and it was one of those moments where you are like, "Oh, it is just sprinkling and I can already my flat." Which soon deteriorates to "Even though this shirt isn't white, if I get soaked all the way through they are going to give me such a big talking to at work tomorrow..." Oh, the rainy season.
I also walked into my bathroom and said, "Why hello there!" And that was not directed at Jeremy, Pascal or Mephistopheles, but a lovely roach which I sprayed with my lavender bugspray. I then watch to make sure the bugspray is working (I have not had any roaches before) and then I leave to finish getting ready. I come back and a roach is flying around the bathroom! What! I mean I was just going over in my head how bugspray messes up calcium channels, making it impossible to move; how is this thing able to fly? Well, my curiosity was peaked and I looked in the bathroom again. Two roaches does explain the situation, now doesn't it? But yep, no screaming or running away, just another day in the life of my bathroom. Week two in the war to take my bathroom back from the wilderness.
Oh other little things. The police men here are kind of super scary. They are all stiff and they just bark orders if they talk at all and their uniforms are kind of scary too. Here, the police and the military are one and the same and this man works at the crosswalk to my school. And other tidbits I forgot to mention. One night in Lampang five of us took a taxi which is just a truck with a covered back that has two benches and is super tiny. And we were coming back from somewhere....and we had to get out of this parking garage and up this super steep hill. The taxi went up.....and down......up and down....up....almost.....and down all about 15 times before we made it out. Those of us in the back were sure we were about to fall out or were going to be stuck down in the parking garage. But it was really funny and even the driver laughed with us.
Last night I met a new friend who speaks good English and faster English than many of the people who speak English in Thailand. She studied in the U.S. and went to a University that is associated with our organization. So that was super cool and she took me to a place with PASTA. I had noodles in cheese sauce (Thai interpretation of course) but it was magnificent. Then today, I was contemplating not going to 7-11 because I was not very hungry but I am so pleased that I did. As I was checking out and paying for my food, a guy walks in and immediately go, "farang?" In my head. So this is how that interaction went. Looking back on it, I think it is quite humorous. I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at him. He looked at me. "Do you speak English?" I asked. "Yes." "Oh hallelujah." We then quickly did the names, where ya from, school we taught at and swapped numbers since we both had to get to work. So I has a friend!!!!!!!! All the teachers at the school spent the morning laughing at how happy I was. I even got eight classes worth of lesson plans done. Couldn't force myself through my final, last lesson plan but I have until next Wed technically. And tomorrow is Whai Khor or teacher appreciation day. I have to dress up polite and the students give all the teachers flowers, small gifts and malais lol. Just like when I (farang) eat guavas (also farang), everyone thinks it is funny that tomorrow I (Malai) will get flower necklaces (malai). That is all for now :)
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