I've been doing the Pimsleur Thai language audio course, in fact I'm almost half finished. It's 30 lessons total and I'm about to do lesson 15. It's really interesting, but very challenging. Thai is another tonal language, like mandarin, but with more tones and some sounds that are really quite foreign to me. I don't think I'll really be able to say much after I finish the course but I also wouldn't want to be learning any faster than I am, it's tough enough as it is. It is really fun learning a new language though, besides Chinese, I am so sick of Chinese. Sick of Chinese and sick of China! I'm sure after being home for a while I'll get over it, hopefully anyway. I haven't been studying my classical Chinese at all lately, I think I'll wait until I'm home and have fonder feelings about this place. It would also be nice to take an actual class, if there's one available, I've just been learning on my own all these years but I think learning some new methods would be really helpful at this point.

It's rained and cooled off quite a bit so we're all much happier and sleeping better. I have my fingers crossed that it'll stay cool at least for another few days.

Less than 4 weeks!