Temples, Sunburns, and the Thai culture of not giving an F

Today was a crazy day and there's no better way than to just write it all down at once. Will it fit into a nice, cohesive, brilliantly written blog post? Probably not. Does anyone care? Also probably not! So lets get right in to it.

Today we visited Ayutthaya. It's the old capital and filled with hundreds of ruins and temples, some still chugging along and others that burned down hundreds of years ago. The breathtaking beauty of this city cannot be described by words so keep a look out for pictures in lieu of a video this week about my trip. The amount of history in every brick of every temple was incredible and it honestly floored me. The highlight of the day was visiting a temple containing some of the spread ashes of Sidhartha Gautama (the historical Buddha) himself inside. However, while the ancient Thais were able to have the latest and greatest technologies at their disposal, such as roofs, many of the temples has moved past that stage into something known as "no roof" and so I got sunburnt pretty bad today. (that roof thing was a joke)

In other news, school technically started today. In further news, the two schools that I will split classes between this semester has no idea what my schedule is. Classes won't start in earnest until next week, but it's times like these that I can't help but remind myself; I would have had my schedule in the US months ago. Yet, none of the professors advising me seem panicked and are convinced everything will work out fine, so I have no choice but to trust them. Hopefully from this experience I can take a nice middle ground of US and Thai priorities. Perhaps it's not necessary to be ultra precise with scheduling and planning months in advance, but to me, this seems like pure insanity.

That's all for now,

-Max