My day in Mae Sai

So we left at about ten for Mae Sai. My third host mother and her mom took me. We stopped for lunch once we got there and had Cow-Soi. A noodle soup made with coconut milk it was my first time eating this famous food of Northern Thailand. To my suprise it was actually very good and we got 5 dishes for 3 dollars, it still seems to amaze me. After eating her dish my third host mother ordered just regular Thai Noodles. I guess I was staring at the purple chunks weird because she asked if I liked them and I said no. She then told me that they were congealed chicken blood and then proceeded to put one in her mouth. I just about lost my lunch right then and there. Anyways after lunch she took me for ice cream at Swensen's the Thai equivalent of Hagen Dagz. It was delicious but I'm not an ice cream person and after I ate my two scoops of chocolate peanut butter ice cream I saw mango sorbet and wished I'd had that instead. After all this we went to get my visa taken care of which turned into a mess. We had to cross this bridge over the highway three times to go get different pages of my passport copied and then the letters from the school were addressed to Chiang Mai. Which is where we went the first time and then they told us Phayao province has to go to Mae Sai. So we had to call the school and eventually they let us finish it and we promised to have the school fax over the letters. What should have taken fifteen minutes took 3 hours. After that we stopped for business stuff and then stopped at the bad equivalent of a Costco. My host grandma is having 9 monks over tomorrow morning and feeding them. I just learned that they only eat one meal a day. So she bought tons of fruit and fish to feed them. I'm invited to go but it's at like five in the morning, I'll see if I can get up for it. It doesn't help that my host mother left this morning for 15 days of meditation at the temple. She didn't tell me until this morning and now I'm kinda doing my own thing. Eating whatever the maid makes for dinner...could be interesting. I am walking to my third host mothers house after school and hanging here until aerobics. She will take me to aerobics and then take me home.
Anyways after all this yesterday we came home and went to a restaurant in town and had a delicious meal where my third host mother told me that she's allergic to the cold. (Is that even possible?) During Thai lessons today I witnessed for the 5th time a teacher hitting kids with a ruler and books and her hand. It's so weird if this happened in the US a teacher would be fired, I feel like I'm sitting and observing Matilda from the movie. Anyways that pretty much does it for what's going on in Dacotah Land.


Until Later, Dacotah Smith