hey this ones an early one again!!
luck you!!!!!
so last time i left you dudes i was just about to head out to phrukadung, on our first rotary trip, so after alot of boring details of driving and ecetra....ecetra....ecetra!!!!
carol, sarah, maria, freya and i arrived in some kinda resort/ campground place, only to find we were the only ones there!!!
so after waiting for like 2 hrs or so, other exgn students started to trickle in, people were from france sweden, germany, brazil, canada, south africa, and rando parts of the us, and get this, a gil from claifornia! it was cool, joelle is from tahoe, and its funny cause we both use the same slang, its good to hear other people say dude!, sweet! and hecka!, you know.....
instead of just me.(from this point on, im just gonna say the persons name when im talking bout them,cause thats easy)
i cant begin to explain how cool it was to meet allt hose dudes, it was like wherever we where from and wahtever our differences were, we always had one thing in common, we were in freaking thailand!!!
so after we hung out and got to know eachother we went with some rotarty dudes and helped distribute blnkets and jackets to kids at the local school(its very cold were we wer)wich was really fun, after that we went back and gin cowed while listening to papart, hes the hole head of the rotary thing, tell us the rues and basically give us a preempive butt-chewing before we did any thing stupid!
so then we basically hung out that night singing karyoke, playing guitar and BSing, until past curfew, wich i kinda regret, cause that ountain almost killed me.
en cerrio.
(seriously, for all yous spanish speakers out there!)
so next mornign got up off of my board that i had been sleeping on(apparently in thailand, thai people have some wierd aversion to a soft bed, imean my bed was litterally a pice of wood with a sheet over it, its like that evrywhere!)
where was i?
sorry.
um got up, then showered (no hot water, figures...)
after drinkin some milo acive b(its like hot chocolate with vitamins in it, actually tastes prettly good) we set off to conquor phukradung!!!
we get to the base and they tell all of us its something like 5.5 k to the to, thats not bad, i think to my self SHUT UP TOKAY!!!!
sorry...5k is something like 2-3 miles ill be up in like an hr and half at most right?
wrong.
dead wrong...
so we start climbin this thing, itstarts at like a 25 degree angle and then out of nowhere the angle rockets to like 75, and here i am in my sweatshirt and beanie covered in sweat, while the porters have all of out bags suspended on bamboo poles while they carry every ting to the top on thiere shoulders!!!!
these dudes were absolute beasts!!!
i mean iter shoulders were as big and my thighs, and it wasnt just big guys, it was littlethai wemon too, wich made we feel reeeal many you can bet here i am, taking breaks evry couple mintes while some skinny guy with a tiger tatooed on his chest carrys my guitar, and4 other bags past me!!
so soon we get to our first rese stop, zach and i are one of the last to pull in, so we decide that making it up the mountain first istn that high on our prority list, and if were not comin in first, we might as well be last, wed rather fail miserably than succed marinally you know what i mean, so we just go at our own pace, we actually hiked with thiw one rotary dude, the funny thiong was a pretty big guy, and he was even more tied than us, but hed keep on puffin on those cigarettes, the entire time, after a cigarette break, he go right on wheezing up the mountain, we actually gave him a nickname, "somkey the bear" we named his kid "second hand"
so after getting passed by like for porters with the bags, zach and i decided we wanted to know what it felt like, so w ent and broke off two massive poles of bamboo, threw our jakets and caera bags over them and continued our COO-OONQUEST!
terrain evened out and returned to around 40/50 degrees, for about 2 k, by this time we know for sure we were coming in dead last!
we finnaly get to the last leg of te trip, we take like a 15 20 min break, then start up it to realize that the last km and a half is almost VERTICAL!!! im not joking at all, we could only use one hand to climb though, cause we had our bamboo poles, heck no we werent gonna wuss out and leave them behind, so finnaly after a good 5-6hrs we reach the top huffin and with smokey and second hand puffin right on our tails, thats when we wuss out, we find out its another 4 k across this pleatu to our campsite, so we look around, and find out that theres a bike rental place around the corner, so we rent ourselves a couple of bikes, still managing to cary our 15 foot poles bike to camp(i took a nasty fall, casue since i was using only my left hand to steer, when i used the brakes i wen tover the handlebars, luckly i didnt impale myself!, my knee and pride got pretty thrashed though...
and then we strut(limp) into camp like the concuors we are!
only to be greeted by questions like where the heck were you guys, weve been chillin here for like 2 hours!
whatev
that night we got settled in, ate our barbegued food(we cooked it on a little grill ourselves, i think i had a couple of pieces of what i like to call dry and sushi
after dinner, joelle and i taught every body how to play mafia!(very complicted mystery game) she knew about it to cause well shes from california!
we get to bed round 12/1 ish, only to be waken up 3 hrs later, apaently we were going to go and "greet the sun!"
so all 40 of us roll out bed and whinin and bitchin the entier way make the 4 k trek to sunrise clif!
i have to admit though once we got there and the sun started to tome up it was pretty cool, the view was absoulutly gorgeous, and we were on top of theentire mountain, looking out nothun was higher han us, and we could see the jungle srteaching out for mile tousands of feet below us!
after lunch then they wanted us to see all the clifz in phukradung, so we set off in a massive 20+ k loop around the plateu that woud bring us to sunset clif right around 6-7 o clock, i gotta evplain the landscape up there, cause it was soo wierd, in camp the place actually looked like northern california!
there were pine trees and shade everywhere, it had something to do with how only those plants grow cause of the elevation or something, but out in the trail, it looked like yosemite meets the savanah, i was evpectiong a cheetah to bolt out of the tall grass ad just take out yogi while hes stealing picanic basketsnext to the watefalls!
the only wild life we saw were leaches, and these crazy dear moose things, i mean these were huge, they couldent just be deer, they were built like amoose, and werent afraid of us, someone actually fell asleep in ahamock to wake up to one of those beasties sniffing her hat, we could even feed them aples if we wanted!
the people say that thiers elephants out there, but we didnt see any, and if there were, how ded they get up the mountain???? all that we saw were big piles of poop, so we figured the porters brought ti up to scare the farangs.
after a day of breathtaking sights we ll returned literally breathless and exhasted to camp to eat our self cooked shishkabobs again stayed up way too late and fell asleep freezing.
the next day we goke up at the godly hour of 11:30, to three german girls bangin on our door telling us we had to get up to play soccer after w chewed em out explaining how AMERICANS DONT PLAY SOCCER!
