Because for some reason, called Cleaning Day, everything at Chula is closed except the classrooms. This means the computer lab. So I have a rather more limited time on the internet to post than usual.
On Tuesday, I spent the day at Chula meeting the Thai exchange students for next year (nice people), listening to an interesting lecture by Prof. Kennedy about the failure of artificial knee joints, and eating dumplings for the first time in Bangkok (although dumplings are not Thai food, a friend of mine persisted in telling me 'eat some dumplings for her' while I was here. So, I have. They were delicious).
Yesterday, Charnice and I tried to go to the Snake Farm. According to her guidebook, admission was 70 Baht, and they milked the snakes for venom at 2:30 pm. When we got there, at 2:20, we discovered that the milking had taken place at 11 AM, and that admission was 200 Baht. So we decided to come back another day at 11 AM - probably next Thursday, because my Muay Thai class got randomly cancelled for two weeks (which is REALLY ANNOYING - I wanted to kick things!). So we spent Thursday afternoon at the IRW meeting instead.
The International Relations and Welfare club is the one I mentioned a few weeks ago. It consists of the international students here who live in Bangkok but don't speak Thai very fluently, and so they can't participate in most of the extracurriculars at Chulalongkorn because they are all conducted in Thai. So the IRW is planning to start various activities conducted in English, like the classes at ISE, to include the international students. Right now the meetings still consist of hanging out and chatting, but it's fun.
And now, I am off to my CAD class. The closing of the computer lab for cleaning hopefully means that we'll get out at 3 today instead of 6. Which is awesome.
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- Casey
- I'm a junior engineering major at Dartmouth College, currently studying at the International School of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Try saying that three times fast.
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Wooo dumplings! Were these Genuine Thai Cuisine Dumplings™ very delicious and very Thai? :p
ReplyDeleteOh huh, "International Relations and Welfare" -- once the club gets further off the ground, what are they(/you?) planning beyond hanging out and chatting?