New School Schedule!

School started up again.
For those of you who didn't know, I haven't had school these past few weeks [if you don't count Muay Thai (M-F @ 5-7 PM) and Fan Dap(Swords, Mondays @ 1-4 PM)]. It was end of term, so no school.
I went back to Aswhiwa [http://www.udvc.ac.th/] on Tuesday in the morning. Unfortunately, when I set my alarm time, I didn't activate the alarm. I woke up naturally about 8 AM, and got to school on time [I don't have class until later anyway, I could have arrived at lunch and be on time]. For those of you going to the site right now, near this particular posting date, you'll find a picture of a jar of some weird substance. That's Pad Thai sauce. On Tuesday, Apinya and I 'tasted' Pad Thai for the school, the students made it with this sauce. It wasn't that bad, actually. Now they're selling a few jars in the cafeteria [a.k.a. "The Canteen"].

I love my new schedule. I really do. Unlike before, I don't have any classes involving me sewing leaves together that dry up by the end of the day, or classes arranging flowers [which I've done since I was little thanks to meh mommy]. I already know how to arrange flowers, I can take another class for something new. The leaves class showed me I really do have a case of clastrophobia; same thing over and over, little room, long periods of time. No, I will not become a factory worker. If you think I'm insane now... [shivers]

Moving on. My class schedule is leisurely and totally me.
Monday. Art class. What time, Monica? After I usually wake up. It begins at 11:00 AM and goes until noon. Then what? I go home. End of the school day for me. Yes, enjoy your wide-eyed-ness. It's about to get better.
Tuesday. Thai cooking class. Time. 8 AM until noon. Then starting after December 15th, I have massage club. I don't know of the times yet, though. End of school.
Wednesday. Sewing @ 9 AM until noon. Lunch. Souvenir making [tons of fun, trust me] @ 1 - 4 PM.
Thursday. Souvenir class @ 9 AM until noon. Lunch. Sewing @ 1 - 4 PM. [Pretty much a flip of Wednesday.]
Friday. Art @ 2 - 4 PM.

Doesn't my class schedule rock your bum? Seriously, man. You have got to love it. Don't forget though: every Monday I have Fan Dap [swords] at 1 PM at Wiitayalai Palaat [Athletics College], and every M-F [except some Thursdays for Rotary] at 5-7 PM I have Muay Thai. Yes, I love my classes.

Ah, then there's my cell phone. It's a little fancier than the one I have in America, really. It has more light settings than my camera [which I need to buy duck tape for, please remind me], can make movies, can ZOOM, has a flash, plays movies, shows pictures, has a paint game, has a few addicting games, has an INFARED TRANSFER SYSTEM - much like our old-school gameboys, for transferring the files you wish to another phone. A computer set-up CD and a memory card for the phone. OH YEAH... and it plays music and came with a pair of headphones/headset for the phone, too. You know that commercial where the guy is dancing listening to his phone then there's a call, the music is put on pause, then when he's done talking, the song plays from where it left off? My phone does that. It has speaker phone, but I have yet to figure out how to work it. It has a front and sub LCD screen. The sub LCD will show a picture of the person who's calling if you take a picture of them [or put it on the card from the computer]. No plans, just buy a phone card, put the number from the card into the phone, send the free SMS to the phone thing, and it banks the Baht into the phone for minutes and text message usages. There's no such thing as overage charges; you just run out of baht, the phone hangs up, you buy another baht card. It's quite lovely, really. I don't know why America doesn't have these things.
In my case, I can give you my cell number, because it will only cost you. [evil laughter].
083-326-4320

I have recently become addicted to a very healthy... drug. Strawberry yogurt.
In America, I hated yogurt and I have no idea why. Over here, I just can't get enough of it. It's the only way to get non-frozen GOOD-TASTING strawberries [There's whole strawberries in here! Squee!], and a delicimous taste. We are usually stocked for my strawberry yogurt needs. We have temporarily run out of milk, however, so I can't eat my corn flakes. [sob]

*takes a bite of her yogurt*

My measurements have visibly gone down, which I am thankful for. Even before Muay Thai, I have lost about 6 - 8 pounds since my arrival. [Yet I have been eating more, how is that possible?] Now I'm taking Muay Thai, and I'm the closest to a flat tummy than I have been since Junior High, maybe before. I wrote down my measurements in a notebook of mine on the 15th, and I'm not going to measure myself again [unless I need to for sewing class] until I leave. Except my weight; I will keep weighing myself. Then again, weight measurements will become rather useless as I proceed to take Muay Thai; you lose weight, then HOPEFULLY you'll gain weight back due to muscle mass. So I wonder how that's going to work out? Oh well. No, I will not become an Olga.

Host grandfather has been in the hospital's ICU for a little while, but he has been transferred to another building, another wing now. He's doing a lot better.

I have recently figured out there's a guy in my Muay Thai class whom I believe likes me... He's cute on my beliefs, and I giggle when I'm around him. Then of course, nearly every day when we work out, he takes his shirt off, because all the guys in the class do that... [cough] what?

I haven't gotten sick [yet]!!! Yay! I've had the occasional tummy mishaps [just nausea feelings that go away after a few hours] due to odd foods. The day I tasted somtam was probably the worst day I've felt icky. Except in the case of muscle pains. I wasn't able to climb in and out of bed without a painful stomache the first couple weeks of Muay Thai. Yes, Muay Thai is challenging. My body loves it, though, and it's a heck of a lot of fun. [except the 1.5 mile run before each class, which will soon become 2 and 3 miles]. Good news though... my minor asthmaticness is [I believe] getting better already. When I started, I could barely do half a lap of jogging without stopping so I wouldn't hyperventilate. Now I jog a full lap, and some extra [somewhat comfortably] without the need to stop. I'm quite proud of myself for being able to do this.

I really don't know what else to put in here...

I'm sewing a kimono bathrobe right now with velvet... turned out to be less than 15 bucks to make. I couldn't find terrycloth... I'll probably make a more bathrobe-like kimono-styled bathrobe later, when I find the right fabric. I have yet to find such stuff. If I cannot, I will use silk.

Oh! I have pictures.

My Rotary Club took me on a tour with the rest of them to different Buddhist temples. Unfortunately, the program I have been using to resize the pictures is no longer on our computer, so when I get a new one on, I'll upload the pictures.

Until then, see ya later!

Oh yeah, and Cake is napping right next to me. She asked me to say "meow" for her.

Monica.