I Love Lacey Squier

Well this title has nothing to do with the actual post but enjoy anyways...
Today was a frusterating day. Things were not working in my favor at all. I realize there are more and better days to come. This morning's class was hard because it was mostly review and we have gone over 6 chapters of Thai language in about 3 days, which I can tell you now is a LOT. So I was lost a lot of the time and so was everyone else. Then the professor, which happens to be my host father, went on to a new chapter...here we go again. Looks like I will need to speak more at home, aka practice.
Then we had our first culture class which was VERY boring. The professor studies the types of tribes of Thailand and the list of them is incredibly long and painful. I am excited to see what other topics lie ahead for this class. But this professor was monotone and not very fun.
My internship today was also frusterating because we did absolutely nothing. We sat around and talked and waited for the monks to come have "monk chat", but they were afraid of us and no one came. Tomorrow we are teaching English in the classroom so that will be better and once the monks see us sitting and waiting...I know they will come to chat. I want to learn so much about Buddhism not at the technical level if you know what I mean...but at the principle level, the history and actual practice of buddhism.
The day ended and I walked all the way from the Buddhist university back to Chiang Mai university to meet Marit and Ajan Rien who is my host father so we could go back home. We changed into workout attire and headed to the Lotus market for aerobic dance in the parking lot with Marit's Kunn Maa, which is her host mom. This is a free program to keep the people of Thailand in shape. It was fun, not too hard, but interesting. The guy at the front changed his mind on the moves we did a lot and it was hard to keep up as noobs (short for newbies).
We got back to Marit's house and had dinner with her host sister and her grandma and it was incredible. It made up for a difficult day for sure. We tried to speak as much Thai as possible even though it was hard. It showed me that I am learning but slowly and I can communicate but it just takes time. Hopefully I can get over this speed bump. I wish I could wake up and just know the Thai language.
Tomorrow is another day....
Aubs