Chels leigh

As we fly home, we already experienced some excitement with my camera. As we headed towards our first security stop, Yui calls Sarah to tell her that Fah has my camera! This all started because I had two carry-on items already and I needed someone to carry my camera, so I gave it to Katie. During our final goodbyes, Katie must have passed the camera for Fah to hold and she accidently left the airport with it! This camera has been temporarily left behind multiple times during the flight home (not going to lie, I was losing trust in Katie quickly). Our flight home was very long to say the least. Especially with my sick stomach, that only added extra annoyance on a long flight home. The plane ride back was a good time for ... read more

I mine as well continue the pattern of listing my breakfast since I’m almost done. Breakfast was rice and broth soup, and Chinese doughnuts. However, I woke up feeling pretty sick, more or less a malaise feeling. In that case, I only ate one bite of soup and a bite from the doughnut and drank my cup of coffee. In the morning we went to Kad Laung, a market that we went to on our very first day in Thailand. I was able to buy a hat that I spotted that first evening and bought it, what a long wait to purchase it! I also bought a pork pan dish that I’m super excited about. We went to the grocery store in the afternoon and I found this to be very similar to our grocery store, ... read more

Let’s talk about breakfast, fried chicken wings, delicious stir fry with rice and soup! This morning we attended the Nursing Student Conference in which multiple schools from around Thailand attended and presented. The presentations were mainly on topics such as non-communicable diseases, stroke, diabetes and youth prevention of obesity. Our students from Messiah presented on obesity as well. It was pretty interesting learning about the common preventative and follow up care Thailand uses compared to the US. It is often found that services will follow up with you by visiting your home to check how you are doing and to make sure you are still on track for a targeted health plan. In the evening, Aubrey, Katie, Sarah, Emily and I went out to dinner with Mint, the nurse from the Neuro ICU from NKP ... read more

Now let’s get serious about breakfast… how about endless ordering of food from omelets to waffles and crepes! Our day was filled with hours of snorkeling and swimming in the Gulf of Thailand, off of Koh Chang. After diving into the water, I was a bit hesitant as I am instinctively afraid of fish (even though I love to eat them). The thing is, I’ve practically grown up on the water and swam with fish my whole life, I just don’t have a fond love of them surrounding me and touching my legs while I swim. Needless to say, I got over this rather quickly today! The fish were absolutely beautiful, especially the rainbow-colored fish! After a few different snorkeling spots, I kept grabbing random masks on the boat. To be honest, this really grossed ... read more

Rise and shine, its breakfast time. This morning we had rice with a sweet tasting meat on top served with half a boiled egg with a crispy shell around it and a side of chicken soup. Our clinical this morning was at the Elderly Club at the Sanmeung Temple. This was interesting as we had the opportunity to listen to everyone pray to Buddha for just about a half an hour. I was not able to understand them; however, I think it would be interesting to know what they are saying. I wonder if some of the Buddhists have the half hour long prayer memorized as it was read from a large pamphlet. The exercises we did with the elderly went extremely well. I would say that I got a heads up on how flexible ... read more