Just another Friday morning....

Alright. I am not writing this post to make you all go open up you mini violin cases…..and start playing my whining symphony. This is just part of life here in Thailand. I have two things.

1.      Good news/bad news.  I have been infected with something of the stomach. The good news it is not the trolls or even near the pain the trolls inflicted on my body. I am not going to get to detailed here, but it has lasted over 72 hours. The bad news is since I am not really sure what caused it I am once again turned off by most food at the moment……the night the evils started stirring I had had a few different things to eat.  Something so simple as a little chicken sandwich on wheat bread to some stirfried veggies….it could have been bad chicken or it could have been the oil the veggies were cooked in. So I have been eating crackers, plain toast, cornflakes dry, and small amounts of fresh fruit. Everything else makes me gag.....

2.      So after being up and random hours of the night I remember…oh craaap I am starting class an hour early Friday morning.  I had asked the van to be there at 630 so I would FOR SURE not be late for 8AM class down in the city.  Well, since I don’t have a cell phone*..I don’t have an alarm clock. The front desk has been kind enough to give me morning wake-up calls. I actually answer the phone in Thai when I am half sleeping…I have a whole two word THAI conversation every morning....so they call at 630 and say…..Your van is here…..oh!!!!!!!!!!! I am in my pjs still and looking like a morning mess. 6:37 my teeth were brushed, I had on the same outfit as Thursday except I added I high messy bun and a scarf. I ran down to the van and climbed in. Still a little out of it and the van driver looks at me and says..

 ACC?

Yes, yes, ACC. Thank you.

You know where we go?

Do I know? Like how to get there?

Yes, Ajhan….how do we get there…

Uh……

Uhh…ookokookokok Ajarn.

He shuts the door and starts driving. I know this is not going to be good. He is on the cell for a while. We get into the city. Then begins the sitting in BKK morning traffic, the pulling over to the side of roads into gas stations, into a morning food market, u turns, right turns, on coming traffic turns, try not to hit the morning motor biker moves, merging without looking, pit stops at taxi cab huts….you name it we probably did it or stopped there for directions. Now I have been to this school many times but we hardly ever take the exact same way there or home. I never have paid attention to the actually street names. If I was on a motorbike and driving I could probably get there because I recognize certin landmarks but I could not give directions. So here is very good reason why I really need to get out my comfortable morning Thai convo and start studying some more challenging conversation, instead of good morning, thank you, bye.

I got to class at 8:30 and felt really guilty….but then again it was not really my fault…why didn’t he say to boss man when he got the call this morning….I don’t know where the hell ACC Campus is…call someone else!

I could tell he felt bad….so when I got into the van this afternoon I saved him some homemade cookies  my students made.  They were good and it was hard to give them up, but he got me to ACC and home in once piece and that’s what was important!

( I forgot to tell you guys it got JACKED during midterms. I left it in a classroom for 30 min, in a corner, plugged in to charge….GONE. So I am old school. I just have my home phone…aka DORM phone and internet. I will grace myself with a new old school nokia next week. Maybe. )