Thanksgiving eve

Today was long! Always wake up so early! It was 6am today. Ugh! Why? Lol I see the sun rise like every day. Which is nice :) cultures class we had oral quiz and I did just fine. Then in dance we kept learning our bamboo dance where we step in and out of moving bamboo sticks. Then some work on the computer in the library before learning about how to talk about being sick in Thai. Then we had an interview with a Shan woman. The Shan are an ethnic group in Myanmar. They have been fighting for about 60 years against the Burmese government for their own separate state. There are more Shan then the entire population of Laos. But anyway she was very cool and had come to Thailand almost twenty years ago for work and has worked at Payap for almost ten years. It was really cool to hear about her life and her opinions on different things we have been studying. She speaks the Shan language which is extremely similar to the northern Thai dialect. This is because before WWII and SEA colonization the Shan state and northern Thailand were not separateted by an arbitrary boarder. So the Shan and northern Thais can still understand each other and have close ties which I think is cool. Then a good dinner of veggies and glass noodles and fruit. Then I worked on my locks and then reading :)