Three expectations and two goals.
1. Through the home stays in two considerably rural villages and the trip to Bangkok I feel as though it is reasonable for me to know about the cultural conflicts that lie within the country
2. Spicy food
3. I only know my mother's experience of Thai life and culture. She left Thailand at the age of 22, so while I feel I can draw expectations from her stories, I would like to and expect to find the difference of her life here and my own experience studying abroad here. (This includes generational differences as well.)
1. I would like to be able to navigate my way around Chiang Mai efficiently enough so that I don't look like a lost tourist all the time
2. When I go home, I hope to be able to speak Thai well enough to hold a conversation with my brother if not mother ( One who speaks Thai at an intermediate level the next fluently, respectively)
While I realize the expectation piece of this seems rather light, that is because I'm not sure quite what to expect and I prefer it that way. This is to say, I expect to learn and I expect o have a good time but that is as far as I would like to go with it. If too many expectations are made, than the experience will be changed and I'd like to look back on my semester abroad as clearly as possible.
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