10 days in Asia

First day at school. Are we kindergartners with ties and collars? You decide. Behind is our company logo. 

The beach looking inward. 

Chinatown in Sriracha, Thailand. 2 notes:

1. Sriracha like the spicy red sauce (to my immediate fam: the red hot sauce in the refrigerator)

2. Chinatown in another Southeast Asian country. Just like every Chinatown in the world. 

Our group (L-R Laurissa, Jonathan, Luke, Steven, Audrey) upon arrival in Bangkok. It's 6:40am and we couldn't be happier all of our luggage arrived!!

Dinner on the beach. (Luke, Audrey, Steven, Natalie, Heather) All teachers from Baylor (save Luke, he went to Samford in Alabama). 

Ko Samed. We spent our first weekend in Thailand on this island. Lovely place! We stayed in a bungalow, which is typical. 

We have on sunscreen, don't worry. 

Systems Training. We live right around the corner. 

Greetings from Bangkok! 

We're sitting at Woodstock, a local restaurant that mostly caters to westerners. They play lots of good music and we have met many Americans. 

We decided email as a way to get pictures to you wasn't working. It is to be seen how often we will post here as opposed to emails, but picture updates will be on this blog. I just saw blog is short for web log.

Ten days in to it, here are a few reflections:

-Adjusting to the heat was almost seamless. No problems when there isn't an option, right? Already we have both seen how we can be uncomfortable (as in too cold) in air conditioning just after a few days. There isn't central air anywhere except maybe the bank and malls. It's incredibly efficient and easy to adapt to. 

-The district we live in, Thong Lo (pronounced Tong Law), is sophisticated and clean. Traveling to work has shown us that not all of Bangkok is this nice. It's a Western/Japanese area. For the right price, any type of food is available. They have Mexican, American, and Thai food at Woodstock. A burger costs 250 baht, around $7 (they have fourteen types of burgers!).

-We work for a company called Systems Training. They supply English teachers to area schools. The people there are very kind. 

-We teach at Rajinibon, or the Queen's School. Here is the website if you would like to check out some pictures. http://www.rajinibon.ac.th -- From there choose the English (unless, of course, you read Thai). At the bottom of the English page choose next to see pictures. 

-It rains a lot, but not as much as we expected. It will rain really hard for half an hour or so, but it is cloudy most days. That might change once rainy season is over. 

-Traveling to and fro work involves all or some of the following modes: bus (no A/C or A/C - there are both), Skytrain (much like the El train in Chicago, but newer/nicer), taxi, walking (because I (Audrey) will not not not ride a motorbike). 

-Life is good. It's all very different, all very similar. 

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Take care, 

S&A

P.S. We haven't taken the elephant taxi as of yet, check back soon! Look closely behind the truck.