Finally a little free time today after meeting my roommate in Khon Kaen. We have been going nonstop 7 days a week. We are staying with a host family this week and going to school with third graders. This is still part of orientation. My family is crazy. I live at a restaurant with a family of 20. The first night they took me drinking and fed me four dinners (seriously. four.) and showed me the temples and the strip clubs. The next nights were less crazy, but I have had no time to do homework. We have been learning Thai pretty quickly though. We finished the "alphabet" and I can write most things I hear even if I can't pronounce the many vowels, and conversations are getting slightly less awkward. Next week we will do another homestay in the slums. I will have more time to write this weekend. Until then, sawadee!