The first complete week in here

Well, well, well. The first complete week we had is now behind us. It was also the first week of school and things are still a bit unclear at school. We are not 100% sure which classes we will be attending but I guess it will all straighten out after the next school week.

We only have school on mondays through thursdays now, so no school on friday and the weekend, but of course now that we also kickstarted our project, we still have lots to do during the friday and weekend as well. The schooldays were quite fun albeit we couldn't understand anything that was going on during the classes, because they were all taught in Thai and none of us can speak a word of Thai yet. But it's good that the teachers know how to speak English and they could clear a few things up for us after the class ended. I guess we still have to decide how to complete the courses though, as we are quite in a unique position now.

And like mentioned before, we started the initial design for our game project this week too. We scrapped the idea that we came up with before in Finland, but fortunately Kari already had an idea we could use for the project. This week we mainly did the outlines for the game and we will continue our work from there.

The weather has been quite okay in here and it has rained a few times. We are already getting a bit accustomed to the weather in here and it doesn't feel as hot as it did on the day we landed in Bangkok. The airconditioning inside the house has been superb and I'm already thinking how can I manage the summers in Finland without airconditioning, it feels so good to have a/c in the house.

As for the food in here, we already found a regular place to eat at school and also found a good place to eat at nearby next to our closest 7-11. The food at the school place and also at the restaurant is very good and quite cheap too, so we don't have to spend any extra money.

Yesterday we also went to the Futurepark with just the 4 of us, no local people with us. Getting there by a taxi was quite easy and we had tons of fun doing the shopping too. We bought some things we haven't had the chance to buy before and also ate there. We ate at a place called MK restaurants and the food was quite good, but we were a bit confused about how things work in there. But the waitress helped us understand how everything works and the food ended up being really tasteful. After the shopping trip there we had some problems getting a taxi back home, but eventually we did end up at our own doorstep, or gate actually, and all was good.

Tomorrow we will start our second week of school in here and I guess we will see how much homework we will get so we can calculate how much time we have for the project as well. As for me, I'm looking forward for the second week and looking forward to see our project progress too into (eventually) a full game.

Maybe next week we can update some more things about the project as well. We'll have to see how things end up going. Until the next time, bye! (And I really need to get a better camera so I can also add some pictures too, the one in my cellphone is quite bad at the end of the day.)