Study Abroad: Thailand Spring 2022

05/30/2022 - Surprise! Today Fai, her family and all my friends made me a surprise birthday party (I almost cried). They gave me a new book bag (my old one broke), many shirts and gifts for my family, and they gave me 300$ (which is a lot of money for us in the US, but is a ton of money for Thai people). I can honestly say I am blessed to have met such amazing people, they have blessed me in so many ways. I really hate to leave them, I hope I get to see them again soon.

  05/29/2022 - Today Fai has brought me to Mahidol university (the same university I attended) to take her graduation and my graduation photos from Mahidol University. We got super dressed up and even have a professional photographer to take many photos of us throughout the day. It was an amazing and very sad day because I know I will never attend this super beautiful university ever again. I really love this university, it made me happy to study here and made me excited to attend school everyday.  

  05/13/2022 Don Inthanon national park, which was made in 1971 to honor Thailand 7th king Inthawichayanon (note: this is not the current king this kind lived in the 1800s). The temple has a ton of flowers and is placed on the top of mountain. It is a very unique temple, a bit more modern than most temples since it even has an escalator to bring you to the temple. It was very neat and the view was amazing. 

  05/12/2022 - One thing about me is that I love hiking, it is one of my favorite things to do and finally I am in Chang Mai, which is also a previous capital of Thailand. Chang Mai is located in northern Thailand where the weather is a lot colder than the south. it also has more mountains and hills than the south, and today I get to go explore them!

  05/04/2022 - Khao San road! It’s the main party road in Bangkok with a ton of bars, restaurants and photo destinations. My friend Bird and Fai are here with me and we have taken so many photos at the photo destinations. Wow, I just ate at a middle eastern style restaurant named Shoshana and the food was unbelievably delicious. 

05/01/2022 - Fai’s mom has invited me to go on their family vacation (for free) she is so sweet. She was teaching me how to cook and honestly I don’t know how she does it everyday, so much grinding the ingredients haha. On this trip we stayed at a private house in the south of Thailand and I was able to meet some very very amazing people.