New people and a Big Jungle

22-Nov

Another girl arrived today from England. She came to work today and I welcomed her home to Thailand by giving her a ride to our house on the back of the motorbike. I never rode with anyone as nervous as she was! I prefer weaving through the busy streets with two Thai women on the bike than with on jumpy foreigner!
The Belgium roommates left on Saturday to do some traveling. It’s nice to have more room in the house. I think they were frustrating to live with for most of us, so things seem to be going better around the home. It’s really clean anyhow.
Also, a Thai guy named Dao just started volunteering today and will be here for the next 3 weeks or so. This is nice because it gives me someone else to speak some Thai with. I think he’ll move into our house here, which means I have to clean the room tonight. It would be good if he comes I think because where he is living now there are no people for him to talk to and go get food with, etc. It’s a good chance for him to learn English better if he comes here, which is what he wants to know more of. I finished chopping down our jungle of a yard today. Now I’m left with a giant grass pile in the front of our house. I have to figure out what to do with that. I was given a pair of hedge clippers to cut the lawn with. I realized pretty quickly that the job wasn’t going to be any fun and take forever. I decided to go down to the big weekend market here on Saturday and buy a couple of gardening weapons…I mean, tools. I figured a couple different swords (machette’s) would do the trick just fine. Surprisingly it only cost me 5 dollars for the two swords I used to cut down our jungle. And, the job became a lot more fun rather quickly!