i settled with reffereeing(my god how do you spell that)only problem is i didnt know the rules, so i just kinda made em up as i went along it was fun that was our free day so all we reallydid was hangout and play guitar. i played with this girl named megan, shes been playing for like five years and is just one of those musical freeks, but still it was cool to learn songs and even teach her some like lola and tears in hevan, late that night we were playing outsde of the food store when one of the shopkeepers, busted out his harmonica t play with us it was very cool, thts realy all that happenend that night, i got to brush up on my spanish with oswaldo(brazil) and jullian(hes from oregon, but lives every other year in mexico or something like that)
if only my thai sills and mastery of the spanish language were flipped, id be a freakin rock star you know?
the next morn we packed ate some mama and started down, zach daniel and i all had this amazing plan to rent bikes again and be the first to get to the path, so we got the bikes, but cause we were so tierd from the days before and the bikes were so bad we acually got there last, and had to cath up with everyone already goin down, going down was way easier, but on the way i was making a particular jump, and at that exact point in tiome my very stury looking walking stick decides to snap crlean in two!
i eat it big time.
i fall flat on my back and slide a couple feet, and some how my sandals go flying like 15 yards down the trail(oh did i mention during the entire trip i was rockin my rainbow sandals), in the end i imaple my thigh on a broken bamboo shaft and tear up the back of my forearm pretty good,
then we decide to take our time, stopping at every rest stop to eat watermellon, and chill, eventually we make it down to the base all of us sore in placesw we didnt even know we had!
after lunch we all said our tearful goodbys(were hanging out for like ten days on the 17th so we dont really have to wait long)
i really dont reember much of the ride home or getting home for that matter, it was all ablur, really thers not mush interesting left to say, only that todays an early blog day cause im taking off for bangkok tommoro at 5am and coming bak on thurs, aparently the girls host moms want them to bike bangkok with them but need a studly man to keep them safe, now where the heck are they gonna get one of those?????
goodinght im tierd
see you in a week!
ryan
Friday, November 30, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
badmition fight culb, fish murder and thanksgiving!(in that order)
welll ok heres my early blog, since im heading out tommoro for pukadung(rotary trip, all 38 of us are gonna go hiking nd camping at on of the highest peaks in thailand!)
hmm so befoer we get into the main things that happenexd this week ill just say that these are the most exciting things that appened, all the rest was usuall id ide my bike to school(180km on that bike now, the plastic parts of the pedal keep snappin off, im on my 3rd set now i think i just pedal to hard or something, i didnt go to school on monday i was feeling a little sick, cough cough...)
so anyways schools the same, on friday, we didnt have class, monks came to school to recive money frm all of the students for the temple,the cool thing was when we give the money we make this christmas type thing where the money hangs off of the branches then we give the tree to monks while they chant and pray over it it was pretty cool!
so on teusday, my host dadasks me f i like wan to go and play some badminton with him and some friends, sure sounds like fun, badminton is fun to play every now and then, and im not bad at it, zso why not?
my host dad goes upstairs to get redy, while i stay downstairs, he comes back five min later weraring TINY(these shorts are absoulutly idiculous!) baby blue storts and a green polo that was abot two sized to small, i started to burst out laghing, but quickly turned it into a massive coughing fit!
so after my coughing subsided, my host bro and i hop into the dads truck at around 8 or so so its really dark when when were driving, we drive for quite a while, and when we finnaly stop im lookng up at one of the scariest looking wharehouses ive ever seen, i mean this place is out in the middle of nowhere, its pitch black in side and this place looks like its been condemed!!!
so i was a little bit on edge as you can imagine, but m host dad gets out of the truck, ad tells us to follow him inside the creepy wharehouse, so we slide open the doors, and y host dad goes over to one of those circut breaker things, flips a toggle and flood lights start to flicker on revealing two badminton nets in the middle of this huge room that has trash and random odds and ends littered throughout, as if on cue the doors screeched open again, and 5 more thai old guys start to come throug the doors, decked out in the same bad 80s workout atire!
the first thing that pops into my head is
"dear god, ive wnderd into a badminton fght club" iwas just waiting for brad pit to step out of the shadows and start telling me how we dont talk about badmiton club, i mean these dudes were serious!
so i play for a while with my host bro while the other guys go through streaches to make sure they dont pull anything i guess, once they finished up, they took the court, and well these dudes were,,,
INCREADIBLE!!!!
these were the best badimnton players ive ever seen, i mean every hit was a spike! they were darting around the court like crazy!!
so while i ws watchin them, since i didnt know any of thier names i started to manke up names for the teams.
first off we have
the nudists- these guys both wore shorts that were actually shorter than thier shirts, making them look like they werent wearin any pants!
next was croughin tiger/hidden dragon, my host dad was crouchin tiger, hed be in front of his partner in a croughed position dodging the other teams spikes while hidden dragon would jump out of nowhere and make increadible returns!
and lastly we had the nam phong globe trotters, these dudes were all about the trick shots, behing the back, between the legs, you name it, and these dudes could do it!
so that was my night, sitting on top of an old table with my host br while these guys put on a awsome display of thier mastery of the game after it was over, my host dad shut off the breaker locked up the whare house and went on home like 6 grown men playing a kids game in an abandoned wharehouse in the midle of the night was perfectly normal!
sowendesday and thursday passed normally, but then on friday night after the thing with the monks, my host dad comes to me and tell me that were having a barbecue(oh whenever i tell you guys about interactions between me and people who only speak thai, im giving you the abridged version, my translation, you know?)
so i ask him what were eaitng, he takes me to the backyard to a buket, and inside IS THE BIGGEST FISH IVE EVER SEEN!!!
and its not a normal fish either, this is one of those fish tht doesent have gills, and is able to crawl around on land!
my host dad tell me that i have to kill it
uhhh no thanks
no you have to
no id actully rather not!
ryan you have to kill it
so i guess i was about to commit fish murder
my host dad goes to the house and brings me back a hammer, he tell be just to pick it up and whack it on the head!
one problem.... how?
imean the fish HAS NO GILLS!!!
how the heck to do i pick this thing up????!!!
he says just grab it by the tail, so well i rech for this beastie and some how it senses me coming and manages to JUMP out ot the foot tall bucket and, actally starts to CRAWL away from me, like a person!!!
at this point i feel terrible about killing man-fish, so my host had grabs it off of the ground an holds it out for me to smak on the head
i tell itim sorry, nd then i hit it, which sends man-fish into convulsions, whic means i have to whack it again!
i felt terrible.
i dont know why i felt bad either, i mean i go fishing all the time no problem, maybe it was just that i didnt catch the fish, so it wasnt my right to kill it, or tht the thing was actully able to crawl on dry land that fraked me out....
so i bet your all wondering "how did man-fish taste?"
well so my hd was grilling it, but then i guess he realized he was hungry NOW!
at this point im in the other room with my host bro, when i realize i cant hear the fish being cooked any more, so i go to chek it out, and i see my host dad bent over infront of the microwave smiling hungrily. and i realized that theres no fish on the grill anymore, i go to se what hes looking at and in the microwave if a halfcooked fish thats been choped in half(too big to fit you know) slowly spinning int he orange light.
