Personally, the flood has completely devastated my life in AIT. The campus where I lived every single 13 years of my life is now submerged under 3 meters of water (check out the photo, the floors you're seeing are the third and fourth!). Almost all the friends I had there lived on the ground floor and are probably not going to be back for at least 4 months. So I’ve now literally lost all social interaction at home for 4 months. I was forced to relocate to a new apartment, but the apartment is pretty awesome, so that’s fine. Thankfully, the only thing I lost in this flood was my fridge (just covered in layers of slimy, oozing fungus) and my mom’s fishes (which I really don’t care about, I want a dog), as my house is on the third floor and completely dry. My family is fine as well; my dad’s office is now 15 minutes away instead of 1 hour and my mom is now able to go to work as well. My extended family is in India, so they’re obviously completely dry. Overall, my house is fine, I am in an awesome new apartment, and I still have my laptop and internet, so I’m great. In terms of being an online learner, I think I did fine, as by Monday morning all my due assignments will either be already mailed or handed in to my teacher.
In the short term, Thailand would have suffered a massive loss to its economy, with completely destroyed harvests, skyrocketing food prices, rapidly decreasing clean water, and 0% tourism, which is one of Thailand’s biggest industries. In the long term, Thailand’s capital is mostly safe, and there hasn’t been too much damage to the country as a whole, and almost no permanent damage.
As an individual, I really doubt I can do anything to help, and my community is pretty much non-existent right now. Obviously, I really want to help people, as I have heard and seen what some people have lost in this flood with my own eyes, but I doubt I can do much as of now (I’ve just moved in, and we’ve only brought absolute necessities from AIT). I guess the best I can do right now is help spread the word about helping victims of the flood, and hope it spreads and people are helped.
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