Just Living Life

 Every day brings something new; especially when you are 30 000 some odd miles away from home.   At the same time I am just living life day by day and I am happy to say that I have developed a routine here. It’s starting to feel more like home. I want to let you know that not every day is a crazy adventure. Here is a typical day in my life in Thailand.

 Every morning I wake up around six thirty and literally roll out of bed. It is so painfully early. I hate it. I then run down stairs and have a quick a shower, followed by either a pb and j sand, bowl of cereal or a muffin.

At around seven thirty we leave for school, it takes about 20 minutes to drive to school. I usually do my best to sleep the whole way. This can be quite difficult considering the roads in Thailand are very bumpy.

When we arrive at school my mom drops my brother and I off at the front gate, then every morning before class, the whole school has an assembly. The assembly usually lasts for about 20-30 minutes and it is extremely boring especially because I never know what they are saying.

Then we have four periods of random subjects that change each day and make no sense.

Lunch time is equally boring and long. Every day I eat chicken and pork and some weird leafy green vegetable with rice. I never actually eat the rice though. Then we go back to the class room and I usually pass out on my desk for about half an hour.

Then we have three more periods of random subjects that make no sense.

Then school is over. For some reason the girls I hang out with always walk me to my mom’s office when I tell them I am going to go wait on the bench/ table/ with my host brother. They always insist on “dropping me off” with my mother. I always abruptly leave and walk around school find other friends or just sit. It’s really boring to sit in the English office, so I would rather not.

Around four thirty we leave school and drive to pha-la or in English the physical college for boxing. Boxing is the best part of my day. I love it. It is very hard work but it is so much fun. If I could box all day every day I would.

Then I come home, shower, eat dinner and go to bed.

That is a day in the life of Chantel.

xoxo

Chantel <3