Earthquake?

It's 9:48pm...we just had a meeting to brainstorm a name for the project. We threw out some good words, but the ultimate proposed titles seemed a little cheesy or cliche to me. Oh well, we'll see what they (the design team and coaches) choose.

At the end of the meeting, they informed us that a 6.7 magnitude earthquake happened off the coast of India about 2 hours ago. The center was almost due east of where we are right now. There is no tsunami warning yet and no deaths/injuries reported. I know it's fairly unlikely that another tsunami will happen, but it's definitely not a welcome thing to hear.

Now it's 1:23am. I've been sitting here way too long sorting through the 500+ photos that I've taken in the past two days. I just met with my coach, Pailin, and she said I'm doing really well and pretty much ahead of everyone else. She gave me some great tips so I can keep going back and getting better shots. I think I've got a lot of good shots and a handful of great ones. A few more days of shooting and it will be wonderful.

I woke up at 6:45am-ish today, got ready, went to breakfast. Then I was supposed to leave at 8am to go to Phuket, but Pat decided to put Zach in my van. Zach wasn't supposed to go out today, but Pat wanted him to go at the last minute. So we didn't leave Khao Lak until 9:30, meaning I didn't get to the massage place until about 11am. So I took some photos, then got lunch with Num, then more photos. Then I chatted some more with the manager of the place and got some great info.

The van picked Num and I up at 2:15 and then we picked up Zach and Jinda in the center of Phuket. We had to pick up one of the coaches at the airport, so we waited there for a bit. Then we drove home!

I went to dinner with 7 other people today and we ordered family style. Surprisingly, I could eat a lot of it. The fried rice was actually spicy, I have no idea why. Then we went to 7-11 and then back to the resort. That's when we had the meeting, and then I sorted photos and met with Pailin, and now here I am. Exhausted.

I'm getting better at speaking Thai, but I only know things like ordering food and saying thank you. I'm worried about not having a translator at the massage place if it comes down to that.

Tomorrow I'm leaving here at noon (yessss sleeping in) to go do my video interview. Kendrick is coming to help me and Num is coming to translate. It's my first time doing video, so hopefully I can figure it out.

I'll probably go stay in Phuket for a night so I can see the massage place at night and early in the morning. I wouldn't stay at the massage place because it's tiny and so gross.

Okay, I need to get some sleep. Sorry for the short uninteresting update, it's just been a long, hot day. I'll try to write a more in-depth entry soon!