Wednesday, February 15, 2012
I'm up super early today...wake up at 3, then 4 then finally at 5 I decide to stay up and see who is online...maybe the downside of having wifi in my room...cause I probably should have went back to sleep.
Today was the first official day of class...here's how it starts:
  • Expect the unexpected
  • Brace yourself, you have no idea how shaken, amazed challenged, stimulated,pained and troubled you will be. You will emerge as a new person.
  • And that's the beauty of the course: while being exposed to concepts and top class experts on conflict resolution, you are subtly being groomed, from head to toe, into a peacemaker.
We all knew what we signed up for and look forward to it immensely but can't help but have some fears, it is going to be one amazing challenge but one I'm sure I will be glad I took.

We are still waiting for two classmates to arrive and join our class and hope and pray they can make it, but sadly it is much harder for citizens in some countries to travel. Hopefully they will make it safely here by the end of the week.

On top of our regular studies we are being offered Thai language courses in the mornings before our regular classes, I will be starting that on Monday.

The campus here is very nice. There is a new sports complex with an Olympic size pool...so on top of everything else I am going to try and swim most mornings...I'll see how that goes, but shouldn't be a problem as it is HOT here 24/7 so I'm sure I will welcome a swim. So between swimming and the humidity I'm bracing for a 3 month stretch of bad hair! Haha

Tonight after class I ventured out for a few groceries, the stores here are massive as is the city. I did manage to pick up a few things to have breakfast in my room, but somewhere on my journey I lost the fruit I bought??? I'm really not sure what happened to it...so I will try again another day!
Sorry no pictures yet...hopefully tomorrow after class I can at least get some campus pictures to post!

1 comments:

Julie Quenneville said...

Wow does your class ever sound exciting! You will have to keep us informed. I hope your classmates get to Thailand safely. Your accomodations sound great. Make sure you get some sleep and eat! We don't want you to get sick. Awaiting the next blog....

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