Orientation

Thursday morning I met up with 11 other students from Chiang Mai and we took a party bus to our orientation. It was all girls and one boy from Colorado. It was so much fun and then we got there and it got even better. First we had lunch and got to meet everyone else. Then we had to introduce ourselves in Thai which was nerve racking but I made it through it. The first night after dinner we learned more Thai dancing and then we plugged in our Ipod's to the speakers and had our own dance. After we ended at about 11 we all met outside our room and talked til about 12 when the head of the YE's came and told us to go to bed. The next morning we got up and had lots of classes with the two cutest Thai teachers ever. We even had them dancing to our American, and Latino music. Some of the Mexicans taught us how to salsa which was a lot of fun. There are 31 exchange students in our district and I'm so glad that we all get along really well. The third night we transferred hotels and went into the city on a big open air bus which was really fun and we went to a famous temple and out to dinner and to the night market there. The only thing I found at the night market was the cutest puppy that I could have bought for 50 dollars. I didn't think my host mother would appreciate it, I still want it though. We came back to the hotel for karaoke, which was very interesting and we had a late night. We learned more about the trips we will be taking and I'm so excited for the southern trip. It will be 10 days and we will be traveling with the outbounds going to our countries!! They also said if we were good they'd try to schedule the trip in December so we would all be together for Christmas which would help us all stay less homesick. Since they don't celebrate Christmas here. It was so much fun and I can't wait to meet up with them next month for the Rotary Youth Leadership Camp and the Central Trip to Bangkok!