This is the view from our "villa"
Weve been in Rawai for about 5 days now, and we've been really busy. The classes are 9 hours a day.
Were all set with the time change, and surprisingly what Ive found so far is that life here isnt much different from life at home, minus the heat and the food being dirt cheap. We rented a moped sunday, it was $5 for 24 hours including a full tank of gas, and explored the areas around here.
Its funny how random things are expensive. we went to the Big C yesterday which is basically wal mart with 4 stories, it has everything from pigs legs to quail eggs. Beer is very expensive, around $1 a beer and it doesn't matter if you buy 1 or 100 its all the same price. i got lunch today at a nice sit down Thai restaurant right on the beach for about $1.50 including a can of coke. The area where our classes are is really nice, a lot of million dollar homes, but there are also slums right nearby.
They placed us in a group of villas, nice homes with a kitchen, living room, 4 bedrooms and two stories. heres the website http://www.naiharnvilla.com/ click on accommodation and you can see pictures.
all the people in our group are really cool from different backgrounds, (theres about 30 of us)and everone is around 25
we found out we are being placed with 7 other people in our area, which is a relief.
The beach is pretty amazing, the waves are huuuuge, and the water is warmer than bath water.
We had a snake in our Villa yesterday, about 3 feet long, and they maintenance guy caught one outside that was 6 feet long.
The beach we are staying at is called Nai Harn beach, and it has a monastary that takes up most of the beachfront land, making it much less touristy than most places in phuket.
Sorry about the choppy sentences, its basically been a stream of thought.
Ill try and throw some new pictures up soon.
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