awww no.
my host dad looks up at me and asks if it smells good, i kinda shake and nod my head at the same time, and he asks whats wrong, i point at the spinning fish halfs and try to xplain how a microwave isnt how you cook a fish, he tought i was just being funny, so when we sit gown to eat he keeps on urging me to try the fish(i was perfectly happy with my plate of white rice) but i had to try some, so wouldent insult him, so i take a bite, nd well...
it was basiclly warm sushi, you know how fish is supposed to flake apart in your mouth, this was slimy and i had to chew on it, i said it was delicious, but sadly i ate a big lunch at school sooooo, im gonna have to passs on this meal
my hd looked a little ssad, but i sure as heck wasnt eating ny more, so i politleyexcused my self from the table(later that night i sunck down for some dry ramen noodles, its called "mama" here)
ad that brings me to thanksgiving,
so i was pretty bummed about missing thnks giving, so today i prsuaded the girls to skip fruit carving class with me, then wed go to lotus(its kinda like a thai costco)and buy a bunch of food and just hangout at marias house, fter a bit of pleading they all agreed, and we set off to raid lotus
one hr later maria and i are staning in akitchen sauteeing onions mashing potatoes peeling carrots and carving pecooked chickens(no turkeys in thailand) having a blast, it was awesome, we made the food(it actually tasted alright, maria works in a kitchen in a hotel back home, so you know she helped me out a little bit while i did my rachel ray thing.
anyways food was good company was great,all in all, we had a really fun thanksgiving!
man its late!
uhhhhh ok ive got time for a thai lesson
ok
so this isnt really thai you can say, but thats kinda nitpicky
555
thats it.
555
ok so its actually thai internet slang
555
ok in thai the word for the #5 is "ha"
sooooo....
555=hahaha
get it?
its now my favorite thing to use in emails, well its oficially almost one in the morning on november the 25th, i gotta go, ive got a mountain to climb tommoro!
until next issue
ryan
555
hmm so befoer we get into the main things that happenexd this week ill just say that these are the most exciting things that appened, all the rest was usuall id ide my bike to school(180km on that bike now, the plastic parts of the pedal keep snappin off, im on my 3rd set now i think i just pedal to hard or something, i didnt go to school on monday i was feeling a little sick, cough cough...)
so anyways schools the same, on friday, we didnt have class, monks came to school to recive money frm all of the students for the temple,the cool thing was when we give the money we make this christmas type thing where the money hangs off of the branches then we give the tree to monks while they chant and pray over it it was pretty cool!
so on teusday, my host dadasks me f i like wan to go and play some badminton with him and some friends, sure sounds like fun, badminton is fun to play every now and then, and im not bad at it, zso why not?
my host dad goes upstairs to get redy, while i stay downstairs, he comes back five min later weraring TINY(these shorts are absoulutly idiculous!) baby blue storts and a green polo that was abot two sized to small, i started to burst out laghing, but quickly turned it into a massive coughing fit!
so after my coughing subsided, my host bro and i hop into the dads truck at around 8 or so so its really dark when when were driving, we drive for quite a while, and when we finnaly stop im lookng up at one of the scariest looking wharehouses ive ever seen, i mean this place is out in the middle of nowhere, its pitch black in side and this place looks like its been condemed!!!
so i was a little bit on edge as you can imagine, but m host dad gets out of the truck, ad tells us to follow him inside the creepy wharehouse, so we slide open the doors, and y host dad goes over to one of those circut breaker things, flips a toggle and flood lights start to flicker on revealing two badminton nets in the middle of this huge room that has trash and random odds and ends littered throughout, as if on cue the doors screeched open again, and 5 more thai old guys start to come throug the doors, decked out in the same bad 80s workout atire!
the first thing that pops into my head is
"dear god, ive wnderd into a badminton fght club" iwas just waiting for brad pit to step out of the shadows and start telling me how we dont talk about badmiton club, i mean these dudes were serious!
so i play for a while with my host bro while the other guys go through streaches to make sure they dont pull anything i guess, once they finished up, they took the court, and well these dudes were,,,
INCREADIBLE!!!!
these were the best badimnton players ive ever seen, i mean every hit was a spike! they were darting around the court like crazy!!
so while i ws watchin them, since i didnt know any of thier names i started to manke up names for the teams.
first off we have
the nudists- these guys both wore shorts that were actually shorter than thier shirts, making them look like they werent wearin any pants!
next was croughin tiger/hidden dragon, my host dad was crouchin tiger, hed be in front of his partner in a croughed position dodging the other teams spikes while hidden dragon would jump out of nowhere and make increadible returns!
and lastly we had the nam phong globe trotters, these dudes were all about the trick shots, behing the back, between the legs, you name it, and these dudes could do it!
so that was my night, sitting on top of an old table with my host br while these guys put on a awsome display of thier mastery of the game after it was over, my host dad shut off the breaker locked up the whare house and went on home like 6 grown men playing a kids game in an abandoned wharehouse in the midle of the night was perfectly normal!
sowendesday and thursday passed normally, but then on friday night after the thing with the monks, my host dad comes to me and tell me that were having a barbecue(oh whenever i tell you guys about interactions between me and people who only speak thai, im giving you the abridged version, my translation, you know?)
so i ask him what were eaitng, he takes me to the backyard to a buket, and inside IS THE BIGGEST FISH IVE EVER SEEN!!!
and its not a normal fish either, this is one of those fish tht doesent have gills, and is able to crawl around on land!
my host dad tell me that i have to kill it
uhhh no thanks
no you have to
no id actully rather not!
ryan you have to kill it
so i guess i was about to commit fish murder
my host dad goes to the house and brings me back a hammer, he tell be just to pick it up and whack it on the head!
one problem.... how?
imean the fish HAS NO GILLS!!!
how the heck to do i pick this thing up????!!!
he says just grab it by the tail, so well i rech for this beastie and some how it senses me coming and manages to JUMP out ot the foot tall bucket and, actally starts to CRAWL away from me, like a person!!!
at this point i feel terrible about killing man-fish, so my host had grabs it off of the ground an holds it out for me to smak on the head
i tell itim sorry, nd then i hit it, which sends man-fish into convulsions, whic means i have to whack it again!
i felt terrible.
i dont know why i felt bad either, i mean i go fishing all the time no problem, maybe it was just that i didnt catch the fish, so it wasnt my right to kill it, or tht the thing was actully able to crawl on dry land that fraked me out....
so i bet your all wondering "how did man-fish taste?"
well so my hd was grilling it, but then i guess he realized he was hungry NOW!
