The typical day here really varies quite a bit, but here’s an attempt:
Wake up anytime from 8:00-9:00am, take my time getting ready for school (class starts at either 10:00am or 12:00pm, so I have time.) Grab an apple for breakfast, then grab the free shuttle to campus, or a motorcycle taxi (20 Baht, ~$0.66 USD.) Make it through class. Depending on the day, I grab coffee and lunch with friends, attend more classes, play ping pong with the Thai students, have Muay Thai (class or club,) get food from the surrounding area, go back to my apartment and study, go to a coffee shop and study, explore campus. It truly varies significantly from day to day. When I leave campus, I generally take the shuttle back (but sometimes I give up and take a taxi, the mosquitoes get unbearable by 6:00pm.)
Back at my apartment, I go up, typically shower (very sweaty from Muay Thai,) and see which friends are doing what. Dinner is mostly from a stand outside our apartment, (Tom Yam Kuaydiaw is my current favorite, spicy soup with pork and noodles) but often I go out to dinner with some Thai friends. After dinner, it’s typically hanging out wherever with whoever, and occasionally making a trip into Bangkok for dinner or to visit Chinatown, or go to a museum, or any of the other virtually unlimited options of things to do in Bangkok. I typically get to bed any time from 11:00pm to 2:00am, depending on how tired I am and what I’m doing that night.
The issue with picking a typical day is that there really isn’t one here. There are countless things to do within Thailand and in the surrounding area, and my life here revolves around doing as many of those as I can in the limited amount of time that I’m here. It’s easy to forget that I’m in school when weekends are spent in Taiwan and Singapore and tropical islands as far removed from a classroom as one can possibly imagine. The typical day is spent thinking of how to maximize time here; how to spend as much time with friends as possible, how to see as much as possible, how to do as much as possible. Additionally, I don’t have class on Fridays, and on Mondays my classes start at 12:00 pm. When I leave Thursday night, travel Friday through Sunday, and get back Monday morning, half of my week is spent traveling, and that makes finding a typical day even more difficult. It’s a really, really nice problem to have.
