Today was a roller coaster of “I don’t want to do this”. and “It’ll be ok”.  We went over our lesson plans for tomorrow.  Tomorrow we are teaching all day at a school – 6 classes.  We are in pairs and each pair will be teaching the lesson plan we created last night to each of the classes we are assigned to.  I’m not excited to do this, but I am curious about how I will feel about teaching after a full day of it.

Tonight after dinner, I thought I’d try something different so I ordered a caramel tea with milk pudding.  I had no idea what that meant and I’m still not quite sure.  I tasted like iced tea with caramel sauce in it.  It was milky too.  Then at the bottom were large ice cube sized chunks of super sweet gooey gelatinous stuff.  It was drinkable, but overall, it was just wrong.  I will not order that again.  I’ve had ice cream inside mochi – mochi ball – I’d highly recommend this gelatin delight.  One night I had what looked like deep fried broccoli.  Nope.  It was deep fried something with the flavor of garlic and scallions.  I called it gummy scallions.  It was one of the weirdest things I’ve ever had, but I’d do it again.  There are all sorts of gummy candies.  They put black jello on rice and call it dessert.  There’s boba tea and then all sorts of versions of drink that resemble that, but are not quite that.  What is this fascination Thais have with gelatin?

Had a great lunch today at a cute place that had bull dogs running around the restaurant.  I’m sure it’s sanitary.  Nothing gelatinous there.  One of the bulldogs came running up to me and gave me his toy.  Then he jumped up in my lap and demanded attention.  When I went to give my camera to a friend to take a picture, he then started barking at me and growling.  I think maybe it was a cat in a bull dog body.

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