Due to internet constraints, this blog will now update REGULARLY (and I'll try my best to stick to this), on Mondays and Fridays. The reason: those days are the days I will be going into Chula for classes. While the wireless internet here is just as slow nd unreliable as the internet I previously bought from Evergreen, the difference is IT'S FREE. I don't even have to pay the electricity to power the computer.
When I get back to the US, I'm going to spend about twenty hours straight online, revelling in the speed of real internet.
This past weekend, a group of us exchange students went to sing karaoke, which is a fairly popular thing around here. You rent a soundproof room with couches and a karaoke set, and then sing for an hour. Annoyingly, we could not figure out how to work the system (extremely non-intuitive interface). Even when we called the staff in to help, they didn't explain it to us - they just clicked some buttons and left, even when we tried to get them to show us. So I doubt we'll go back to that place for karaoke. They did have midnight bowling there as well though - we're planning to hit that up at some point.
At the moment, I'm sitting in on a preliminary meeting of the International Students' Club at Chula, which some permanent international students (like my friend Dolly) are starting. As temporary international students, we were invited too. Right now it's consisting of everyone joking around, and talking of fun-colored turbans (well, it makes sense in context). Fun times.
This coming week, the plan is to spend our copious free time doing cultural things, like visiting temples and so forth. Update to follow on Friday.
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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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Hahaha, freedom (as in beer*)!
ReplyDeleteBleh @ unusable karaoke machine. I've now been to a couple karaoke places that fit your description in NYC and their remotes were likewise horrible, but at least the buttons were labeled in English so we were able to muddle through. And one time we did have to call the staff in but they were actually helpful. IN AMERICA!
K
*yeah, "freedom" doesn't actually have the gratis sense that "free" does, but watch me just not even care. Behold my aloofness!