How do you say_______ in Thai?!

Oh what a day, what a wonderful day! We moved into our studio apartment this morning--the snazzy Huay Kaew Residence. We moved into the same building as our friend Keely, but unlucky for us she's moving within the next week or so to a house on the other side of town. Rent is $165 a month and internet is $6 a month. We went to the supermarket to stock up on some edibles and did you know that eating in is more expensive than eating out in this country? For the sake of our bank accounts we HAVE to eat out. A can of lentils cost $2.50. We ate dinner at the Chiang Mai Coca and had vegetarian green curry with rice, vegetarian fried rice and 2 lemon drinks for $2.50. Hmmm, a can of lentils or a feast?

I start my Thai classes at the American University Alumni Language Centre tomorrow. That's pretty exciting because pretty soon I can stop going around speaking English to everyone as if I were in America or something. Luckily enough a fair amount of English is spoken in Chiang Mai--just enough to rip you off for riding the song taews (red pickup trucks with covered cargo areas that serve as passenger cabins).



I had a taro bun for dessert from some convenience shop. It cost 5 baht, which is 12 cents. I ate it while using internet at this extremely slow internet cafe that charges 20 bath for one hour--that's 50 cents.

Ahhh, the trials and tribulations of living in a foreign country where you have no idea what's being said around you. Gotta love it.