SO even though there are friends around, it doesn't mean it wasnt hard to adjst, in fact, I am still firuging it all out. Its weird to not be able to call any of my friends and say hi, make plans and just be comfortable. I don't have a life here yet so im trying, but its hard when people are in town an we are all spending time together.


The hardest thing for me is transportation- everyone rides a motorbike here! I for one, have been on one in my life and I was clutching the back of a thai man on the way down a mountain to a secluded beach in Thailand….needless to say ( and cemented by the fingernail marks I left in his sides) I did not enjoy it. So jon and mel are just like happy as a "pig in shit" ( thank you jon for this enlightened new saying) on their bikes swerving, weaving and zooming around town. So far I am a backseat passenger, hitching rides around wherever we go so that is also hard because I don't have a level of freedom yet and feel like im just going along with other peoples plans. But as soon as I get up the confidence to take it on on my own, I will have to! Working on it guys, working on it!