House

Right then, our house has 5 bedrooms (1 with en-suite), 3 bathrooms (including 1 on the ground floor with a urinal for the boys - every home should have one!), 5 floors and a "pet" lizard in the kitchen which gave me a bit of a shock when I arrived. It's pretty nice actually - much better than I was prepared for (the house that is - not the lizard).

At the moment I'm living with 4 other people (3 of whom arrived a few days before me). There's one guy from America who's been here for 4 months so he's been able to show us round and read the Thai menus when we go out to eat (more on Thai food in a later post - I'll take a few pictures as well).

I have just sorted out Thai lessons today. I plan to do 6 hours a week (2 hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights)...it's going to cost 1000 Baht for a month, which is less than 15 quid, and the guy's going to come round to the house to do them! I reckon it's absolutely essential that I get them - Thai is simple in some ways (no conjugation of verbs for example) but very difficult in others (it is a tonal language so the meaning of a word changes completely depending on whether it is said with a mid, high, low, rising or falling tone...to the untrained ear, i.e. mine, it can be quite difficult to tell the difference).

Some people said they might want to send me stuff by snail mail so here is the address you can use:

Paul McGuiness
c/o CCD
PO Box 47
Pakkred
Nonthaburi 11120
Thailand