Today did some resource development in the office for a few hours in the morning. All the classes were cancelled; so all the indoor were around. When we woke up, the rain was coming down pretty hard, but as we were working in the office, it just poured! We eventually looked up from our work and we saw that all of the walkways around us were totally flooded and there was virtually no separation between the ponds anymore!
The bridge flooding.
The pond flooding.
The ponds flooding.
Resource Development.
So needless to say, I wasn’t going anywhere! Chelsea brought be back some lunch though when they all left to get food. And I’m glad she did because it was curry with noodles today, and it was fantastic!
- Lunch!
The rest of the day was quite boring and relaxing. I stayed off off my foot as much as I could, which ended up being quite a lot, since I just sat in the office on my computer and reading.
I did finish the Alchemist late last night. It was a really great book. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. I read it on my dad’s nook, but I know for sure I want to get a hard copy when I get home so that I can read it again and again. I suggest to anyone who hasn’t read it, to read it. It’s a really quick read but you can get so much out of it. It’s a book about following your dreams and it’s ironic that it came to me when it did. The story really applied to my life right now as I’m trying to figure out what to do with my life after I graduate next may. Stacy and I had been having conversations about that for several nights before I started the book and after having read the authors note before the book, I knew there was a reason that I had been introduced to the book when I did.
After dinner, because everyone was incredibly bored, a bunch of us ordered a Songtau to go into town for a few hours. I was originally not going to go, because we had already planned to go Thursday night, but I had nothing else to do, and I’m only in Chiang Rai for a few more days, so I hopped in!
Bakery Stacy and I checked out.
I walked around with Stacy while we were there and after she got a haircut, we walked to the market to get some food and do some shopping! I got my now favorite Thai dish, Chicken and Cashew with rice. It was one of the dishes I made in the cooking class and I just loved it. So I got it from one of the street stalls and again, it was fantastic! It isn’t a spicy dish, it has a sort of brown sauce with it, although it’s not soupy at all. There are onions, mini corns, peppers, chicken, and cashews. Its just such a savory dish!
Stacy eating her Pad Thai.
Food Stalls.
While we were eating, Robert walked past us and stopped to talk to us. He had went into town the day before and checked into a guesthouse and hadn’t come back yet. No one really knew what was going on with him at Mirror. When Adrianne went to the hospital Wednesday morning to get the results of her knee exam, he hadn’t shown. So I was a bit upset with him still and Stacy did a majority of the talking to him. Then he left and went to eat. He had said that he had a stomach bug and had been just sleeping for the past 2 days and hadn’t been eating anything so he ventured out to get something in his stomach. He also said he went to the hospital and the scrapes on his leg from the accident had become infected.
When we had finished eating and were walking out, I saw him sitting alone eating, just looking sad and I felt so bad for him. So I grabbed Stacy and we went to talk to him. Even though he hasn’t exactly had the best attitude here, he still doesn’t deserve to feel alone in a foreign country, sick and with an infected wound. If we showed him some support, hopefully he would be able to take some good out of this experience. So we stood and talked to him for a little while, checking if he was okay and seeing if we could do anything. We encouraged him to come back to Mirror where people would take care of him and make sure he was okay. He said he was going to try and come back Thursday afternoon, so hopefully we’ll see him get back safely.
We went to Swenson’s after to get ice cream sundaes and inside, Brittany, Steph, and Adrianne were already sitting and eating. Great minds think alike. After out brownie sundaes we made our way back to the Songtau to head back to Mirror.
At Mirror, as planned, we watched Shutter Island in the orientation building. There were a few parts in which I got really jumpy and screamed, but for the most part I was okay during it. It was a really excellent movie. The story was really interesting and kept you thinking. I heard that the book is much better, as usual, and Chelsea read it in one day here, so I plan to read that pretty soon! I guess it’s a real page-turner, and you just want to figure out the mystery, so you get through it pretty quickly.
