Welcome to San Diego!! Part 1/2

After being extremely busy for a while, I finally have some time to update my blog. This is the first time in my life to stay away from home for a very long time ALONE. First of all, thank you Aryee, N'J and three of my friends for seeing me off.

Here are new galleries I added today:

Bye Bye Thailand	Cardiff-by-the-sea
My Apartment

Wed 29 Aug 07
My journey from Bangkok to San Diego took me about 20 hours. It was very long and tiresome trip. Every meal on airplane was extremely terrible and made me feel sick T__T. Anyway, I successfully arrived at San Diego Airport and met Nick and Ann Stahl, who were going to be my host family for the first few days. We had already exchanged email and pictures, so we could recognize each other as soon as we met. Then, we went back home. Nick and Ann's house was located in northern part of San Diego called Cardiff-by-the-sea. Cardiff is a small lovely town close to the beach. People here are very nice and friendly.

Thurs 30 Aug 07
I woke up around 6am and couldn't sleep any longer. That's not bad for first day. I have some hot cereals with fruits for breakfast. Normally, Nick and Ann would have cold cereal, fruits and some milk every morning. After American breakfast, we went to check in at Campus. Then, we had a Mexican food for lunch!! Mexican food here was quite better than I expected. I had something called burrito. It's a very big tortilla (คล้ายๆโรตีใหญ่ๆ) wrapped around grilled chicken and combination of vegetables.

After a very big lunch, we went to see my apartment. That's when I faced another big problem. My room was very close to freeway and so noisy from traffic below. I needed to do something about it. Then, we went back home. We're having baked chicken with rhubarb source for dinner. This was a great chance for me to learn how to fix western dinner from Ann. It's really great and delicious meal.

Fri 31 Aug 07
Nick and I took Benjy out for a walk this morning. Benjy is an old but very cute dog. He got injured in his spines and couldn't use his back legs for many years. Therefore, we had to attach some kind of wheelchair to his back legs to help him walk. He barked at every stranger including me hahaha. He is a lovely dog anyway :P

Today we went to many places to buy furniture. First, we went to Salvation Army which sold tons of second-hand furniture. Then, we proceeded to Ikea, a famous and big furniture store with Scandinavian modern style of design. Another place we went is Costco which is a wholesale store like Macro in Thailand.

We went to Housing Office to discuss about changing my apartment. But it seemed I couldn't change the room for free... Well, I needed to talk to my father and my roommate before making any decision. There was going to be a long weekend because the next Monday is Labor Day, so I had so much time to think about it. Tonight we had dinner at Italian Restaurant with Dalton and Paula who were very close friends of Nick and Ann. This was my first time to Italian restaurant like this. I ordered Seafood Pizza. It was very delicious. Nevertheless, it was too large for me to eat all of it, so I took the rest back home. Tonight I learned a great lesson. Dalton and Paula asked me a lot of questions, but I just sat still and never asked them anything... maybe because I was shy and unfamiliar with situation. But actually, it's polite to ask them some questions in return to learn anything from them and show interest in them.