Welcome

So, this is my blog to chronicle my experiences while studying abroad in Thailand for the next four months of my life. I have other blogs, but I figure this is easier to access and should hopefully be free of drama, just telling everyone that takes a second to actually check it a little bit about what I'm doing on the other side of the planet.

Just a brief introduction to the whole thing:

Anthony Karge, my best friend for the last five or six years of my life and I applied and were accepted to the SUNY Brockport Thailand program, administered by Mahidol University International College, which is about 15 minutes north of Bangkok, as I understand it. We will be living in dormitory buildings that are quite like the ones we live in in Oswego, only they look a hell of a lot cleaner and nicer from the photographs that I've seen so far, which isn't a surprise because most of the resident buildings in Oswego are awful.

I have no idea what classes I will be taking. We get to pick out our classes a couple of days after we get there. I'm hoping that I can take three political science/international politics classes while I'm there. Specifically, I'm looking to take a class they offer on Human Rights, another on Cultural Studies, and then finally one on Southeast Asian Studies. I think those will all be interesting experiences and I think I can learn a lot and hopefully get credit back, too.

So now, I'm starting to back up and get prepared for leaving the United States for the first time in my life and traveling across the entire world and living there for four months. It's going to be a unique experience and hopefully this blog will be filled with those experiences. I'll try my best to write an update when we touch down in Thailand on Monday evening (Monday morning here), but after a 17 1/2 hour non-stop flight from NYC to Bangkok and literally an entire day spent traveling to and from airports, I'm not sure I'm going to be in the mood for much of anything.