Week One in Thailand!

Well this certainly has been a long week that flew by without even realizing what was happening.  Mostly that's because I'm jet lagged out of my mind and am tired constantly.  I have gone to bed at 8pm the past four nights and woken up 10 to 11 hours later.  Maybe I'll be able to catch up for the two to three hour nights I had five days in a row while traveling and getting adjusted.

Right now I am in PST-Pre Service Training and will be for the next 10 weeks.  I suppose it can be related to being in the MTC.  The staff is composed of Thai natives who speak English and a few Americans who speak Thai.  Everyone is really really great.  The Thai culture is known for its friendliness and everyone here certainly fits that norm.

There are 66 volunteers here in my training group.  A typical day is broken into two parts, the morning and the afternoon, broken up by an hour lunch break.  We stayed in a hotel in Ayuthya province  for the first few days and then Saturday moved to our homestay families in Uthai.  I live with a family that has three kids and a granddaughter and a ton of neighbors, aunts, uncles, and friends that walk in and out, I can't really tell who belongs to the family yet or how everyone is related.