So I made it to Bangkok all right. Our group got in around 3am yesterday, or today technically. The time change is screwing with my head a little. We didn't have time to do much that night, we just got a ride to the AIT campus from some Thai students from the Student Union and were shown our accommodations. My room looks pretty much like an older MSU dorm, except that there's a hose next to the toilet as an alternative to toilet paper. Crazy!
We got a tour of the campus today and then some of the same students who picked us up from the airport took us to Future Park, aka the biggest damn mall I've ever seen in my life. The thing had like five stories of shops with these huge department stores that literally had any consumer good you could possibly need, or at least think you need. It was pretty overwhelming after about four hours.
Buying a phone at the mall was kind of a fiasco. Three of the phone store's workers tried to translate my gestures and confused shrugs while one of our tour guides patiently tried to mediate the situation. I ended up accidentally picking out a phone that costs about $70 and had them set it up with a SIM card before I found that out. The whole process was pretty entertaining though, so it wasn't the worst $7o I ever spent, ha ha.
Tomorrow I have to register and go to an orientation session, followed by our group's first Thai lesson. I think I'll ask the teacher how to ask "how much?" in Thai. Maybe learning the numbers would be good too, ha ha.
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