Week 12: Going Out With a Bang(kok)! The Final Week

Early Monday morning we took a flight to Bangkok and said our final good-bye to Chiang Mai. This was our last week of the program before everyone went home, and for the most part we were given a lot of unstructured time to just explore. First impression of Bangkok: yeah, much bigger than Chiang Mai….

Week 11: Farewell, Chiang Mai

This week was pretty laid back as far as just staying in Chiang Mai and finishing up with classes. We had our final, but now that it’s done classes here are pretty much over! We also got the results back from our pilot survey and started analyzing them. This first set of surveys was sent…

Week 10: Back to Hong Kong!

This week started out a little more laid back as things are starting to wind down a bit. Among the things that we did, we had our final history class and also watched a Thai film called “The Overture.” I don’t want to brag or anything but my Thai has reached the point where I…