ok.... so this one is gonna be a tough one to exp,ain, cause well to be honest, its really all a blur now, so i think what im gonna do is just make a bulleted list of what i remember,
so to start out i should atleast freashen you memories, last post i was right a bout to leave o a trip with all of the exchange students again for ten days, and we were gonna travel all over the northeast of thailand in a big bus, and basically stop at a new hotel every other night!
sooo
hm i dont even know where to begin...
well to start off, we went to go a nd ride elephants again, every time i do it, its awesme, the one we went to that day was a pretty sweet it was an elephant sanctuarry, it had a hospital with newborns and every thing, and the elephant that i rode was someting like 50 years old!!
and on the way back the handler said the elephant was really tierd, and asked if it would be cool if he let the old guy ford the river on his way back so it could cool off, uumm let me think, yes!!!
so here i am having to pull up my feet so i wont get wet while this 20ft beast takes a bath with me on his back!!
hmm what else, oh yeah, so one day we go to this place called the "white temple" and it suposedly really famous, so we go there and, surprise surprise the palce is white and silver, so it would glitter in the sun, it was beautiful and all, but when we went to enter the plce it got pretty fraky, first there was athis little walkway over a sculpture, but the sculpture was just tons of white hands reaching up to grab the people on the walk way, some were deformed, others had claws, ans even others had eyeson the palms, ad let me tell you this was one of the scariest pieces of art ive ever seen(second to what was inside the temple) it just looked so realistic, don right to the lines on thier palms!
but so i moved on(quickly) and when i got inside it seemed everyone was looking through the door i had just came through, i turned around o see a massive mural that took up the entire wall, on the top was buddha looking dwn on everything, but underneath it was pictures of pain and suffering, there were sillouettes of guns and ammo painted in evey where, the wolrd trade center in flames, people dying, rape, and just terrible images all over the wall, and spread through out the entire painting were scenes from western cultere, movies, and such, but one of the most disturbing things was that below buddhas face wasa massive demon(eveything else was painted ontop of that) inside the left and right eyes were two figures, at first we couldent make them out, but once we stepped back we realized that it was osama bin laden, and george bush, it was an incradibly beautiful, yet terrifying painting, and it wasnt even finished yt the artist still had two walls to go, from my understanding the mural was all about how buddha is above all of the suffering and pain in the world, it was just a vrey intresting temple, and it made us all wonder what the thai people really thought about western cultre..
oh how could i forget!!
so theres this girl there named megan, she also plays guitar,, weve started up a two person band called "sex in the rain" umm its kind of an inside joke that none of us get, but its catchy and bold, so dont ask questions,
so any ways we were talking, on the bus about how cool it would be to sit on the side of the road and try to get money by palying music, so that day as soon as we got off the buss we snagged our guitars, and walked don the marketplace in chang rai, found a stoop, sat down with my case open and started to paly, an something cool happened....poeple started throwing money in!!!
one fun thing was(megan plays for her church back home, so we both know alot of christian songs)while we were palying blessed be your name, a family from canada ran from around the corner, literally ran! to come and sing with us!
at the end of our hour or so of playing we headed back to the hotel tosnag some dinner and count our money, to find out that we got
370 baht!!!
which is like 12 bucks or so american, butin thailand where meals are like maybe 30 baht, 370 is a very nice amount of cash! we were sooo pumped!!!
oh another place we visited which was very cool was this village up in the mountains, a long neck tribe, and yes, they were the peole who put the brass rings around thier necks and calves to steatch them out!
IT WAS WILD!
im not exagerating here, but the wemons necks were atleast a foot long and they would just be chillin there making blankets, like nothing was wierd at all
what i gather from one of my friends is that the tribe isnt actually accepted but the thai gov, so thier forced to stay in thier villages on the mountzins, and the only way for them to earn money is to sell things theve made, and its kinda sad, cause whenever farangs come its like the circus is in town, but overall meeting those people was incradible, i mean ive only seen them on national geographnc you know!
oh we also went to a thai zoo, it was perty cool, i mean they had animals there that i didnt even know what they were, the only was i can describe one of them was ber-cat, at first i thought i was a really hairy thai dude hanging from the trees, so i fraked, and of course all of the descriptions are in thai, so i still have no idea wat it was,,,
oh another funny thing, you know how in america we have all those fences and stuff to keep stupid people out of the cages, well there arent any in thailand, i mean the only thing stopping me from riding a giraffe, was a four foot gap made to look like a river, in thailand, if you can jump four feet, you could kidnap an ostrich!
hmm oh we wentto aother palce called the golden triangle, where a river seperates bruma, laos and thailnad, that was sweet, i wasnt ble to head over thoug which was lame!
oh i also found out that bangkok ist the THE capitol of thaiand, thaind actually has three, we visited the first one which is a ruin city, called i think(the names kinda blend to gether lay off me!)sukhothai, the second city is ayuttya and third is bangkok, and our leader was telling us that in a hundred years orso thiell change it again!
well im sorry but thts all i can remember right now, but its not the end of my blog, because as soon as i got back i was blown away!, i had a ridiculous amout of gifts and cards waiting for me at my house!!!
THANKYOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you to everyone who sent me cards and gifts, especially to everyone at revoultion youth group!!!
i loved them, here i am opening up a pkg only to find it has over 30 cards stuffed into it from all of my friends, it was soo awesome! ilove you guys!!!(oh and whoever put thier finger print in a card as a signature... im sorry i have no idea who you are!)
oh today i played at a concert at school, i played bubble toes by jack johnson, and collide by howie day, but..... i played it on my brand new guitar, so ive been saving for a while, also with my parents help i was able to aford an acoustic/electreic guitar, it beautiful! its got the cutaway, abalone and pear inlay and sound increadible, i named her, just like my old one, but i had to give her a thai name, so i went with
tep lek-lek
it literally means "tiny angel"
hmm well i think that covers it for now, this is my last bog of the year you know....
tommorow ive gotta get up bright and earyl to meet my friend in khon kaen at 7, then well take a 5hr bus ride to ubon ratchatani,to see a band called bodyslam on newyears eve!!!
look at my youtube profile, and in my favories, you see two music videos! thier awesome!!!
so that about does it fr now, merry christ mass and happy new year!!!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
happy christmas! ....actually thats how my host mom says it, wierd, they dont celebrate christmas in thailand!
alright so i just got off the most AWKARD! songtail ride of my life!
(a songtil is kinda like a bus in thailand, they are reallly just pickup trucks with roofs on them and benches in the back, but to get from khon kaen to my first host moms house i have to rideo no one for 1hr, and since i took the last buss out, i had 24 thai people crammmed, no smushed into, no, perforating that picup truk!)
so i got on, and it was already wierd, cause therewere tons of people coming on, so i gave up my seat, and wento stand on the edge of the bed, holding onto a pole that connects to the roof and bottom corner of this little welded on satircase(im actually not in the truck right now, im suspended above the asphalt on a flimsy metal grate, thats about a foot above the ground, while the driver whizzez down the freeway)
when a kid, must have been mybe 12 or so hopps on right before we take off, hes looking for a place to hold onto, so he doesent hall out, awkward,y the oly place for him to grab onto a the two poles about half a foot behind me, and this kid is on the botom step facing me,
soooo, wierdly enough instead of moving next to one of the poles he decides to reac out with both hands and hold onto both of them......
ok i dont know if your getting the picture, here i am on the top step of the staircase facing backwards holding onto the rail on the celing, this kid is on the bottom step(which makes his head just above belly button range facing me while he holds onto two poles on either side of me about a foot or so back... the end result, i end up having a 1hr long hug from this dude, and because of the bumpy road, he was continually getting hit in the chin wth my optimus prime belt buckle!
ok enough ranting
sooooooo
oh, thats right i was in the hospital this week,
its really fun in the hospital now, cause basically whenever people come in needing stiches the doc lets me do them, one gut got nine in the foot, case he hit it with his axe(you shouldent do yard work in sandals aparently)
another dude got two in his chin, cause "somehow" after a party last night he ended up with buckshot in his face, and i would have done 5 on this 4 year old girl, but i opted not to, cause one she was thrashing all over the place, and 2 shes 4! if i mess something up id rather have her not lose that finger because of me!(it was a pretty gnarly gash! it went all the way p the side of the middle finger, and down to the bone(little kids= skinny fingers))
so the nurse asked me if id hold her down(im not bragging or any thing, but im pretty much the biggest guy in the ER, the nurses say i look like a bear because im about a good six inches taller than any of them)
those were the only really cool things in the ER
but i also shadow in the or too!
i got to see the s mastectomy(removal of part of the breast)
and this thing where they fix this dudes hernia(sorry must have missed that day in class)
AND HERES THE BEST PART!!!!!!!
OK YOU READY????
I
GOT
TO
SEE
THREE
C-SECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they were literally the COOLEST, most discusting surgerys i have ever seen!!!!!!!1
and let me tell you, honestly when a baby is first born, it is one of the most hideous things ive ever seen!
it was like i rolled over a rock and this nasty bleach white hairy gooey baby rolled out from under it!
so let me walk you through the first one, cause i serously jumped back, this thing scared me so bad!
so the doc makes his incision, goes pAast skin fat, and muscle until he reaches the massive uterus(this things big!)
he stars making a cut into it, and while hes cutting, the uterus is full of blood vessles, so blood is coming out like crazy! he cut al the way throu until you can see the amniotic sac( ok picture a huge translucent water balloon, with an alien monkey looking thing floating around inside!)
ok when we got to this step, i looked into the likke window thig the baby had goin on, i was lookin for the baby or any thing for that matter, and all of a sudden
A FACE PRESSED UP AGINST THE WALL OF TH SAC!!!!!!!!!
i jumped back, and yelled out, beacause it honesly didnt look human!!!!!
after i calmed dow, the doc popped the sac(kinda kide po the ballon win a prize games at the carnaival..... only this time the prize is a thai baby!)
he pops it, and fluid actually jets out of the uterus, and not just a litte bit, NO but a very healthy amount of murky fluid comes rushing out and all over the tabl(the second time i was standing a little close and it shot all over my hands an arms..... gross!
