{"id":29,"date":"2017-09-24T23:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/?p=29"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:15:54","slug":"27-days-into-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/2017\/09\/24\/27-days-into-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Days into Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on the first 27 days on Thailand? Well, I can certainly tell you that I have had one of the best times of my life here so far. At first, it can be scary to think about going to a new country especially when all your friends and family are warning you about the possible dangers, every second of every minute but what\u00a0country doesn&#8217;t have their up and their downs. Upon arrival, I could immediately tell why this country was called the &#8220;Land of Smiles&#8221;.\u00a0Every corner I turned, I saw someones genuine smile just for the heck of it! The locals are so amazingly nice and they&#8217;re willing to help you whenever you&#8217;re stuck in a situation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, fast forwarding to what I&#8217;ve done these past days (I&#8217;ll post about each individual activity after but for now I&#8217;ll give a summary)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/09\/IMG_0942_opt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/09\/IMG_0942_opt.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/09\/IMG_0942_opt-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/09\/IMG_0942_opt-393x300.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Got to meet amazing people in my program and school<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fed and gave baths to elephants at a sanctuary<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saw 7 beautiful waterfalls all in one\u00a0hike<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Got to experience an awesome\u00a0night life<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life in color (An EDM concert) with my Thai classmates<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Visit a female temple and learned their way of mediating\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A friends trip to Koh Samet \u00a0(a beautiful island)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Experienced a floating market (Ampawa)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Slept on the floating hut over the ocean!!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Explored Bangkok and Salaya + my university<\/li>\n<li>and Seen about beautiful 4 temples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is so much more that I haven&#8217;t listed but I am definitely excited for what the rest of my time in Thailand has for me!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on the first 27 days on Thailand? Well, I can certainly tell you that I have had one of the best times of my life here so far. At first, it can be scary to think about going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/2017\/09\/24\/27-days-into-thailand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/bangkok-thailand-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}