Day 1 – July 17th
I arrived at Don Mueang
International airport at 13.35. I and some
students from Indonesia named Evan, Rahmi, and Risa were picked up by four
students from Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, they were Mat, Ing, Meen,
and Pond. They are our buddy that will accompany us in Thailand. We went to the VRU’s dormitory by
van. I felt lucky because Meen is a Muslim, so I can ask him the direction to
pray in the dormitory and also the time table of praying. I live at the
dormitory with 16 students from Indonesia and 2 students from Philippine that
join SEAMEO – SEATEACHER programs.
VRU’s
Dormitory
After praying, we went to Tesco
Lotus Mart to buy simcard and data to communicate with people in Indonesia,
especially parents and lecture to report about the activities that we did here.
Day 2 – July 18th
Today Risa and I plan to walk
around Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University to know more about this university.
We got the information where is Faculty of Education, Family Mart (open 24
hours), Library, swimming pool, café, wifi area etc. In the afternoon, we went
to the market near university (Kong Luang Market), this is my favorite place to
find food for dinner, because this market is open from 3 p.m until 8 or 9 p.m. I
went there to buy foods almost everyday.
Kong Luang
Market (about 1 km from VRU)
Day 3 – July 19th
Ajarn Tangmo and Ajarn Aranya
visited us in dormitory and gave us some foods for breakfast, they also lend us
a ricecooker and stove, so that we can cook rice or other foods.
Because today is still holiday, so
we planned to go to Ayutthaya Province. We went to Ayutthaya by van, and in
Ayutthaya we use Tuktuk (it looks like Bajaj in Indonesia) to going around
Ayutthaya. We went to Ayutthaya at 10.10 a.m. I went to Ayutthaya with Rahmi,
Evan, Risa, Olivia, Mat, Mat’s Aunt, Ing, and Ing’s Aunt. We went to several
wat (temples), like Wat Chaiwattanaram, Wat Phu Khao Thong, Wat Tha Ka Rong, we
also went to the elephant conservation.
Wat Chaiwattanaram
Tuktuk
We did something interesting there,
we pretended to be Thai people so that we could get the cheaper price of the
entrance ticket. But when we were entering the temple, we have to keep silent.
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We ate Pad Thai as the dinner, it was a traditional food from Thailand and
it was very delicious.
Pad Thai
Day 4 – July 20th
In this fourth day, I stay at the
dorm because I had a stomachache. But in the afternoon I went to Big C and buy
some foods and drinks, after that I went to the market to buy some dorm
equipments.
