Missing: One Set Of Ankles. Reward Offered.

Ok before I start getting into what I’ve been up to for the past few days, I need to ask if anyone has seen my ankles?? They’ve been M.I.A since the second day I was here. Now instead I have cankles. Coupled with my pasty white skin and searing red sunburn, this does not make for a terribly attractive Sharna. So if you have seen said ankles, please let me know ASAP!

We had our Orientation Day on Monday, which was as you’d expect any university orientation day to be. We selected classes, had a “survival” Thai lesson (I’m so mad that I can’t take a Thai language class and get credit for it at Adelaide!), bought our Mahidol Uni belts and pins (yes, that’s right.), had a buffet lunch and got a tour of the campus. Well, some of it anyway. It’s actually so big they have these little tram things to take you from one building to the other… And they have so many clubs that you can join! I’m thinking I may need to join the “Volunteer Club”! It’s an entire club based on volunteer work in rural kinds of areas in Thailand!

Monday night a group of us went to an Indian restaurant in Bangkok, thanks to Wil one of the guys who live in our dorm who is actually from Thailand. It was freaking amazing. Fantastic food, including chocolate naan, apple flavoured sheesha and then jelly shots in syringes! Not to mention the restaurant itself was so cool and they had Jenga and Connect 4 on the tables!

Today (Tuesday) all of the international students went on a field trip to the Ancient City, which is a huge area of land with replicas of temples, monuments etc from all over Thailand, which we thought was a completely random idea. It turned out to be pretty cool though, especially when we figured out that one of the temple things was used for the final catwalk in America’s Next Top Model, season 6! There were also a ton of Thai school kids at the City who found us “farang” (foreigners) to be highly entertaining. They kept waving and laughing at us. Now, those who know me know that I do not like children. Ever. I just don’t. But I wanted to take some of these one’s home! They kept asking my name and telling me I was beautiful! Certainly good for the ego. I think there is a distinct possibility that I was the whitest person they had ever met, which might explain their fascination. Suffice to say that after a whole day in the sun (including another awesome buffet lunch. I’m going to get so fat here) I got burnt. Again. It’s not too bad though and I think I should expect a lot more cases of sunburn over the next few months.

Tomorrow we’re off to Bangkok to buy our school uniforms (I can hear you all giggling from here) and a whole bunch of us are going to spend a few days at the beach at Hua Hin before classes start so we’re catching a bus down there on Thursday!!

Hope everyone back at home is missing me as much as I miss them!!! (This, admittedly at times, is not much. I’m having way too much fun!)

Hugs and love xoxo