...Wow.
It has really felt like a year. Usually, people say that time flies when you're on a program like this. Not so with me. Not that the experience hasn't been awesome, 'cause it has. But the curriculum is filled with times for ~reflection and ~group-led facilitation. So that takes a lot of time, and it really feels like I'm in a business-oriented, corporate meeting whenever we have lectures and briefings about what we're learning about.
These past two-ish weeks have been filled with background lectures on some of the issues that are relevant now (Thai history and politics) and some that we're covering later (human rights, urbanization, globalization). We also found out which units that we're facilitating! I'm doing the units on human rights (in which we will get to go to Bangkok to an all-Southeast Asian conference on the subject) and mining (which I know nothing about)! Yay!
But our very first unit has to do with AGRICULTURE. And farming! And organic farming vs. farming with GMOs/chemical fertilizers! Yeah! They kind of kept us in the dark as to where we're actually going to be going, but I know that we're going to a village as well as the city of Yasothon at some point. To my knowledge, we're going even further East towards Laos. So that's kinda cool.
That's kind of it. Oh, another fun thing: my computer absolutely died. Like, hard drive was dead. So I took it to some random laptop repair shop, and they replaced my hard drive AND gave me Windows 7, Photoshop CS3, and the Microsoft Suite for 1550 Baht, which is about $52ish. So I got a pretty good deal. Unfortunately, now everything's in Thai. I guess that'll be useful in practicing my Thai... Hah.. hah.
Anyway, see you all in a week! :D
Your blog is amazing! <3
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