at this point im in the other room with my host bro, when i realize i cant hear the fish being cooked any more, so i go to chek it out, and i see my host dad bent over infront of the microwave smiling hungrily. and i realized that theres no fish on the grill anymore, i go to se what hes looking at and in the microwave if a halfcooked fish thats been choped in half(too big to fit you know) slowly spinning int he orange light.
awww no.
my host dad looks up at me and asks if it smells good, i kinda shake and nod my head at the same time, and he asks whats wrong, i point at the spinning fish halfs and try to xplain how a microwave isnt how you cook a fish, he tought i was just being funny, so when we sit gown to eat he keeps on urging me to try the fish(i was perfectly happy with my plate of white rice) but i had to try some, so wouldent insult him, so i take a bite, nd well...
it was basiclly warm sushi, you know how fish is supposed to flake apart in your mouth, this was slimy and i had to chew on it, i said it was delicious, but sadly i ate a big lunch at school sooooo, im gonna have to passs on this meal
my hd looked a little ssad, but i sure as heck wasnt eating ny more, so i politleyexcused my self from the table(later that night i sunck down for some dry ramen noodles, its called "mama" here)
ad that brings me to thanksgiving,
so i was pretty bummed about missing thnks giving, so today i prsuaded the girls to skip fruit carving class with me, then wed go to lotus(its kinda like a thai costco)and buy a bunch of food and just hangout at marias house, fter a bit of pleading they all agreed, and we set off to raid lotus
one hr later maria and i are staning in akitchen sauteeing onions mashing potatoes peeling carrots and carving pecooked chickens(no turkeys in thailand) having a blast, it was awesome, we made the food(it actually tasted alright, maria works in a kitchen in a hotel back home, so you know she helped me out a little bit while i did my rachel ray thing.
anyways food was good company was great,all in all, we had a really fun thanksgiving!
man its late!
uhhhhh ok ive got time for a thai lesson
ok
so this isnt really thai you can say, but thats kinda nitpicky
555
thats it.
555
ok so its actually thai internet slang
555
ok in thai the word for the #5 is "ha"
sooooo....
555=hahaha
get it?
its now my favorite thing to use in emails, well its oficially almost one in the morning on november the 25th, i gotta go, ive got a mountain to climb tommoro!
until next issue
ryan
555
Sunday, November 18, 2007
i live with dr doolittle
ok.
its wierd, i can never really think of what to ay right off the bat, i have to make nonsensical banter for a bit before i can jump into a topic, so dont mind me.....
hmmm
well i finnaly started school again this week, so i might as well start there, so as you might of read earlier, my school is 10km away from my new house, so iet up early in the orning to ride my bike(they offred to let me use the bus, but i wanted to see if i could o it you know?)
any ways, t this point i have officially rode 100km on that bike!
i could tell you what that is in miles, but lets face it km sounds way more impressive!
so school btw is still as boring as usual, i really do try, and i know its not the teachers faulst, but well my thai isnt exacktly to the point where i can understand whats goin on in our calculus(i only got to algebra 2, and i scraped by) or history lessons
but school isnt without its high points, one of my friends brings his guitar all the time, he also brings a uge book of thi songs, so during lunch and off periods hell teach me thai songs, its wierd, thai people LOVE to sing, and if they hear a song that they know, theyll just randomy brst out into song, so my friend will show me the strum pattern, and point at the chords then im supposed to chnge while the class sings along, its pretty fun actually, i just wish i knew what they were sayin!
another fun thing to do is play football, my mom and dad sent me an american football, so i could teach my friends
its funny, cause most thai people have only seen footballs on tv, so they have no clue how to throw one,
in thailand im a football god.
so while i teach them football, they teach me soccer(im errible) they have this game where one person stands in the middle and treis to steal the ball while everyone else stand in a circle passes th ball around, and laughs a the sorry dude in the center
im that sorry dude.
oh at school there are 2 other farang, its a husband and wifein thier 20s and thier from chile, ther names are cloudio and laurena, they live on campus like to watch movies and play guitar hero, you might have guessed but we have at least 2 things in common, so friday they invited me to coe over and play gh3(oh yeah guitar hero 3! im such a nerd) any ways they kicked my butt pretty well, and we were just hangin out in the "living room"(thier house is more or less a 2 story shack, which means a cornicopia of bugs and animals have free rieghn to come and go as they please)when laurena reaks out and points to the rafters, sitting right ove us is litterally the BIGEST spider i have ever seen! like i said she freaks and demands we kil it!
cloudio turs to me and goes, hey ryan i bet you cant kill that spider,
oh your on!
so i grab a shoe and take a swing at the celing and connect pretty solidly, i pull away the shoe and the spider isnt even phased! it goes to the other side of the rafter(imagine the hand from the adams family movie, hats how this thing moved!)
then jumps down onto the couch and somehow wedges itself into the cussions!
right now im scared out of my mind, that spider just took a hit from a very big shoe and shrugged it off like some greek mythical beast!
but i still hadto kill it, i could see itslegs(they are the lengthof my fingers) peekingthrought the cushions, so i thought quickly and grabbed a pai of kitchen sicors(i have no idea how to spell that word!) and shoved em in the space and chopped that beastie right in half!
i felt so hard core!
those scisors deserve to be mounted on a wall or something like that!
any ways then we went back to me losing in guitar hero.
hmm oh ill tell you more about my new house!
basically i live with dr doolittle, there are animals EVERYWHERE!
there are these tow little raty dogs, they honestly discust me, theres this beautiful golden retriver(which is wierd, cause in thailand 90% of dogs are thes nastly resident evil zombie dogs, their worse than mexican dogs) her name is coa neo, (which in thai means sticky rice)
then there are these 2 rotwiller gaurd dogs, that re locked up in cagesuntil night time, when they prowl the outside and gaurd the wharhouse(thes ones scare the hell out of me! they go nuts whenever i walk near the cages, one time i was playingcatch with my host bro, when i missed the ball andit rolled right next to the cage, the biggest dog reached out its arm and slammed it down on my football, you know just like in the sandlot!
i dont play catch in the backyard now.
then, since the downstairs is a machine parts store and its roll up doors are open all day animals find t hier way in all the time, we have an INFESTATION of tukays(ive told you about them before, but there thes huge lizards, just this short of being an iguana! they bite and make this sound that goes toooh-kaaay, in the middle of the night its kinda scary!) along with gekos and every insect imaginable!
the other night i was checking my email late at night,i was just about to go to bed when a CAT jumped off a shelf and landed on my desk!
the only problem is WE DONT HAVE A CAT!
apparently it got locked in when my host dad shut the doors.
i dont go into the itchen past 11o clock, cause THINGS live in there and im a pansy.
