-basically a whole day of travelling. from singapore to bangkok and from bangkok to rayong. and when we reached rayongwittayakom school.. WHOA. the way they welcomed us. just WhOa. they were like screaming and cheering and shouting and beating drums and some even kowtowing! 
goodness! such strong cheering spirit!
after that was some reception thingy where there was yummy ice cream and fruits and drinks for us. then we parted our ways and each went to our host house.
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day2- TUESDAY 15/11
the most tiring day. no. the most exhausting day. soso tiring and exhausting. my eyes were sort of puffed up and so small and i couldn't even smile at all.
there was a welcome ceromony for us in the morning and later that day we learned wai and how to write thai wordings and how to make kratong. then we were dismissed and i went to play bball and next went shopping with my buddy and a few of her friends. + dinner at a roadside stall, which i was a little worried that i would get a stomachache. luckily i didn't..phew
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day3- WEDNESDAY 16/11
woke up super early as we had to go to attyua. err.. aydttuya. no. ayudthaya.. [AHH i dunno how to spell] province, which was 4half hours journey from rayong. further than bangkok. ah!
when we reached we went to some exhibition thing and later at some other place, went around in small groups. -sightseeing, some shopping, and elehant riding. yay!
nice!
3 of us on the stage where we were bitten by ants
on the bridge
next we took the bus to the river and sailed down the river in a boat (duh!). dinner + karaoke on the boat. 
by then it was night time. and after the boat ride we 'set off' our kratongS and took a bus back to rayong. it was 12?am++ then. watched mr and mrs smith in the bus. yay! slept close to 3.
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day4- THURSDAY 17/11
learned how to cook tomyum soup and another thai dish. yummy!
next we went to our buddies' classroom. hmm their school life seems kind of relaxed. during school hours you can see students playing in the field and courts and chatting away at some other place. in the classroom the students talk all they want and blast their favourite music and sing along and the teacher doesn't say anything! *_*hmm.. 
after that was sports and some of us played volleyball and basketball against our thai friends. and all of us played tug-of-war in the rain in the field.
at night we watched.. harry potter! hmm i think too many parts were cut and some parts were changed.. like about ludo bagman, the part about barty crouch, karkaroff, and dobby giving gillyweed to harry, and harry asking cho chang to go to the ball with him. hmm.. too many changes. and if you watch the movie without 1st reading the book i think you wouldn't understand a single thing. X_X
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day5- FRIDAY 18/11
we had the rehearsal for the farewell party + we learned thai dancing until about 2.
and we went to sudhhatra land fruit orchard where we ate sooooo manyyyy fruits! i've never eaten so much in my life! whoohoo! yummyyummy! especially mango and durian! :p 
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day6- SATURDAY 19/11
free day with host today. my parents were in thailand too: dad- meeting, mum- tag along. and they came to visit my host.. and we went pattaya! planned to go to the beach at 1st.. ended up shopping a little. my parents took a plane back to singapore at about 2++pm .. so it's me and the host for the rest of the day. bought shirts and new shoes. yay! ^_^
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day7-SUNDAY 20/11
the worst afternoon of the trip today. before the farewell party we had to makeup and stuff.. so my host brought me to a shop in the market. and so i sat on a chair in front of a mirror and closed my eyes, and the makeup person did her work, and when i opened my eyes later, OMG! i looked horrible! my face was thickly powered, there was lipstick and eyeshadow, my eyebrowns were plucked, eyelashes curled.. ARrggh! X_X next they styled my hair.. all combed up and later dunno-how-much-gel-was-put, my hair turned hard and sort of crispy. BLEH X__X
went to school and muahaha almost everyone was liddat too. except AP jh who came to school at 5 (when everyone came at 2 )and didn't have that much make-up on. hmmpf! not fair! >.<
the farewell party at night went quite well and after dinner and our performances, there was dance! yay! ahaha. the duh dance and the boxing dance. wheehee so fun! after that there were alot of hugs and some cried.. it was as though we were never gonna see our thai friends again.
oh yes! another thing.. many thai girls fell in love with rodion. eg like non! ahaha
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last day- MONDAY 21/11
it's byebye thailand today.. :/ early in the morning we took bus to bangkok.yay! watched war of the worlds on the way:D
halfway there was a short stop where we bought tibits. once we reached the airport we checked in. [wahhhh! no time for shopping! we could only shop in the airport. which was reallyreally damm ex. ahh!] and there were many hugs again and all our thai buddies except some of the boys cried. :( 
it's back to singapore. byebye BIGbig mass of flies and mosquitos and stray dogs and darkness at night. i miss everything but those. ahh.
so that's STEP. quite ok right? next year march our thai buddies will be coming to singapore. 4 more months! hmm wonder how they will find singapore.. prices for most things here are much higher than in rayong. i spent roughly 3000 baht on: 1 addidas shoe and shirt, 1 nike shirt, 1 slingbag, a souvenier, 6 bars of chocalate[yumyum i ate alot :p], 2 chewing gum, 5 packs of crackers, tibits, 7 bottles of green tea and mineral water, aiport tax, and donated some.. hmm 130+- s'pore$ . with this amt of money i think i would only be able to buy a shoe and shirt here.
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anyway, gtg sleep.. byebye!