Chiang Mai part 4

16th October 2015 - The day that it had all been leading up to.

TEST DAY

Literally felt so sick, I was incredibly worried about failing the test.

We went to school and straight away sat down and took the test. It was so difficult! We had only finished learning the material the day before!

Thankfully, we only had to wait a couple of hours to find out if we had passed or not. I had! I managed to get 43/50!

                             

After lunch we all went to a couple of museums with our teachers but the tour guides who took us round only spoke broken English, this combined the 40C heat (which was hot for this time of year) meant it was pretty difficult to concentrate on what was being said.

Back at the language centre we all went and sat in the auditorium (after gulping down water) where we received our certificates and listened to a talk by a guy who I think was the manager of the centre. 

Finally, after he had finished talking we all got pizza!! I even got persuaded to try some green fanta which actually tastes pretty good!

Our class at AUA

That evening we all went to our local 'Thai 1 On' to celebrate! We were meeting Nici for a teacher training sesh the next day but that didn't stop a bunch of us from leaving the bar to go do some dancing at our favourite 'Zoe in Yellow'!

The training session was really useful and so worth the treacherous journey there (which involved a lot of traffic, a lot of getting lost and our red truck running out of petrol and having to roll down hills).

That evening was our last one all together in Chiang Mai before we all went our separate ways - so we made something of it. We started off in the uber cool rooftop bar which played great music whilst everyone sat round little tables on a bamboo floor overlooking the wall around Old Town Chiang Mai. Next up was, of course, Zoe in Yellow! Finally followed by Spicy (which resulted in it being shut by the police because it was open past midnight). 

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Chiang Mai is so amazing! By the end of our three weeks here this place had begun to feel like home and I will miss it so much!