Khao San Road, Orientation, and Ko Chang, and first day of classes!

Khao San Road:

Khao San Road is perhaps one of the most livliest neighborhoods I've ever been. If you want to have an experience like in the hangover two you go here. In fact most of it was filmed there.  You'll find things that here that you wont see or wont want to see anywhere else: Carts selling fried bugs, copious amounts of prostitution, a large concentration of partying tourists, People offering you to see a ping pong show (I'll let you figure that one out). There was certainly no shortage of alcohol. Everywhere you went someone would try to sell you something. There were even little thai boys and girls offering  to bet 20 baht for a thumb wrestling war. I wouldn't reccomend the bet though, they are abnormally good. All in all everyone should experience here at least once, if only once.

Orientation:

Orientation was decent. We learned a lot about the rules of mahidol and the procedures. There was paperwork to be filled out. However on the bright side I met a lot of new people from all over the world: germany, france, mexico, thailand, america, canada. It was cool to see so many people in the same boat I was. I bought my official Mahidol belt buckle and decided to get another uniform in bangkok rather than the school because of the quality. We learned some basic thai wich for the most part I already knew.

Ko Chang:

On a last minute decision a couple of people decided to visit an island for the rest of our weekend. I am sooooo glad I made the right choice. This weekend was the best few days I've had in thailand thus far. The beaches and sorounding area were gorgeous. The Parties and clubs were sweet. The restaurants were peacfull. It truly did feel like the hangover two when we lost meirko. Turns out he found a thai girl to spend the night with. Another friend ended up passing out in the middle of ocean and two thais had to drag him out lol. The day was perfect. We sat around the beach soaking up the sun and swiming in the riddiculously warm watter. Ohh ya and by the way I got a tatoo! I got it done with a single bamboo needle instead of the gun. It's mai pen rai down my shoulder wich is the common thai saying equivilent to accuna mattata. It is used to resolve disputes and problmes and means no worries.

First Day of classes:

So I had my first day of classes today. It feels so good to finally have a routine. Mainly so I wont spend so much money! Today I had intro to thai language and culture and I had Advanced oral communication. The intro class was cool. I new a ton of people in the class already. We learned a lot of cool new stuff: how to ask and say what you name is, how to ask and tell what you do, how to explain and ask where your from. Advanced oral communication was interesting considering everyone else in the class was thai. The only native english speakers were me and the teacher. Although I have a leg up in this sense it may be more difficult to get around the class concepts becuase I didnt take the prerequisite class. We had to make and present 3 minute speach about something or someone that impacted our lives greatly.