22/01/2012 - Orientation Day
Orientation
day was quite relaxed starting with french toast with honey and banana for
breakfast at 8am. All 3 new volunteers then started our orientation which
consisted of any thai traditions like the 'wai' or the fact that we need to
take off our shoes upon entering a classroom or house or any room for that
matter. Things like bowing your head when passing in front of someone older,
things we needed to know as we would be dealing with local teachers and local
students.
After
that we were supposed to head for the town tour but everyone was still quite
exhausted from the night before so we decided to take the rest of the morning
easy then head to a beach in Trat.
The songthaew
picked all of us up and we were off awtankhu bay in trat. This place had
absolutely no tourists as it is a local haunt. It was beautiful and the water
was nice and cool. But the afternoon was really about the food. Meaw went to
the restaurant opposite the beach which served food on the table provided on the beach and chose
a couple of local dishes some spicier than others albeit all spicy and some
local beer. Until we waited for the food we decided to head in for a swim.The
food came and disappeared just as fast. It was incredible.
After our good meal
we just relaxed by the beach and headed in and out of the water not after
trying some coconut milk ice cream with some sticky rice, which was quite good.
Me and meaw ended up in splash fight with the local kids who were playing in
the water.
At around
4.30pm we headed back to the dorm, next for the day was the sunday market in
Trat. We got home showered and left for the market to find it quite
underwhelming and Meaw explained to us that since it was Chinese New Year it
wasn't as busy and there were less
stalls than normally.
Soon we
were off home, grabbed some dinner and had an early night, the next morning we
would be starting our volunteer work.
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