Arrival in Singburi

okay i'm back! so we took a bus to singburi, which is where we are going to be for the next 4 weeks for training. we arrive at our ecohouse, to find that we have a bunkbed sort of setup, no A/C, (just fans), and a few little friends who we presumed would be staying with us for the duration of our time there! our new little friends were some cute little green geckos! at first we were scared of them....because they are such quick little devils! but i'm told that they eat bugs and such....and i realize that there is no way they can hurt me! so, i think i can handle some geckos. now snakes or big spiders? then i have issues!

cailin and i were a bit confused as to why there weren't alot of people around. where were the other volunteers? over the past 36 hours, there have been more people to arrive, but we have realized that we are the only people here that are teaching...and the only ones that are staying a year. everyone else is only there for a few weeks and they are almost all from sweden! so many there will be alot more young people when we get to the school we are teaching at? who knows. frustrating though.

so our first afternoon at our new location....i almost cracked! truly. i was so hot and sweating so much....i thought to myself...what the fuzz am i doing here! i'll take 2 feet of snow any day!!! (someone who is reading this that will see my dear father....please tell him not to complain about the snow....because at least he knows the snow will disperse....this hot weather never leaves!!). so, there i lay in my new bed....with the fan blowing on me....but i'm still so hot...and sweating so much! we decide to take a walk to this little store with an internet place that is 2 blocks away. i asked the people at the counter, (who speak basically no english), for a mosquito net. they don't understand. there bedroom was right behind the counter so i walked over and tugged on their net. they understood. the lady pulls out this beauteous turquoise green net....i said, i'll take it!

 i also stocked up on some bug spray. the mosquitos aren't bad during the day because it's so hot...but i guess once it cools off a big in the late afternoon early evening, they come out with a vengence! the one girl who had been here for a few weeks said she had to go to the hospital for a week and a half because of so many bites. excellent. sign me up! oh, and we only have cold water for our showers....but you could probably guess from my earlier statements about being extremely hot and sweaty...that i really don't mind the cold showers! i actually quite enjoy them!