First Performance!

      I never realized just how much effort goes into a dance performance. Our teacher was literally getting her belt of flowers handmade and hot glued around her waist, talk about custom made. Not to mention the fact we were surrounded by about 20 men, all of which who were gay and did wonders with our hair and makeup! 

     The exhibition got bumped back an hour as did our dance time. We danced at 7 but got there at 4:30. So by the time ended around 830 or 9 of course we were starving. But the nerves made me forget until after the performance which was good. Overall I think we did pretty well, but all that effort went into one dance, I can't imagine what it will be like this Friday with FIVE dances to do. 

     Also, just my luck, the one day we have the performance and it matters to be like really happy and smiling, I get some type of stomach bug. It started the day before and it made me feel nauseous and just all over horrible. I still feel kinda sick but today, as I write this, we leave for one of our included excursions! It's off to Sukkothai. I am up so early because again with just my luck my bathroom is broken, and the repairmen came yesterday morning at 9am but  still were not finished and have to come back again this morning at 9am. I guess workmen in Thailand are the same as America, slow and steady. So I have been wandering the halls knocking on the other American doors in order to borrow their bathrooms and take quick showers and use a working toilet. Luckily this weekend we go to Sukkothai so I get to have a working bathroom, or at least I think so...

    Bonus is that I have to wear my uniform, for the first time as well. But this place we are going is even hotter than Chiang Mai. I am talking a low of 100 degrees.... I'll update you when I return.

Beginning stages of getting ready

The Fingernail Dance

Supportive Thai Roommates 

Yes that is a guy in the pink, gorgeous

 Second time dancing, some late comers wanted to see it so we did it with live music which was much slower and threw us off a little.

One of many entire group shots!