Thai for Travellers

I got over my Bali obsession and have gotten back to thinking about Thailand. I signed up for a class called Thai for Travellers which starts in October and am pretty excited about that...I've been meaning to sign up for a language class since February, but it was meant to be in either French or Portuguese. Not Thai!

I thought Thailand was place that only my friend Keely would go to. Keely, the lovely girl to the left, is a friend we met when we stuidied in Sevilla. She's was a religion studies major at Yale who spent last summer in Thailand in a Budhist monastary doing research and has big red curly hair and is from South Carolina. Those of you who were adventurous enough to come to our fabulous GATAG (going away to australia and graduation) had the pleaseure of meeting her, ahem. Anyhow, she is moving to Chiang Mai in September, which is the whole reason we're even going to Thailand- the land of smiles apparently. I've never been to Asia before so this trip should be interesting at least.

I've been looking for serviced apartments we can stay in for the 2 months we will be in Chiang Mai and I've found a few and they are really, really nice. Well nice is an inappropriate word to use. You can stay in a luxurious condo for about $400 per month. Just imagine what you could pay if you stay in a non-serviced student-style apartment with crappy, but decent furniture.

I wish we could go to Thailand tomorrow. (sigh)