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not feeling so confident today.
i moved into my new house yesterday. i am not a violent person by nature but i now have this murderous desire to destroy the seemingly thousands of roosters who began crowing (screeching) right outside my window at 2:00 AM this morning and kept me awake all night. i am going to be a nervous wreck if this continues.
yesterday morning ajarn pranorm took us to a ceremony for the opening of a new temple in a village not far from phimai. for breakfast there was another huge feast, and when pranorm realized i wasn't eating much and asked about it, i admitted to being a vegetarian. five minutes later a server appeared with two huge plates of fried eggs for me. i hate eggs more than just about anything in the world and would probably rather eat meat, but i managed to smile and force some of it down so as not to appear even more picky/pretentious than i already do. so this morning she brought me a huge bag full of eggs.
i also just taught my first class. i guess i am clearly not cut out to be a teacher and it was pretty awful. 15 year old boys are scarier than i remembered and these kids really hardly understand english at all despite the fact that they've been studying it for years. so yeah, nothing more nerve-racking than standing in front of 50 teenagers who don't understand what you're saying to them and just giggle for an hour.
the election is tomorrow and nobody here knows who george bush or john kerry is.
i moved into my new house yesterday. i am not a violent person by nature but i now have this murderous desire to destroy the seemingly thousands of roosters who began crowing (screeching) right outside my window at 2:00 AM this morning and kept me awake all night. i am going to be a nervous wreck if this continues.
yesterday morning ajarn pranorm took us to a ceremony for the opening of a new temple in a village not far from phimai. for breakfast there was another huge feast, and when pranorm realized i wasn't eating much and asked about it, i admitted to being a vegetarian. five minutes later a server appeared with two huge plates of fried eggs for me. i hate eggs more than just about anything in the world and would probably rather eat meat, but i managed to smile and force some of it down so as not to appear even more picky/pretentious than i already do. so this morning she brought me a huge bag full of eggs.
i also just taught my first class. i guess i am clearly not cut out to be a teacher and it was pretty awful. 15 year old boys are scarier than i remembered and these kids really hardly understand english at all despite the fact that they've been studying it for years. so yeah, nothing more nerve-racking than standing in front of 50 teenagers who don't understand what you're saying to them and just giggle for an hour.
the election is tomorrow and nobody here knows who george bush or john kerry is.