life in bangkok

First week of school life in Thailand is going well. Classwork seems far less rigorous than Kellogg, but the classes are generally pretty interesting. I'm currently enrolled in Competitive Strategy, Managing Human Capital in a Global Context and Spreadsheet Modeling. Most of the classes are 3.5 hours long with a 30 minute break in between. So I generally have class from 8:30-12:00 and then 1:00-4:30 every day of the week.

The best part of school by far is the outdoor swimming pool that is adjacent to the cafeteria. We often eat lunch pool side - certainly better than the LSR, and it's nice to go for a swim after class :)

So far the workload has allowed me to continue to explore Bangkok. On Tuesday I went to the Arab quarter for some tasty Lebanese food with a few Kellogg students. I hadn't been to that part of town yet, and after discovering how lively it is and how much great food there appears to be, I'll definitely be heading back. Wednesday we went to the Calypso Cabaret show, which was... interesting. Not sure how to describe it other than a lot of Thai lady-boys dancing for 45 minutes... yikes.

Anyway, here are a few pictures from school and from in and around the city over the last couple days. This weekend I'm sticking around here, hitting up a market or two and perhaps heading north Sunday to the ancient capital of Ayuthaya.