Wow, this was a tough weekend. I thought all weekend about bagging it and heading out for greener pastures. I am so isolated here! I can't communicate, I can't read a sign, I cannot figure out how to get a taxi or hire a driver, nobody understands me - I am so lost.

I sat in my little room all day Saturday and Sunday trying to talk myself down. I know it will get better once I know my way around but it is so hard! I went out Saturday and walked the main street but since I can't read Thai, I had no idea what anything was. Is it a food shop, a beauty parlor, or a pharmacy? I have no idea unless I walk in and look stupid. I asked scads of people where or if I could hire a taxi and they either didn't understand or said, "no taxi."  Except for the boy at the condo office who vacillated between "yes yes yes" and "no no no" each time I asked him for a taxi number. "Yes, the taxi is coming?"   "Yes yes yes"  "So you called a taxi?"  "No no no." 

I finally went to the 7-11, the only store I recognize and stocked up on fast food, yogurt, cereal - survival food.

There was a teacher at the university who helped me get the apartment and took me shopping to get necessities but she seems to have fulfilled her obligation and moved on. 

I'm so screwed.

I need to make connections, I need to meet people, I need to learn to read Thai. Fast.   Plus I am so bored - I mean, you can only read and surf the net so long and even that gets old. I'd like to go to a gym or find a church but the hope of communicating that to anyone here is nil.

Am I being a big baby?