I know This post is very late in coming! I apologize but I have been terribly busy the past few weeks. My life in Thailand has started to have some routine to it, but it is still an adventure with new experiences everyday. This week is my fourth week at Kanthalak Wittaya School. I love it there! I am in class M. 5.1. The grades are all different here and very confusing I still dont understand it myself. But grade 5 is the equivalent of junior year and each grade has a certain number of classes with the same students in each class I am in class 1. I am the most popular kid in school! The first weeks of school students would literally stop what they were doing to stare at me. They have become more used to me know but I am still very popular and everyone stares at me tells me I'm so beautiful.  There is only one other white student at my school of 4,000. Her name is Vivian and she's from South Africa but she isn't an exchange student she actually moved to Kantharalak. She's younger than me so I've talked to her but she hasn't had quite the same experiences as me.

 Here's a brief outline of a usual day. I wake up at about 7 o' clock, get ready for school and eat breakfast. They have school uniforms at every school around the entire country and they are all pretty much the same a long blue skirt a white button up blouse and mary Jane shoes, boys uniforms are pretty much the same just shorts instead of a skirt and tennis shoes. We have one day a week where we wear our sports uniforms.msports uniforms are sweatpants and a different colored shirt depending on your grade, grades 1, 2 and 3 wear yellow and 4, 5 and 6 wear blue. Around 7:45 I leave for school. Pinot, who works for my host dad in his clinic, usually takes me on the motorcycle. My school isn't very far away about 2 miles or so and eventually I might walk to school with some of my friends who live near me. In the mornings, at school, we line up by class and sing the national anthem and listen to announcements. After the announcements I have various classes  until 12 o' clock which is when lunch starts. All my classes are in Thai so I have no idea what's happening but I usually sit in the back and talk to friends or sleep. Next week during English class I will have Thai class which I'm excited for! The language is so hard and I would love to have some actual instruction on it. I buy my lunch at school. Everyday I have either rice or noodles which costs me 20 baht then I get either a water for juice for 7 baht. There is about 30 baht to the dollar! Everything is so cheap here it's awesome! Me and my friends eat lunch in the canteen then go back to class to hang out until 1 or whenever the teacher gets there to start class. School ends at 3:45 and I go home around 4. Sometimes I'll stay later to hang out with friends. When I hang out with friend Iusually just sit and annoy them while they try and do homework :) Depending on the weather either Pinot picks me up on the motorcycle or my host mom picks me up in the car. When I get back to the clinic I have a snack then take a shower and change. We eat dinner at my host moms parents house everyday at about 7:30. My host grandma, Amma, always cooks some delicious homemade Thai food. That's a pretty typical day but definitely not everyday is like that! Everyday is still pretty different. 

When I told people I was going to be spending a year in Thailand the number one question I got asked was, "Why did you choose Thailand?", and I always gave some vague answer about hearing what a wonderful place it was and how everyone had been there had loved it. But truthfully I didn't really know why I chose Thailand and since I didn't really know why I had chosen this country I obviously had doubts about coming. But now I have been here for 4 weeks and I can say with absolute certainty I still don't know why I chose Thailand but I already never want to leave this amazing place! I am so happy here and honestly I am not homesick at all. Well that's not true sometimes I'll miss my family or the weather in Oregon or my friends. But I have a wonderful family here too (they are constantly telling me that i am they're daughter and they will always be there for me) and the most amazing friends I could have asked for! 

Oh and I'm trying to put pictures on Facebook but have been having some technical difficulties and it takes forever to load them onto my blog. I'll keep you all posted about where I end up putting them!