Life...and Project Trust Staff Visit

Kate, our desk officer, and Heloise from Project Trust visited us at our project on Friday. They saw us teach and we showed them around our house. They were pleasantly surprised when we cooked them tea, we cooked a lovely Panang Gai (red curry, with chicken and coconut milk). It was nice to see them and talk about our project, and they were asking if we had any problems with anything. The only thing that came up was about money. Pying, one of our friends and teacher at the school was saying that she thought we were not getting paid enough. When Kate was volunteering, she was paid the same amount, but 6 years ago, and the cost of living has increased since then. 

I was talking to them about my blog and everything and they were surprised at how many posts I had made. I thought I wasn't doing too well, as as soon as I haven't posted for a while I find a message from my Mum questioning me on my lack of post. I appreciate it though as it makes me realise that you want to know what I am up to and are supporting me. However, from my perspective, I have been here for over 5 month now. And not much happens that differs from what I now perceive as normal life. I blogged a lot more at the start because everything was new and exciting. But now, blogging about everything would be like you blogging about every little thing you do in your daily routine. 

This morning, I woke up at 7.15, but it was a bit chilly, so I wrapped myself in my blanket and listened to a bit of music. I then rose out of bed at 7.30. I went downstairs to have a shower and a shave, yes, I actually needed a shave. We then heard a knock at our door to find Brayung, out host, waiting with a new fridge. Well, new to us, it was an old one from her house. Our last one has been broken fro a while, we opened it yesterday and were welcomed by an awful stench and an assortments of mould, lovely. 

After replacing the fridge, I cut up some watermelon and poured myself a cup of coffee. We really need to go shopping as we have no food in the fridge. I still have Nesquick from home which I got for Christmas. We then brushed our teeth, fixed our hair and proceeded to lock up and leave for assembly. After signing in, I sat myself in the office, logged onto the internet and started to write this blog... this is my day so far. 

Later I will most likely teach a few lessons, my first one at 11.15, then 2 in the afternoon. I am not sure what we are having for lunch yet, that is the exciting part, it is a surprise. 

The weather has been much cooler this month which has been nice. I am not looking forward to the hot season when the temperatures will be dancing around 40 degrees. 

That's a thing, my Christmas present, IT ARRIVED! It was an amazing day, I was so excited. I didn't even let Dave wrap them. I just dove in to the parcel to see what I got. It was so good. I got a few present that made me laugh, like a Rodney mask and some stick on monsters. A transfer tattoo that goes onto your hand between your thumb and index finger, so that you can have a talking monster. 

There were plenty of sweets and biscuits as well that were polished off not long after the package was opened, I now wish I has savoured some. 

I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who sent me a present or card. It was very kind of you! I had a lovely Christmas morning opening presents with David, then a great second Christmas opening my package from my parents.

I didn't think I had that much to say, but I started writing and then couldn't seem to stop, until now. 

Stay classy...world.

Ben 

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