The Flight

In Thailand safe and sound!  Here are a couple of back-posts, as I didn't have internet until now :)

The plane rides were very, very difficult.  It was straining and an emotional rollercoaster when thinking about how much I am going to miss everyone.  Secondly, I had to do that for 21 hours of flight time. 

It wasn't all bad though.  The longest flight - 13.5 hours, my seat ended up being next to the cutest little Korean boy.  The first thing he said to me when I sat down was "...would you like to share some chips?" as he pulled out a large bag of lays BBQ.  My response? "Sure!"  Instant friends!  He is in grade 5 and was coming home to Korea from a homestay program, in which he went to school in London, Ontario for 4 months.  He certainly made the plane ride more entertaining, especially since none of us U of W students were able to six next to each other.

The layovers were not very exciting.  It was remarkably easy to navigate through the airports, and we never really came across any long lineups.  The paperwork was also very simple to fill out, and we walked right through customs as we had nothing to declare.  Both layovers also had WiFi, and Tim and I were able to chat during the second one, which made me feel a lot better :) 

Then finally we arrived in the sweaty city at around 11:00pm!  Being the smallest of the two groups, there being only six of us while there are 14 in the other group, we were able to organize ourselves quickly and take off for the apartments.  An easy half hour later we were at our apartment building!  Unfortunately, I got the worst apartment - my view looks directly onto a wall.  Oh well, will try to make the best of it!  I should be used to an outside wall view by now, right Tim?  One nice thing is that there is a small patio, so I am thinking of buying one or two large plants to at least get somewhat of a tropical feel when I look out the window.