my week has been prety uneventful sorry bout that
it happens sometimes ya know oh hey i just remembered i got my hair cut, by another exchange student, i relly didnt want to pay 100 baht, so megan did it, not to bad considering we were both distracted by watchin greys anatomy.
oh hey i just finishe d downlowding some new videoson youtube check em out, this is the address
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rynalias
hope ya like them.
so oh ive gotta teach you a thai phrase right? let me think
hey i cant belive i havent taught you guys this....
chai, and mai
chai=yes
mai-no easy enough, just remember mai means mai
ok im spent sorry bout the lame blog
until next week
mcstudly aka ryan
(lenters, that ones for you)
its wierd, i can never really think of what to ay right off the bat, i have to make nonsensical banter for a bit before i can jump into a topic, so dont mind me.....
hmmm
well i finnaly started school again this week, so i might as well start there, so as you might of read earlier, my school is 10km away from my new house, so iet up early in the orning to ride my bike(they offred to let me use the bus, but i wanted to see if i could o it you know?)
any ways, t this point i have officially rode 100km on that bike!
i could tell you what that is in miles, but lets face it km sounds way more impressive!
so school btw is still as boring as usual, i really do try, and i know its not the teachers faulst, but well my thai isnt exacktly to the point where i can understand whats goin on in our calculus(i only got to algebra 2, and i scraped by) or history lessons
but school isnt without its high points, one of my friends brings his guitar all the time, he also brings a uge book of thi songs, so during lunch and off periods hell teach me thai songs, its wierd, thai people LOVE to sing, and if they hear a song that they know, theyll just randomy brst out into song, so my friend will show me the strum pattern, and point at the chords then im supposed to chnge while the class sings along, its pretty fun actually, i just wish i knew what they were sayin!
another fun thing to do is play football, my mom and dad sent me an american football, so i could teach my friends
its funny, cause most thai people have only seen footballs on tv, so they have no clue how to throw one,
in thailand im a football god.
so while i teach them football, they teach me soccer(im errible) they have this game where one person stands in the middle and treis to steal the ball while everyone else stand in a circle passes th ball around, and laughs a the sorry dude in the center
im that sorry dude.
oh at school there are 2 other farang, its a husband and wifein thier 20s and thier from chile, ther names are cloudio and laurena, they live on campus like to watch movies and play guitar hero, you might have guessed but we have at least 2 things in common, so friday they invited me to coe over and play gh3(oh yeah guitar hero 3! im such a nerd) any ways they kicked my butt pretty well, and we were just hangin out in the "living room"(thier house is more or less a 2 story shack, which means a cornicopia of bugs and animals have free rieghn to come and go as they please)when laurena reaks out and points to the rafters, sitting right ove us is litterally the BIGEST spider i have ever seen! like i said she freaks and demands we kil it!
cloudio turs to me and goes, hey ryan i bet you cant kill that spider,
oh your on!
so i grab a shoe and take a swing at the celing and connect pretty solidly, i pull away the shoe and the spider isnt even phased! it goes to the other side of the rafter(imagine the hand from the adams family movie, hats how this thing moved!)
then jumps down onto the couch and somehow wedges itself into the cussions!
right now im scared out of my mind, that spider just took a hit from a very big shoe and shrugged it off like some greek mythical beast!
but i still hadto kill it, i could see itslegs(they are the lengthof my fingers) peekingthrought the cushions, so i thought quickly and grabbed a pai of kitchen sicors(i have no idea how to spell that word!) and shoved em in the space and chopped that beastie right in half!
i felt so hard core!
those scisors deserve to be mounted on a wall or something like that!
any ways then we went back to me losing in guitar hero.
hmm oh ill tell you more about my new house!
basically i live with dr doolittle, there are animals EVERYWHERE!
there are these tow little raty dogs, they honestly discust me, theres this beautiful golden retriver(which is wierd, cause in thailand 90% of dogs are thes nastly resident evil zombie dogs, their worse than mexican dogs) her name is coa neo, (which in thai means sticky rice)
then there are these 2 rotwiller gaurd dogs, that re locked up in cagesuntil night time, when they prowl the outside and gaurd the wharhouse(thes ones scare the hell out of me! they go nuts whenever i walk near the cages, one time i was playingcatch with my host bro, when i missed the ball andit rolled right next to the cage, the biggest dog reached out its arm and slammed it down on my football, you know just like in the sandlot!
i dont play catch in the backyard now.
then, since the downstairs is a machine parts store and its roll up doors are open all day animals find t hier way in all the time, we have an INFESTATION of tukays(ive told you about them before, but there thes huge lizards, just this short of being an iguana! they bite and make this sound that goes toooh-kaaay, in the middle of the night its kinda scary!) along with gekos and every insect imaginable!
the other night i was checking my email late at night,i was just about to go to bed when a CAT jumped off a shelf and landed on my desk!
the only problem is WE DONT HAVE A CAT!
apparently it got locked in when my host dad shut the doors.
i dont go into the itchen past 11o clock, cause THINGS live in there and im a pansy.
my week has been prety uneventful sorry bout that
it happens sometimes ya know oh hey i just remembered i got my hair cut, by another exchange student, i relly didnt want to pay 100 baht, so megan did it, not to bad considering we were both distracted by watchin greys anatomy.
oh hey i just finishe d downlowding some new videoson youtube check em out, this is the address
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rynalias
hope ya like them.
so oh ive gotta teach you a thai phrase right? let me think
hey i cant belive i havent taught you guys this....
chai, and mai
chai=yes
mai-no easy enough, just remember mai means mai
ok im spent sorry bout the lame blog
until next week
mcstudly aka ryan
(lenters, that ones for you)
Sunday, November 11, 2007
a sexy 21 (thankyou health academy!)
ATTENTION THIS IS A RECAP
hey dudes its me again, so let me recap, lasime i rote i had just got to move in with my new host family and the next day i would work in the namphong hospitals ER
END OF RECAP
so my fist night right after i finished rithin my blog, i was chillin dowstairs just hangin out with my little host bro, watchin tv and whatever, for a couple of hours, the whole while my host dad is knockin back thai beer like a champ, hey whatever he does what he wants right?
so it gets around 11ish, my host bro has gone to bed, and i have to be up early for the hospital, so i go to put my guitar away, when my hd(host dad) , atthis point liberally inebreated stops me and sits me down, then he starts trying to speak english, try ing to tell me to sit there and not move after he was certain i wasntgonna excape he meandered over to his stereo and put on some thai music(its usually very poppy and upbeat) and comes back to me points at my guitar, and says you play.
now.
hmmm ok might as well i mean hes drunk so whatever i play wot sound too bad i guess, so i strted paying this blues kinda progression thingie i learned last week in the same key, and loe and behold it didnt sound half bad!
so here i am sitting in the kichen, beer bottles everywhere with my hd basting bad thai music, playing my guitar at arount 11:30 at night!
my hd was having a blast!
he was like clapping laughun and wavin his arms everywhere!
whenever id try to go upstairs hed be like mai mai! one more!
so i ended up playing for like 40 min with this guy in his kitchen before i finnaly got him to let me go upstairs and go to bed!
that was my first night with my hd.
the next day i strted work at the hospital and i met the doc id be folowing around, and this dude was hillarious, first off hes a ladyboy, and secondly he was psyhched to have a farang hngin out with him all day,!
he speaks increadible english, so we were able to talk about all of the cases that came in and out, nothing amazing happened that day, so im not gonna punish my fingers with the details, but the main thing was he promised to teach me to do some sutures when a case would come in!
hmm you know what in not gonn a go day by day anymore, cause welll im gonna write on the fly! be more freein my bogs! size the day! pee into the wind from now on!
