I didn’t wake up with the dreads this morning.  What?  How is that possible?  I didn’t wake up excited to be awake, but still, no dreading life.  Cool.  Maybe because I figured it would be an easy first day back to work and it was.  I filled out some paperwork, printed some things, had a long lunch with some of the other teachers and went home early.  Only two grades started school today – the new ones starting M1 and M4 which has some returning students and a lot of new students.  The rest of the classes will start on Wednesday.

I was hoping to get a mat and some pillows to make a “couch”.  There was a store that Tip and Ging told me about that was closed yesterday.  Pat said she’d take me by it today after we ran some other errands. I don’t have anything too pressing to do so errands sound great.  We went and picked up Dam’s mother and took her to several stores and a market in Ban Tak.  Really, where was this town the whole month of February?  I’ve never heard of it and now I’ve been there twice in two days.  Dam’s mother doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Thai, but we bonded over how hard it was to get in the tall truck  and over how hot it was.  We found a fan in the back seat and took turns fanning each other.  When we dropped her off, she grabbed my hand and just held it tight for a few seconds.  Then we went looking for the pillow store.  It either doesn’t exist or it was closed.

I still have a mouse in my bathroom.  I still don’t like this fact.

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