AIESEC camp and waterfall

After a week in Thailand I’ve already experienced so much! On Saturday morning we went to the induction camp for new AIESEC members of LC Bangkok University. The adventure started at the Bangkok University, where we all got on the funkiest looking bus I’ve ever seen. It reminded me more of a bus for school kids because it was so colorful: the outside had pictures painted on it in vivid colors, the inside was decorated with lots of colors too. I enjoyed the scenery on the way there. We started the camp with some AIESEC roll calls. After a get to know each other session and some teambuilding games we had some sessions, mostly in Thai… which continued on the next day. That evening we had a party, though it was nothing compared to the AIESEC parties I’m used to. Still, I realized it’s really hard when almost all the songs are in Thai and everyone else is singing along but you (and there was actually more singing than dancing…).

The best part of the weekend – other than meeting lots of very nice people – was the Nang Rong Waterfall we went to on Sunday afternoon. It was located in a beautiful park/forest where the vegetation was so different! At first I was just going to get my feet wet, but the water looked too tempting and I got in with my clothes on. There were about 25 AIESECers all in the water splashing around and having fun. While everyone else thought the water felt cold, it felt good to me, probably warmer than most pools on a hot day ;) And of course the air is also always very warm. We were able to “slide” down a tiny water fall which was quite fun. That evening we took the colorful bus back to the university. The bus ride home wasn’t boring at all: there was Thai music blasting the whole way home, a poker game going on in the back of the bus, and everyone walking around taking pictures. I did finally fall asleep when we got stuck in traffic - imagine a traffic jam on a Sunday night at 9 pm!