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To be honest, the daily life here is the same. I wake up, I teach, I go to bed.

Beyond that, on some weekends we try to get out and do things:

Doi Inthanon (2 weekends)
--This is a national park about an hour and a half drive from Chiang mai. It is the highest peak in Thailand, at about 7,000 or so feet. We spent two different weekends up there, with two different groups of people, and it's a great park. It's cold, which is weird, so you bring sweatshirts for the night time. If it's not raining (which is does a lot) there are some really cool waterfalls and trails and things to see. It's pretty cool.

Another weekend we also went to a resevoir, lake thing, where you take a little boat out to floating houses (its more like a shitty motel on water) but attached is 7-8 little rooms (with only a bed and fan) restaurant, bathrooms, and some platforms to jump off of into the lake. The surrounding mountains and scenery are really quite spectacular. I have to get pics from some people, but it's some really great stuff out there, and it's only about an hour away.

The best part of Chiang Mai so far is the abundance of cool weekend trips possible within a couple hours. The downside is we only have 2 days to travel, see and do everything, to get back in time for work, which is beginning to bore me, but that'll happen with any job, i guess.

I think the only problem I have with my job is that there is no one to speak English to (fluently) all day, so I sit alone for hours and hours and hours doing nothing but sitting on the internet, listening to music or trying to "plan" in advance. I mainly zone out and stare at the wall... but we'll see how things change in the next couple months, since my boss wants to add 10 minutes to all of my classes, and I am going to start just leaving campus when i have lots of dead time, and see what happens...

Other than that, really nothing goes on new anymore during the week. It's the same M-F, and the weekends are the great escape from society.

Guess that's all I got for now, come october I should be traveling for 2 weeks so I'll have more interesting things to talk about rather than what I do with 6 hours of dead time in a single day... (like today)

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