Mar 31 2006

Here we come, Thailand!

Published by Meagan at 10:15 am under Georgia Tech

I bought my plane ticket to Thailand today. I guess that makes it official! I’ll be leaving June 5th and returning on December 16th. That’s a long time to be abroad! As of right now I’m just flying with Jesse over there. Here’s our itinerary:

June 5-6 Atlanta - Chicago O’Hare - Tokyo Narita - Bangkok (yay!)

December 13 Bangkok - Tokyo for our 3 night trip

December 16 Tokyo - Chicago O’Hare - Atlanta

We’re mailing off our applications to SIIT tomorrow. I’m getting really anxious because my trip is 10 weeks away! 10 weeks! That really is very soon. I have a lot to do in the mean time, and that’s pretty scary as well!

The whole concept of Jesse and I spending 3 nights in Tokyo is intimidating. I think it’ll be a great learning experience for me. It’ll force me to use some Japanese, but tourists go to Japan all the time without knowing Japanese, so we’ll be fine.

Congratulations to the Spain and Puebla teams for the Fall! Audrey, if you read this, we’ll have to be pen pals. Jill will be in Italy for the summer - we can be pen pals too! It seems like we’re all going abroad this coming year. Especially all of the 05-06 Branch Barks!

I think I acquired a language partner today from Thailand. Her name (or nickname, really) is Nam, which means water, and she’s a student at Georgia Tech’s Language Institute. She’s already graduated from a university in Bangkok, so she’s here to work on her English, which I thought was very good. Hopefully we can hang out and talk about Thailand and Atlanta. I’m supposed to help her just by letting her practice English, and hopefully I’ll learn a bit of Thai! This is getting me really nervous about going though, because I realize that I’m going to have to work hard to get enough courage to just make friends with people with the language barrier. This should be great help!

I’m really enjoying “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”

7 Responses to “Here we come, Thailand!”

  1. # Audreyon 31 Mar 2006 at 5:54 pm

    Man, we’ll definitely be pen pals!

    I’m so excited about all of the study abroad-ing (studying abroad, rather =)) that is coming up for the 05-06 Branch Barks. It’s going to be awesome, and I’m so excited to see how God uses all of us. Hooray for Globalscope! (Who says “hooray” anymore?!)

  2. # bact' (ex-SIIT)on 04 May 2006 at 9:27 pm

    dunno what you’re applying for at SIIT,
    but good luck ! ;)
    (from your blog, i think you’re kind of fun person … and, for me, that would be great for SIIT to get some more fun people :D )

  3. # Huion 06 May 2006 at 8:16 pm

    Welcome to SIIT :)

  4. # PMTon 06 May 2006 at 8:54 pm

    Hi. My name’s Um. I knew some ex-student from Georgia Tech last semester.Good luck and Welcome to SiiT ^ ^.

  5. # beathzon 07 May 2006 at 5:40 am

    have a safe stay and welcome to Thailand!!
    (dont bring any sweaters it’s real hot here)

  6. # Ongchunon 07 May 2006 at 9:16 pm

    Welcome to Thammasat

    From Russian Studies, TU

  7. # SIIT batch #14on 09 May 2006 at 9:17 pm

    Sawaddee ka

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