Outside the Grand Palace

Day one of Fun

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June 18th 2006
After a five hour nap on the worlds firmest mattress, I woke up rather refresshed and ready to tackle my first full day in Bangkok. The whole group met at 8am in our classroom to have our first orientation meeting with Dr. Lash. After a quick overview of our accellerated class schedule (our first test is already on Wednesday!) he took us over to the student dining hall (think open-aired mall foo ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more