Moving Day

Today is the day when we will finally be moving into our own house. For the past two weeks we have stayed with two lovely families in Uthai Thani, basically living it up in comfort; I'm talking air conditioning, lovely food and wifi. Everyone has been really kind to us, making sure that we're OK, helping us out if we had a problem and taking us places, seeing things. And now we have to give all that up. It's time to move into the house and fend for ourselves...
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The things we have heard about our house to be have not been good. We have heard the word "inconvenient" used, to put it politely, and it has been cleaned about a dozen times, by everyone from the janitor to a class of students studying Japanese one afternoon instead of lessons.

At the moment we think the heat is going to be the most difficult thing to deal with, after having slept in the comforting cool for two weeks, but we feel positive about running the house (I think).

(Funny story about the air con at our current host family's house; I think in the last few days Tonicha has been trying to make the most of the air con before we move to a house with just a fan. Because of this, I woke up the other day really early in the morning simply because it was too flipping cold! It had been turned down to about 20 degrees (or so the air con remote said -- it felt colder), so I had to go out of the room and warm up. In the end I gave up and just turned the air con off.)

I'm going to put a few pictures up here soon, as well as posting some things about our experiences so far, but I thought I'd get this note up here as a way of hopefully kick-starting this blog up again.

And if you've been looking at my Facebook you will have seen pictures already of how things are going.

I'll leave you with this one of Tonicha and I at a hilltop temple in Nakhon Sawan this weekend just gone.