8 days

I got on the scales this morning, and i have lost 7kg since i have been here, its amazing what riding a bike for 45 min everyday will do for you. Although having a stomach bug and not being able to eat for a week would do it awell.
Well, i finished my 8 days in a row and im still alive. For some reason i got 6 days straight, and then offered to change my day off so someone could go to the airport. So for 7 of those shifts it was up at 5.30 and off to work on the pushbike and then home again to study for language lessons. i was so tired,, but after sleeping in for 2 days i feel much better.
I think i will finally get to go to the Sunday night markets (for the STET people that the first market we went to) which i am excited about cause it has all Thai prices not Ferlung prices (a ferlung is a white person). There are lots of crafts and food and clothing, but what im really looking for is a bedside lamp that give off lots of light. Hopefully i can get one

First lesson

I had my first thai lesson today with Sompong. She is a lovely lady who has offered to also teach me to cook thai food when i can get myself to her house for lessons. She is also a preacher at one of the churches around town and has also offered to take me to that sometime when i am not working the morning shift. So after my first lesson i can order myself a meal in thai and ask whats what (even if i cant understand the answer). With a bit more practise i can say all that that is.
Today i will be having my first motorbike lesson with Soibhan, the volunteer who is leaving in a few days and selling me her bike.

Loi Krathong

I went to my first buddhist festival on Sunday night, Loi Krathong. The festival was for the sending away of their sins, the float flower arangments down the river and put lanturns into the sky. Fireworks has been going off all weekend because if it aswell, keeping me up late when all i want to do is sleep. Watch all the colourful floats go down the river with their little lite candles and all the huge lanturns float into the sky is an amazing thing, even if your not 100% sure what they are for. I pent my first evening in the markets aswell, but ofcourse with, what the vlunteers have named, the Chiang Mai welcome bug i didnt really feel like shopping. But i must tell you about the Tuktuk we caught home, with its surround sound and bass pumping, dance music making me deaf, it deffinantly was an experiance. Well, till next time