(a little melodramatic?)
so befoer my hospital stories, i have to tell you gys about these things in america called "regulations" and "malpractice lawsuits" pretty much in ameica an eighteen year old whose worked in an er and or before might know some thingsdue to trainig an what not, but for the most part is there to observe, not to do the things that im about to tell you, man i love thailand!
and if you didnt know ive worked as an intern in the er in mercy san juan, and in the or at kaiser roseville, ive been trained in basic procedures and graduated the health academy at oakmont, so i know a bit about whats goin on in a hospital, and im not flying blind in there.
any ways i come into the ER on wednesday night(i went into kk earlier that day)
i drop off my bag change into some shoes, and walk in the door only to find the luckiest accident in the wrld(for me, not fo the drunk thai dude) here layin on a table in front of me is an already sedated motorcycle crash victim, well HE was drunk, would you still call him a victim?
idk
anyways this guy had 5 perfect looking lacerations all about 4-5inches long all over the middle of his left leg!
the doctor comes over says im right on time and pull me over to this gy, he does two stiches, looks at me asks "do you remember how i did that?"
i say yeah, he tell me to put some gloves on ans hands me the needle and tweezers!
ahhh!!!!!
i was so pumped i did a few, a little shakey, but after about four or so i started doin them no problem, the doctor just went back to reading the paper and let me finish up!
21.
21 stiches
he had 23 done, but the doctor did the first two.
i did 21 freakin stiches on this guys leg! and they looked very nice!
i mean it was almost sexy how cool it was!
right after that he asked if i wanted to scrubin on an apendectomy(take out the apendix) i said sure, so i scrubbed got dressed in the sterile gowns and everything, and stood right next to him as he pulled this ladys apendix out!
he said the next day he had a c-section to do and asked if i wantdto be the one to recive the baby from him, duh! oh yeah i said!
but it turns out she went into labor at like 1 am so so he let me scrub in on a srgery the next day where he tied this ladys tubes(ironic huh?)
just as he was finished befoer he closed the skin up he turned to me ag said hey i feel bad about you not being able to see the c section, so do you want to learn how to stich her up?
like i said before
so cool it was almost sexy...
so right there he taught me how o do surgical sutures, which are alot harder, but i mnaged to figure it out,
hmm
while im on the topic i might as well tell you about my other hospital experiance, he asked for my phone # so he could cll me if there were any surgerys that id want to see, so late sat night he calls telling me that theres a guy whos apendix has probably ruptured and he has to take it out, he wants me to come in, i say sure, i get there, scrub in, he starts operating, turns to e and askes me to hold the retractors(they keep the incision open while he does his thing) for him while he operates!
ok that was downright sexy, hot even!
ok enogh hospit al talk
ket me intro duce you to my new host family
Ma, is a very quiet thai woman shes nice to me
pa, likes the sauce, its great when hes drunk i mess with him and teach him english some how the words "refrigrator", and "vegetable" just get him every time! but you know atleast hes consistent....moving on
Maid: yeah how awkward is that! we have a maid! i go downstair to eat b-fast,fully intending to clean my room after i get a bite to eat, i come back and things are folded! i hate it, i can never find my clothes,and she puts them on hangers its frustrating, but she is a very nice lady all things aside
Ja: ive taken the libertly of givin this 13 year old an english name, i call him jack, it just rolls of th tongu easier you knoe?
ja sounds so abrupt and unfinished, like a hiccup, but jack is more pourpusefull i think. any ways hes a cool kid speaks good english, i sahre a room with him, he snore suprisingly loud for a kid that small
Non: honestly idk much about this dude, other than hes 18 like me, he just does. not. talk. to me at least, but im serous! this kid has not spoken five words the entire week ie been here, last night i tryed tosatrt a conversation, about vidoe games of all things!
and he just looked at me, put his headphones back on and went back to the computor!
whatever. jack and i are tight
hmm oh so today, we were supposed to have dance lessons again, buttye got cancelled, so i took that oprotunity to hook all the other exchange students on greys anatomy, i bought it on dvd, we must have watched atleast 7 episodes today!, we just hund out at marias house bought ice cream and veged from like 1030 till 530!
good day in my book!
hmm what else
i watched 3:10 to yuma last night, it was glorious
oh so a thai lesson i for got last week too
well here we go im only gonna give one phrase this time, cause i use it a great deal, and is almost as cool as mai pen rai(see 2 weeks ago)
alright redy?
ไม่รู้
ok its pronounced may-rhoo catchy huh?
and it means
"i dont know."
see a key phrase for any exchange student!
ok well ive gotta get up early tomoro, cause ive gotta go back to school, and my new house is 10k away and guess what im ridin my bike!it seemed like a good idea at the time
well
untill next week
ryan
AKA
lance armstrong!
hey dudes its me again, so let me recap, lasime i rote i had just got to move in with my new host family and the next day i would work in the namphong hospitals ER
END OF RECAP
so my fist night right after i finished rithin my blog, i was chillin dowstairs just hangin out with my little host bro, watchin tv and whatever, for a couple of hours, the whole while my host dad is knockin back thai beer like a champ, hey whatever he does what he wants right?
so it gets around 11ish, my host bro has gone to bed, and i have to be up early for the hospital, so i go to put my guitar away, when my hd(host dad) , atthis point liberally inebreated stops me and sits me down, then he starts trying to speak english, try ing to tell me to sit there and not move after he was certain i wasntgonna excape he meandered over to his stereo and put on some thai music(its usually very poppy and upbeat) and comes back to me points at my guitar, and says you play.
now.
hmmm ok might as well i mean hes drunk so whatever i play wot sound too bad i guess, so i strted paying this blues kinda progression thingie i learned last week in the same key, and loe and behold it didnt sound half bad!
so here i am sitting in the kichen, beer bottles everywhere with my hd basting bad thai music, playing my guitar at arount 11:30 at night!
my hd was having a blast!
he was like clapping laughun and wavin his arms everywhere!
whenever id try to go upstairs hed be like mai mai! one more!
so i ended up playing for like 40 min with this guy in his kitchen before i finnaly got him to let me go upstairs and go to bed!
that was my first night with my hd.
the next day i strted work at the hospital and i met the doc id be folowing around, and this dude was hillarious, first off hes a ladyboy, and secondly he was psyhched to have a farang hngin out with him all day,!
he speaks increadible english, so we were able to talk about all of the cases that came in and out, nothing amazing happened that day, so im not gonna punish my fingers with the details, but the main thing was he promised to teach me to do some sutures when a case would come in!
hmm you know what in not gonn a go day by day anymore, cause welll im gonna write on the fly! be more freein my bogs! size the day! pee into the wind from now on!
