First Week with Volunteer Organization

This first week was such a different experience with people back from home.
As much as Nikki and Elyse distract me, and make me even more happy and less alone,
we end up talking about home a lot. It makes me think about everything i have left... my family and friends..wes... my securities... in some ways its a good thing that I am able to talk about home. In other ways its just making me more homesick!
The first week has been great though.
We were taken to Singburi in airconditioned vans. We met a nineteen year old girl named Famke who was from the Netherlands. She was working in Australia all ready for six months and then doing thailand for another couple months. We met a German guy named Dominic who was going to do a temple stay with the monks for 2 months! We have met all sorts of people in our first week. Its nice to have a good group to share the experiences.
Our Accomodation that will become our home for the next four weeks, is very relaxing. We have really enjoyed being away from the big city and in a small village next to little huts and howling dogs... well maybe not enjoying the howling dogs... nikki hates it. We are surrounded with gardens. Our room is small with three bunk beds. Its supposed to fit six people but having four is plenty! Especially us girls who love to spread everything everywhere. We have a leaky sink that smells a little like sewage and geckos crawling all over our walls. We actually have one that has never left us. We called him Joe the gecko. we can tell its him because he has no tail!
The days have been full of events. We were taken into town to shop in the markets and to the pool to cool off in this absolutely boiling weather.
We have learned So much thai in our lessons. Elyse was so proud of her self when she managed to have a pretty full conversation with our cook at the Twin house. We are finding it very useful when bardering in the Tuesday market in the local village.
I must head out for dinner.. we have dinner at 5:00? its a little hard to adjust to ... we are never really hungry at 5:00!