Woooooow! I'M SUVIVING Holy ssshit! However, I'm missing sunglasses, and extra phone chargers that I thought I came with. I wish I brought anti itch cream for bug bites and aloe for sun burns. So, the hotel I've been in, has gotten worse by the second. Or maybe I'm just too set into my American ways. But, the A/C drips water all over the floor and my suitcases, I keep washing my tooth brush with sink water, then have to boil it, (I'll remember not to eventually, right?), the bed has been leaving marks all over my body from the METAL rods in the mattress! You have to use the potty before a shower, because then the toilet is soaked like a baby pool. And their outlets here keep making all of my electronics spark, but they're fine every where else. A cool thing I didn't know, is that Thailand uses American two prong plugs, the voltage is just a little different. Apple is bad ass though, because it converts the voltage through their chargers. Mine just sparked in a freak accident and broke ((((: I finally decided to go out, all by my big girl self, are you proud mom? (; I got a thai sim card, my new number is +66 82 512 5701. It really only works with iMessage, Line or Whatsap. A normal text, costs .11 a message. So down load Line and Whatsap! My line Id is: 06272018, and I can call or text anyone off of it, or whatsap, I think is my American number or user name, MykaylaM. Honestly, I don't even know how to work those. I'm just winging it. APARTMENTS!I went outside right, and crossed the zebra, (white lines across the road, what a clever name) I only almost got hit by a motor cycle, twice. I count that as a win. But I was able to use the train by myself, and see 12 units in a matter of 3 hours. Let me tell you, walking places and being in lobbys or hallways IS HOT AS BALLS. It's crazy, and because water is so unsafe to consume here, most places will offer "drink water", which comes in a little throw away plastic square, with a straw. Almost like a capri sun. All of the apartments are set up the exact same. One might just have a counter in the bathroom, come with an extra or bigger tv, the other one could have a silver of space between the fridge and the wall to store brooms, but in reality, they are all around 30 m of living space, blocked into four rooms; toilet, living, kitchen, bed. THE COST OF LIVING HERE IS SO CHEAP My budget here is roughly 15,000 bths. ($450) a month, for a place with A/C, Wifi, Cable, Washing Machine, Pool and Gym. You know how many apartments fit that bill? Currently on the market, 2,000 within 5 miles of my school. ALL FOR 400! Why can't Oregon be like that? BUT I FOUND THE ONE (enter heart emoji here) Purple blackout curtains, storage, on the river, with a two compartment fridge/freezer, pool, gym and a 20 minute commute to work. Not bad for a first grown up place. They're replacing that red couch for me too. The red shelving isn't so bad, because it's places to hide my bags and suitcases. Overall, its 322 square feet. But, it's just me and looks bigger than the pictures. And my bathroom is nice too! They DO NOT tell you, to have 3 months rent READY at signingWhich honestly, like it isn't thaaaaat bad, but it's not great either. Especially the whole process, cash only. Do you know how hard it is to transfer 30,000 baht from an american account to a thai account? Or how to take out that $1,000 from an atm that swallows your bank card whole? While still needing that card and hoping the machine doesn't take it forever due to fraud? ITS A NIGHTMARE. A BLOODY NIGHTMARE. Plus all the hidden fees, charges, from your american bank and the thai bank PLUS A $40 transaction fee. AND MY ACCOUNT FROZE. And from a Thailand sim card, you cannot call any number in America and then I can't even have people log on to my account for security purposes but really, come on. However it'll be sooo worth it and I'll have a washing machine sent from the heavens above, no toilet shower and a properly working A/C, and a fridge to keep food in (have I mentioned this hotel doesn't even have a mini fridge????). AND with that 3 months rent, I still have to pay for wifi, plates, cups, pots, pans and bedding. I was no where near prepared to have or spend all this up front. Like my 3rd months rent was what I was budgeting to furnish my place. But, I'm adulting, and this is how it goes. It'll work out though, I just know it. Saturday,I went with my new best friend from Ireland, sight seeing! I actually, literally, bumped into her while looking at apartments. Head on collision, and guess what, she works at my school. It's such a small, big world. Anyways, we got to hang out all day, and her accent is like the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. We saw two different temples, went shopping (girls, duh) and had lunch. She showed me everything. She came to Thailand in 2014, went back home and decided to come back after all to teach, so she's been teaching here the last 8 months. Through that time, she knows fluent thai and how to jump from train to train. I was so glad she was my guide. AND ANOTHER THINGEverything I've read on the internet to prepare myself for this trip has been 100% wrooong. Everyone is in flip flops, shorts and tanks tops. I'm sweating my ass off in covered clothes for no good reason. I have to take 3 showers a day, my clothes are wet, and I mean like out of the washing machine, just got out of the shower, ran through a monsoon, dripping wet, only walking outside for 5 minutes. Thailand is the hottest place on earth, try and change my mind. It's almost too hot to eat and even with all the buying water, I still feel my arms shaking. I start my first day teaching on July 2nd! Hopefully the clothes I brought to wear at school don't leave me looking like a version of the boogy man, but sweaty.
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