(a little melodramatic?)
so befoer my hospital stories, i have to tell you gys about these things in america called "regulations" and "malpractice lawsuits" pretty much in ameica an eighteen year old whose worked in an er and or before might know some thingsdue to trainig an what not, but for the most part is there to observe, not to do the things that im about to tell you, man i love thailand!
and if you didnt know ive worked as an intern in the er in mercy san juan, and in the or at kaiser roseville, ive been trained in basic procedures and graduated the health academy at oakmont, so i know a bit about whats goin on in a hospital, and im not flying blind in there.
any ways i come into the ER on wednesday night(i went into kk earlier that day)
i drop off my bag change into some shoes, and walk in the door only to find the luckiest accident in the wrld(for me, not fo the drunk thai dude) here layin on a table in front of me is an already sedated motorcycle crash victim, well HE was drunk, would you still call him a victim?
idk
anyways this guy had 5 perfect looking lacerations all about 4-5inches long all over the middle of his left leg!
the doctor comes over says im right on time and pull me over to this gy, he does two stiches, looks at me asks "do you remember how i did that?"
i say yeah, he tell me to put some gloves on ans hands me the needle and tweezers!
ahhh!!!!!
i was so pumped i did a few, a little shakey, but after about four or so i started doin them no problem, the doctor just went back to reading the paper and let me finish up!
21.
21 stiches
he had 23 done, but the doctor did the first two.
i did 21 freakin stiches on this guys leg! and they looked very nice!
i mean it was almost sexy how cool it was!
right after that he asked if i wanted to scrubin on an apendectomy(take out the apendix) i said sure, so i scrubbed got dressed in the sterile gowns and everything, and stood right next to him as he pulled this ladys apendix out!
he said the next day he had a c-section to do and asked if i wantdto be the one to recive the baby from him, duh! oh yeah i said!
but it turns out she went into labor at like 1 am so so he let me scrub in on a srgery the next day where he tied this ladys tubes(ironic huh?)
just as he was finished befoer he closed the skin up he turned to me ag said hey i feel bad about you not being able to see the c section, so do you want to learn how to stich her up?
like i said before
so cool it was almost sexy...
so right there he taught me how o do surgical sutures, which are alot harder, but i mnaged to figure it out,
hmm
while im on the topic i might as well tell you about my other hospital experiance, he asked for my phone # so he could cll me if there were any surgerys that id want to see, so late sat night he calls telling me that theres a guy whos apendix has probably ruptured and he has to take it out, he wants me to come in, i say sure, i get there, scrub in, he starts operating, turns to e and askes me to hold the retractors(they keep the incision open while he does his thing) for him while he operates!
ok that was downright sexy, hot even!
ok enogh hospit al talk
ket me intro duce you to my new host family
Ma, is a very quiet thai woman shes nice to me
pa, likes the sauce, its great when hes drunk i mess with him and teach him english some how the words "refrigrator", and "vegetable" just get him every time! but you know atleast hes consistent....moving on
Maid: yeah how awkward is that! we have a maid! i go downstair to eat b-fast,fully intending to clean my room after i get a bite to eat, i come back and things are folded! i hate it, i can never find my clothes,and she puts them on hangers its frustrating, but she is a very nice lady all things aside
Ja: ive taken the libertly of givin this 13 year old an english name, i call him jack, it just rolls of th tongu easier you knoe?
ja sounds so abrupt and unfinished, like a hiccup, but jack is more pourpusefull i think. any ways hes a cool kid speaks good english, i sahre a room with him, he snore suprisingly loud for a kid that small
Non: honestly idk much about this dude, other than hes 18 like me, he just does. not. talk. to me at least, but im serous! this kid has not spoken five words the entire week ie been here, last night i tryed tosatrt a conversation, about vidoe games of all things!
and he just looked at me, put his headphones back on and went back to the computor!
whatever. jack and i are tight
hmm oh so today, we were supposed to have dance lessons again, buttye got cancelled, so i took that oprotunity to hook all the other exchange students on greys anatomy, i bought it on dvd, we must have watched atleast 7 episodes today!, we just hund out at marias house bought ice cream and veged from like 1030 till 530!
good day in my book!
hmm what else
i watched 3:10 to yuma last night, it was glorious
oh so a thai lesson i for got last week too
well here we go im only gonna give one phrase this time, cause i use it a great deal, and is almost as cool as mai pen rai(see 2 weeks ago)
alright redy?
ไม่รู้
ok its pronounced may-rhoo catchy huh?
and it means
"i dont know."
see a key phrase for any exchange student!
ok well ive gotta get up early tomoro, cause ive gotta go back to school, and my new house is 10k away and guess what im ridin my bike!it seemed like a good idea at the time
well
untill next week
ryan
AKA
lance armstrong!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
i honestly dont have ny wittly titles this time...sory
ok, i really dont know how to start this one or open the topic or what not, so i think im just gonna jump into it toady alright?
thanks, this one might be a little jumbled up, cause i dont really remember the time line so ill just type it as it comes to me...
alright
ok.
just a sec.
got it.
so in thailand people dont celebrate halloween, and well the other exchange students and i really could not let it go uncelebrted, so maria(im just goin to start using my friends names, cause"my friend", is simply to hard to type and i have to admit im kinda lazy...
any ways she organized a scavenger hut/ race across the entire city of khon kaen using all th places that we hang ut at, it was awesome, we were running all over town, jumping ito busses, taking pics with our cab drivers, basically being idiot farangs!
my team won,any ways, we took the lead at the guitar hereo/kareoke stop!
and we won free swensons from maria, swensons is amazing, have i never told you guys about it?
its like leatherbys. and its a major chain thats in like evey mall!
oh so on wednesday nights i usually have to attend a rotary meeting(i say usually beacause sometimes ill plead my host mom and i wont have to go)
but i HAD to go to this one, cause some big-wig rotary dude was sowing up, and he HAD to have a picture with me!
ok whateve, these things USUALLY last like an hour and a half, ill just take a book, and itll be over befoer you knoe it right?
