So this is just a short post. We went into town today to pick up Namwarns friends (this post is out of order, it is supposed to go before the temple and before the beach day, but I didn't see the pictures till after I had posted the other two. Anyways. We went into Surat Thani and toured around, going to a park where we fed the pigeons and Koy fish, and we ended up at the International Rotary Hotel. That's not the real name, but it was for international Rotarians, and it had a bunch of Rotary flags.
While we were here I met Manit W. The head of District 3330. He told me some of the ground rules, and informed me that we would have an orientation the first weekend of September, after the last exchange student arrived. Some of the rules he told me were: No Drinking, No Driving, No Dating, No Drugs. Don't spend too much time on the internet, because every hour you spend on the internet, is an hour that you aren't being involved with your family, and there were a few more, but they were minor and I don't actually remember them (hehe oops).
Manit is the one on my left, and the two men on my right are ex-head district people. They were all very nice, and spoke pretty good English. I am finding it very hard to understand some peoples English because its broken (half Thai, half English), and they have an accent, so I can't wait to learn the language so I don't have to struggle to understand what people are saying.
This is Boom, Myself, and Keem feeding the pigeons. We bought some bird food and then just threw it at them. There were lots of them, and it was pretty amusing to hear the girls shriek everytime a bird flew too close to them. I had a blast that day, and even though none of them spoke English (none of the friends-Boom, Keem, or Pitt, Nook and Namwarn spoke English) we found other ways to communicate, mostly with hand guestures.
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