Finding my niche

It's been a while since my last post, I know. A lot of things have happened over the past few weeks and I am finally feeling comfortable in Bangkok. I walk down the street and don't give it a seconds thought that the sidewalks are so uneven that I will probably trip at least twice, that is if the sidewalk even exists. On the smaller side streets (called sois), there aren't any sidewalks so you always have to look for cars, motor bikes, food vendor carts, etc. I feel pretty confident getting around to new areas as well. Last Saturday night we went to a music and arts festival and found our way by memory, without using a map. Success! The fest was really awesome. It seemed like there were a lot of other expats there and felt very much like something I would go to in the US. It gave me that feeling of having good natured people all in one area with the same interest in art and music.

We also found a bar called WTF (not with the meaning of those letters that we would think in the US, I think it's German) which feels like a bar that would be in Chicago. Very hipster, but I kind of like that!

Meeting new friends has been pretty easy through a social networking group called Internations. I heard about it from my friend Eric who has a friend who lives in Bangkok. I happened to get a hold of him and he said ere was an event happening the following day. We went. It was awesome. People were so open and friendly. Most are just looking for people to socialize with. Everyone there spoke English, but there were people from so many different places: Nigeria, UK, Australia,France, Germany, China, etc. Of course once we met all these people, we are hanging out with them frequently. A guy from NYC is traveling around Asia, just happened to go to the event, 2 df his friends from Detroit and Philadelphia flew in the next day and we all rented a car and went to the beach for a day. They left Bangkok for other adventures, but I don't doubt that I will see them again!

Some days here are definitely more successful than others. This past Tuesday was kind of an epic fail day for me. Ants are all over our kitchen so I spend a bit of time. Everyday killing the,. Of course they ended up in our peanut butter which I didn't notice until it was too late :S this same day I went on a 2 hour walk around an area called Silom in search of a place that I had an interview and still never found the building. Of course it' was 95 degrees out so I was. Hot and thirsty. Thought I would stop to get a nice healthy and refreshing smoothie from one of the street vendors. Instead of getting what I thought was a strawberry smoothie, I got strawberry milk made from strawberry syrup. Not exactly what I wanted. Getting my hands on food is sometimes a struggle too. Especially when Ian working out, I get really hungry if I don't eat every 2 hours and don't function quite as well as when I am full. This particular day I felt hungry ALL DAY LONG!! No matter what I ate, it just didnt fill me up. So of course i did not handle all the things that were happening on this epic fail of a day very well to say the least.

But the next day was a new day and better things happened. I'm still not working, but hopefully that is going to change soon. I have the potential to work at a summer kindergarten position which starts at the beginning of March. And the school for teaching dance wants me to come back for some kind of second interview, but that job doesn't begin until August.

What I really really want to do is go take a dance class. It's kind of expensive, but I think I am going to just do it anyway. I can't go this long without dance in my life!!

I guess that's it for now. Talk to you next time!!