WRONG!
i am not joking or exagerating in any way(not that i do that anyways)
but i ended up sitting in the corner of the resturaut, trying to to read(drunken that kareoke kan get on your nerves) for 4 hours and 29 min, the 30th min i took the picture and got the hell out of there!after about three hours my host mom asked if i was bored or if iwas having fun, i looked at her balnk faced and made the shoot-myself-in-the-head-motion to her, she thought that was hillarious aparently...
hey ive got good news though, ready
IM NOT GOING TO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK EITHER!!!!!!
I KNOW WHAT YOUR THINKING, BUT ACTTUALLY MY HOST MOMS FRIEND IS A NURSE AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL, SO NExt(oops left the caps lock on)week instead of goin to schol i get to folow her and othr doctors aroung and learn from them!
thats awesome for me, cause i interned in the er at mercy san juan in sac, and i really miss the hospital!
what else, ill be right back, im gonna get some water
o im back
what else, oh so ive started to take dance lessons with the other exchnge students, marias host mom ows a dance studio, and were learning the cha-cha(i recently found out that i can move my hips around quite well acually, i impressed her host mom i think) why, cause well thi dances honestly bore the snot out of me, its wierd in thai dance, you bendyour fingers back as far as you can, and wave your hands around, ok that was a little calous, but thats what it looks like, and its really bad for yur hands, and i have noiclination to do that to my self.
next subject
oh also we have fruit carving lessons!
wierd huh?
here i guess its like some kina art form, carving a cantolope to look likre a rose, sounds cool, but really im the worst student out of the 5 of us, somehow all of my carrots, cucumbers and melons turn out to be jackolanterns, when they should be mountains and swirls and flowers
but thats ok, cause the teacher likes me, she gets a good laugh out of the faces and random things i carve so its all good i guess
last thing on the list is since ive now been here for THREE MONTHS!(one third of the w done i guess)
i change host familys, i hung out with one of my new host bros the other day, and we started talking, and
1 he speaks english surprisingly well
2 we like the same cartoons
3 i have the maturity of a 13 year old, and he IS a 13 year old
good match huh?
my new house is like 3 stories, my host parents have a scooter shop dowstairs, the familys great, the other bro is 18, but hes really shy i guess, cause we havent talked that much,the only downside is i have to share a room with older bro, and that this house is about 10 km away frm the school, they were gonna put me on a bus, but i told them no id just bike it!
its not too bad, i did it this morning nd realy impressed my host om, she was betting agains me aparently!
oh and alo i live within walking distance of the BIGGEST and coolest ninght market ive ever been to!
anyways i should probably get off the comp and get to know my new family more, so untill next week..
ryan
oh i just remembered i got to got to the border of laos and thailand the other day to visit the thailand govt office for my visa, vietnamese food rocks!
hmm thats all
bye
man i need a haicut.
thanks, this one might be a little jumbled up, cause i dont really remember the time line so ill just type it as it comes to me...
alright
ok.
just a sec.
got it.
so in thailand people dont celebrate halloween, and well the other exchange students and i really could not let it go uncelebrted, so maria(im just goin to start using my friends names, cause"my friend", is simply to hard to type and i have to admit im kinda lazy...
any ways she organized a scavenger hut/ race across the entire city of khon kaen using all th places that we hang ut at, it was awesome, we were running all over town, jumping ito busses, taking pics with our cab drivers, basically being idiot farangs!
my team won,any ways, we took the lead at the guitar hereo/kareoke stop!
and we won free swensons from maria, swensons is amazing, have i never told you guys about it?
its like leatherbys. and its a major chain thats in like evey mall!
oh so on wednesday nights i usually have to attend a rotary meeting(i say usually beacause sometimes ill plead my host mom and i wont have to go)
but i HAD to go to this one, cause some big-wig rotary dude was sowing up, and he HAD to have a picture with me!
ok whateve, these things USUALLY last like an hour and a half, ill just take a book, and itll be over befoer you knoe it right?
WRONG!
i am not joking or exagerating in any way(not that i do that anyways)
but i ended up sitting in the corner of the resturaut, trying to to read(drunken that kareoke kan get on your nerves) for 4 hours and 29 min, the 30th min i took the picture and got the hell out of there!after about three hours my host mom asked if i was bored or if iwas having fun, i looked at her balnk faced and made the shoot-myself-in-the-head-motion to her, she thought that was hillarious aparently...
hey ive got good news though, ready
IM NOT GOING TO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK EITHER!!!!!!
I KNOW WHAT YOUR THINKING, BUT ACTTUALLY MY HOST MOMS FRIEND IS A NURSE AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL, SO NExt(oops left the caps lock on)week instead of goin to schol i get to folow her and othr doctors aroung and learn from them!
thats awesome for me, cause i interned in the er at mercy san juan in sac, and i really miss the hospital!
what else, ill be right back, im gonna get some water
o im back
what else, oh so ive started to take dance lessons with the other exchnge students, marias host mom ows a dance studio, and were learning the cha-cha(i recently found out that i can move my hips around quite well acually, i impressed her host mom i think) why, cause well thi dances honestly bore the snot out of me, its wierd in thai dance, you bendyour fingers back as far as you can, and wave your hands around, ok that was a little calous, but thats what it looks like, and its really bad for yur hands, and i have noiclination to do that to my self.
next subject
oh also we have fruit carving lessons!
wierd huh?
here i guess its like some kina art form, carving a cantolope to look likre a rose, sounds cool, but really im the worst student out of the 5 of us, somehow all of my carrots, cucumbers and melons turn out to be jackolanterns, when they should be mountains and swirls and flowers
but thats ok, cause the teacher likes me, she gets a good laugh out of the faces and random things i carve so its all good i guess
last thing on the list is since ive now been here for THREE MONTHS!(one third of the w done i guess)
i change host familys, i hung out with one of my new host bros the other day, and we started talking, and
1 he speaks english surprisingly well
2 we like the same cartoons
3 i have the maturity of a 13 year old, and he IS a 13 year old
good match huh?
my new house is like 3 stories, my host parents have a scooter shop dowstairs, the familys great, the other bro is 18, but hes really shy i guess, cause we havent talked that much,the only downside is i have to share a room with older bro, and that this house is about 10 km away frm the school, they were gonna put me on a bus, but i told them no id just bike it!
its not too bad, i did it this morning nd realy impressed my host om, she was betting agains me aparently!
oh and alo i live within walking distance of the BIGGEST and coolest ninght market ive ever been to!
anyways i should probably get off the comp and get to know my new family more, so untill next week..
ryan
oh i just remembered i got to got to the border of laos and thailand the other day to visit the thailand govt office for my visa, vietnamese food rocks!
hmm thats all
bye
man i need a haicut.
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