ok day

OK day today.. nothing special happend as far as I can remember.. they used to have a swedish teacher here for 4 years.. so I got to know about that.. yeah.. boring day in other words tomorrow I have to wake up at 6 am!! ! torture, I usually wake up at 2-3 PM on saturdays.. Bye Kyss og klem - Benjamin

The sun is rising higher

Well well.. Today my councelor (I should check up how that is spelled) spoke with my hostmother on the phone and she said that they would buy me a bed when she gets money and can afford one.. Really bummer AFS. And I just noticed yesterday when I removed my pillow, that under it it smelled urin.. like dryed in old urin.. the blanket probably belonged to some old lady from the countryside that is now dead.. I bought a film in the shop and though beeing an american film its in thai with no subtitles or what so ever.. so I watched side b of friends season 9. Yesterday as we were sitting out in the school yard this lady came over, who I thought was a teacher. She looked like the teacher in laura ingals, the house on the prairie, just with thai face, and she started to babble to all the kids in the yard about ching chong yezusz ching chog yezusz. then she handed out brochures and cartoons in thai about jesus, she asked me if I speak english, and I told her that I do. She asked me if I belive in Jesus, and that it's very immortant, orelse you go to hell.. And I was having the largest laughattack ever and tried to hide it, not very well I think as she looked at me with bad eyes. I asked her what the f/ck she was doing preaching to these kids when they are buddhist, she looked at them, and back on me with eyes red as a devils, and started with an agressive voice shouting : IF YOU DON'T BELIVE IN JESUS YOU GO TO HELL!! If you are a buddhist you go to hell: She looked at the kids once again and said: If you are a buddhist you go to hell!: Then she just walked away.. I asked the kids who this lady was, they were like> : I dunno, We've never seen here before.. I think she must have been a jehova missionary or something... I just feel bad for the kids.. that she is screaming into their faces that they will go to hell.. really, really, really not good stratergy for marketing Jesus in Thailand. The PR office in Heaven is probably not happy right now... I'd personally fire the lady.. burn lady burn.. disco inferno... oki doki .. think I'll go now before this entry becomes even longer then it already is.. Gev meg un kuss.. :p kuss kuss till alle

Sun is shining above the dark cloudes

Well.. I'm a bit more happy now than I where before.. I am at the computer room with my notebook, talking to my dad on skype. the norwegian school office for education didn't register my next years school application, wich I need for my new school.. and the deadline is today for giving feedback on weather I want the spot or not. Well.. This sucks.. and I tried to call them, but no good line work here with satelite highspeed internet out in the middle of nowhere.
My councelor is to talk with my host parents that maybe they would concider buying me a B E D. I'm trying to upload my website now. Not on dreamweaver yet, as it is almost impossible to download anything at this secondary school.. so it's made with frontpage. http://home.no.net/livethai I will put it out on .tk later.. just have to publish it first :p well. puszi puszi and So What thee Crap to ya all..

Sun is shining above the dark cloudes

Well.. I'm a bit more happy now than I where before.. I am at the computer room with my notebook, talking to my dad on skype. the norwegian school office for education didn't register my next years school application, wich I need for my new school.. and the deadline is today for giving feedback on weather I want the spot or not. Well.. This sucks.. and I tried to call them, but no good line work here with satelite highspeed internet out in the middle of nowhere.

Yet another f.up day

Even though it's in the morning. My day has been terrible so far. Everybody suddenly seems hostile. I was supposed to have two computer classes this morning, but no, the teacher had to go to some hospital and they don't want to let me in the computer room (even though most of the time I am there, there is no teacher in) because, and quoting "The director wants to keep clean. You know maybe dust or some" I have to get onto Vigo to confirm my school status, but they don't want to let me into the computer room, so I can call those ppl.. instead I am sitting here on a modem an writing a stupid entry. Really hope things will sort out. I may be grumpy because I didn't sleep much last night.. I wonder who would sleep good on the hard floor. Cry me a river Benny.. I'll write something more happy later.. cheers :s

