First Day Of School and Fish Pedicure

Today we had the first day of classes where we had to get up at 7 in the morning to be sure that we were ready when the taxi truck picked us up to drive us to the business school which is about 2 miles away from the International Center that we are staying in.

We had our three classes and in between our second and third class we get a catered lunch everyday so that is something to look forward to trying new traditional Thai dishes. We then met the Thai professor who is going to be teaching our small business management class and she explained the class and told us about our project where we are going to start our own business and sell to the business students that attend the college.

We then had some down time on campus waiting to meet with the president of the university. We drove to the administration building and went into the very nice conference hall and met with the Vice President because the president had something come up at the last minute that he had to attend to. We learned all about the university and the history of all of the colleges. Then we took some photos and exchanged some gifts with each other and we were able to finally go home after a long day at class.

We all worked on our homework and such and then we all thought it sounded to go to the Mexican restaurant down the street so we all took the 10 minute walk to the restaurant called 'Manuels' and had something other than tradional Thai food for a change. (that wasn't McDonalds) This place had pitchers of margaritas for only 6 USD so we all decided to have a pitcher and when those were all done the girls saw a sign for a spa on the second level so they decided to check it out. We also saw a sign for a sports bar on the same level so we wanted to check that out as well. When we got up the stairs we saw a spa for your feet where you put them into a tank full of sucker fish and they eat all of your dead skin!!! We all contemplated doing it and then decided to do it because we are only going to be in Thailand once right??? When I put my feet in it was one of the strangest sensations I have even felt... In the beginning it felt like they were all tickling my feet and then after about 10 minutes it just feels like your feet have gone numb and you can finally relax and try and read a magazine...(that was all in Thai so we looked at the pictures)

All in all it was a really cool experience and my feet were really soft after wards so I guess it worked... the last photo is not me it is another one of the girls in the group but I wanted to show you an up close pic of the fishys!!!

Thats it for today... day two of class tomorrow!