Day 215

One of my co-teachers (Neung, in the picture from yesterday), brought me two pairs of traditional Thai pants today! Now I have something to wear on Thursdays for traditional Thai dress day at school, yay! Thanks Neung! Now I just have to figure out what to wear on top...

In other news, flooding is expected to reach Bangkok this weekend. It's reached it already actually, the northern parts of the city already have some flooding. School was canceled for tomorrow and all the stores are out of bottled water and ramen. We should be fine, I don't think much will happen where we are. The country is in disaster mode though:

Epic monsoon rains and typhoons have battered a vast swath of Asia relentlessly this year, killing hundreds of people from the Philippines to India and inflicting billions of dollars in damage over the last four months. Thailand is among the hardest hit; the floods here are the worst in half a century, claiming more than 280 lives since late July.

Flood waters have swamped more than two-thirds of the country, submerging rice fields and shutting down hundreds of factories. American computer hard drive manufacturer Western Digital Corp. and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. became the latest to suspend production in Thailand on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said many provinces could remain submerged for the next two months, according to state broadcaster MCOT.

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