My day of pessimism

yesterday the school took me to a sports
parade. the opening ceremony to some local
sports event. I got to hold the school flag
and it was cool. there was a lot of music and
dancing and the kids were good. With all the
flags, the orchesters, this reminded me of
17th of may in Norway. I'm starting to miss
Norway a little now. I spoke to Maren, she
lives in a nice family, own bathroom, own
bedroom. Seb lives near the beach and has a
great view, he seems to like his family. Me,
live out in the middle of nowhere, nothing to
do, a family wich whom I have no common
interests, language, culture or anything else
in common then that we live in the same houseI brought my laptop to school today. And I'm
sitting in the computer room. I am depressed
today, so I might not write anything positive
at all here today. And btw. a correction from
last blog, the people with the flatscreen at
school has a lot of money because they have an
English Program at the school. The students
pay like 50 000 a semester to go there, hence
the cash. So I am still not certain of where
all my afs money goes. Even my host family
keeps asking me if I know where the money
goes. dan dan dan.. this is like the start of
some 90s thriller movie, where I'm about to
reveal some evil imperium, like in 'the firm'
or whatever. Now I have a free class, then I
have one after two hrs of thai, then again,
thai the rest of the day. Pessimistic: No
contact with host family, no contact with kids
at school, only some girls that want to learn
english from me (they seem nice, but spending
my whole year teaching english??) nothing to
do in the village or whatever I live in, only
go to the 50 meter long market and buy
infected meat or fish a la salmonella. I'd
wish I was down in the south, near a beach,
the school was near the beach. like in an
island out in the crystall clear water, with a
family that cares genuinely, kids at school
that can communicate, and lots of things to
do. here I can't even meet kids from school
as afs recommends to socialize, I, no, my
hostfamily lives ten fukkings kilometers from
school. I could walk for a month and still only bee half way to school. some of the kids
staring at me here in the computer room look
really scary and hostile. Like they know of
something bad that's gonna happend to me. I'm
first writing my blog on notepad, and pasting
it onto the web when the freakin ajan computer
comes and turns on the internet. Ok, enaugh
for this morning pessimism, I'll write later
when I get happy... or even more depressed.
I'll write a lot of emo notes and and and..
naaah.. then I'd rather don't write at all.

Piss out - Ben

ps. I just turned on the internet. the teacher
didn't know how to do it.

8th day in Thailand

It's 11:21 PM and I'm in the AFS head office in Maha Sarakham City. They asked me if I wanted to come and do the AFS interviews for students that want to travel abroad, and I thought - why not? I have been here for one and a half hour and basically nothing has happend, so I asked for internet, and they have ADSL flatscreen internet here. That's where all my AFS money is going, but they could not get me a freakin bed. OK. a little update of what has happend the past eight days. On friday the 7th I arrived in Bangkok. the 8th the introduction camp for AFS Thailand started at an airconditioned hotel, it was cool, and I met a bunch of great people. We got a crash course in Thai culture, language, sex and religion. The next day (on the 9th) we had the same, and we met our consellors (dont know the spelling) from our school, it was nice. Thai food really is spicy and some of it is quite different from what I'm used to, to express myself diplomatically. (some of it taste like crap!, note some) I met some cool belgian people who and Seb gave me Belgian music, that has really saved me the past days from going mentally crazy among these people. Monday I went to my host family by bus, and NOT an airconditioned one. ('we are going by an air conditioned bus, right?' - ' Oh, yes yes' MY A??) I saw my room and I was shocked, I had no freaking bed! They took me to this 3 x 3 m room and there was a blanket on the floor just waiting for me. My host father said that it USED TO BE a bed in here, just that they removed it because they thought it would be too short for me. what a fuckin silly excuse is that. Here I am, arriving tired, working hard to pay the 8OOO euro fee, and they have NO BED in my BEDROOM. Which btw turned out not to be my bedroom. In the application to the host family to AFS, that I got in my mail they had pictured a room, with a bed and written: AFS Stuents BEDroom. But in my room there was no bed. It turned out that these people had pictured their own bedroom, and sent it in as my bedroom. So I'm concidering moving into my host parents bedroom and stick their application on the door, cuz according to that, it's MY BEDROOM! ok. so the school is OK, there is this cool volunteer there from Scotland. He is staying there a one moore month, then he is leaving, and I can start acting schizofrenic and say monologues to myself in english. My advisor is named Pann (pron. Pen) and has been in Vermount for a year, so she speak pretty good englsih, and she is really caring. So the school is great so far. (ive only been ther for two days) the gave me flowers and stuff the first day, but no one helped me to prepare any speech, as AFS promised me they'd do. It went fine, just that it was a bit short. ok. I think this is enaugh for now, I'll come back with more later. I'm lonely up here in nowhere.