Night Market and Mall Trip

I’m already starting to get a lot of marking, so it’s getting hard for me to blog, so I’ll try to give one to two updates a week. On Tuesday we went to the night market down the street. It is located right by the university which is down the street. It’s just so crazy that it becomes so lively at night, and then in the day you would never imagine that it was the same place that it was the night before. Eight of us went out for dinner at this little place on the strip before we went exploring. When we get to the restaurant they don’t have pictures on the menu. It’s really hard to eat if you can’t read the menu, or even communicate in the same language. They also put us in this random back room all by ourselves so we couldn’t even try and ask people around us. Luckily a bunch of university students came by and we called them over to see if they could help us. One was really nice about it, and he was so nervous. He was shaking the whole time he was talking to us, and explained that this was the first time that he had communicated with foreigners. We asked him to order us some food and he did quite nicely. We got vegetables and potatoes, and we also asked for Chicken. It took so long for the chicken to come…when it finally did, it was quite the sight. It looked like they had literally slaughtered the thing outside, put it in a pot with some potatoes and cooked everything but actual meat. It was all the feet, neck, insides, head…I’ve seen it before from banquets but everyone was so freaked out, Haha, too funny.


After that we went exploring and I was able to find another pair of cute shoes for 55 kwai, which is like $9. I also bought How to Train your Dragon for 5 kwai. It was a good night. Haha.



The next day we wanted to go to Carrefour to buy some groceries and what not. We shopped in the mall for a bit first. I bought a cute dress to wear to school on my birthday next week for like $6 Cdn, along with some a cheap headband, scarf and hello kitty socks, haha. I also got a nice hello kitty thermos to bring my tea to school. It was also super cheap. I love China for that. Anyways once we went to Carrefour the lines were insane. They went halfway to the back of the store going down every aisle. So, we decided that it was clearly not worth it.



Anyways, I’m starting to get into the rhythm of school. I’ve been running regularly, it’s still hot as ever though. There are also bats in the morning because it’s always dark at the beginning of my run. It’s kind of scary but I’m slowly getting over it, because I know if I don’t go running in the morning I will not do it. The school days are long, but I’m starting to remember why I entered this profession in the first place. The kids are finally starting to warm up to me and I’ve been having fun in class. They start to get my sarcasm and I’m able to make them laugh, which last week I thought would be next to impossible. I know that by the end of the year I’m going to love it here for that fact.



Clubs start next week and we already have 25 girls signed up to join cheerleading. I think it will be really fun. Apparently last year the dance team was really popular. Hopefully these girls know what they’re getting into, and we won’t just be jumping up and down waving our arms around in the air.



Tomorrow is Friday, and I can’t believe that we’ve been here for three weeks now. I think the time is really going to fly by. I know that next week is going to be a tough one for me though. I know not being home on my birthday is going to be rough. I know I’m old, but birthdays have always been so fun for me, especially because of sharing it with Dawn all the time. Just seems like a big family thing that I am going to miss. Hopefully I won’t be too bad, since I am surrounded by so many people.



I’ll write another update at the end of the weekend. We have a masquerade to go to tomorrow, so we’ll see where that takes us :s.