Photos as promised

My new wheels

Our bike "gang" on our commute to the training site

My Thai host family
(Host sister and Host dad)

Our house
(My host sister and I have the second floor to ourselves)

Our room
(You can see Meow, the cat, on the far left next to my bed)

The infamous bathroom and squat toilet

View from my window

Coconut tree

Ayutthaya Floating Market
(A famous market in Ayutthaya province where we live;
my host family took me this weekend :))

An elephant!
You can buy a ticket to ride one but we didn't this time
Ironically, they were also selling ivory ware at a stand next door... :/

Coconut ice cream served in coconuts on a boat

Woman serving the ice cream
I don't understand how she wasn't drowning in sweat in that outfit
Either way, my host family told me it's traditional Thai clothing

Friend's host mom grilling catfish for us
[Vegetarians and animal lovers stop reading here]
She was probably holding down the catfish because she was grilling it while it was still alive...
Every once in a while it would flop off the grill. She would pick it up, throw it back in the bucket of water to rinse it off, and then put it back on the grill. Poor catfish. It was delicious though.

Thai pad thai