then he, quite forcfully byt the way snatches the baby by its head and shoulders and hauls it ou of th mommy, it looks like some thing out of aliens.
he then anounces wheather its a puying or a puchai and hands it off to two ladies to clean it off(on the thrid operation, the actually turned and handed me the baby i told the mom it was a girl....and then i handed it of to the ladies(kinda like hot potato i guess)
then the doc, sews up the uterus, and oddly enough tied thier tubes, and gave them an apendectomy before he closed them up, where he would teach me to do surgical stiches after he closed up all the other layers!
and that my friens is how, in a nutshell you perform a c-section....please dont read this and try it at home, things could get messy....
and well that was pretty much the most excitng part of my week!
hmm what else did i do
man, now every thing sounds lame compared to that!!!
i mean the only thing worth mentioning is how i went shopping for guitars with a friend today, and i think i found one, but honestly one one hand i have shopping, and onthe other i have fuidy babys and sutures! imean hell!
no contest!!!
hmm well sorry to have a short entyr this week, but ive gotta go and pack right now, cause tommoro im leaving on another rotarytrip to chaing mai(its in the north east of thailand, about 12 hr away, and the 38 of us ar gonna, hmm well i guess you find out in like 10 days or so, sorry but next weeks is gonna be a late one!
hmm the thing posted early on me i didnt even get to say good bye
oh well hopefully it doesnt post twice!
where was i oh yea...
so ill be gone for 10 days, then one day after i get back, my school is having a bunch of bands play for a new year party, and they want me to play, which i have no idea what im gonna do, i guess ill just wing it, and one day after that im heading out with some friends to go down south to see a band called bodyslam on new years eve!
so ive got a busy next three weeks!
and the real reason i wanted to fix this thing was because i didnt get a chance to say merry christma to all of you, and i wish i could be with my frieds and famil over tha holidays, but well its agains the rules!
oh well,
no worries
i hope you all have a great time and know that i miss you all very musch!
love,
ryan
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!
(a songtil is kinda like a bus in thailand, they are reallly just pickup trucks with roofs on them and benches in the back, but to get from khon kaen to my first host moms house i have to rideo no one for 1hr, and since i took the last buss out, i had 24 thai people crammmed, no smushed into, no, perforating that picup truk!)
so i got on, and it was already wierd, cause therewere tons of people coming on, so i gave up my seat, and wento stand on the edge of the bed, holding onto a pole that connects to the roof and bottom corner of this little welded on satircase(im actually not in the truck right now, im suspended above the asphalt on a flimsy metal grate, thats about a foot above the ground, while the driver whizzez down the freeway)
when a kid, must have been mybe 12 or so hopps on right before we take off, hes looking for a place to hold onto, so he doesent hall out, awkward,y the oly place for him to grab onto a the two poles about half a foot behind me, and this kid is on the botom step facing me,
soooo, wierdly enough instead of moving next to one of the poles he decides to reac out with both hands and hold onto both of them......
ok i dont know if your getting the picture, here i am on the top step of the staircase facing backwards holding onto the rail on the celing, this kid is on the bottom step(which makes his head just above belly button range facing me while he holds onto two poles on either side of me about a foot or so back... the end result, i end up having a 1hr long hug from this dude, and because of the bumpy road, he was continually getting hit in the chin wth my optimus prime belt buckle!
ok enough ranting
sooooooo
oh, thats right i was in the hospital this week,
its really fun in the hospital now, cause basically whenever people come in needing stiches the doc lets me do them, one gut got nine in the foot, case he hit it with his axe(you shouldent do yard work in sandals aparently)
another dude got two in his chin, cause "somehow" after a party last night he ended up with buckshot in his face, and i would have done 5 on this 4 year old girl, but i opted not to, cause one she was thrashing all over the place, and 2 shes 4! if i mess something up id rather have her not lose that finger because of me!(it was a pretty gnarly gash! it went all the way p the side of the middle finger, and down to the bone(little kids= skinny fingers))
so the nurse asked me if id hold her down(im not bragging or any thing, but im pretty much the biggest guy in the ER, the nurses say i look like a bear because im about a good six inches taller than any of them)
those were the only really cool things in the ER
but i also shadow in the or too!
i got to see the s mastectomy(removal of part of the breast)
and this thing where they fix this dudes hernia(sorry must have missed that day in class)
AND HERES THE BEST PART!!!!!!!
OK YOU READY????
I
GOT
TO
SEE
THREE
C-SECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they were literally the COOLEST, most discusting surgerys i have ever seen!!!!!!!1
and let me tell you, honestly when a baby is first born, it is one of the most hideous things ive ever seen!
it was like i rolled over a rock and this nasty bleach white hairy gooey baby rolled out from under it!
so let me walk you through the first one, cause i serously jumped back, this thing scared me so bad!
so the doc makes his incision, goes pAast skin fat, and muscle until he reaches the massive uterus(this things big!)
he stars making a cut into it, and while hes cutting, the uterus is full of blood vessles, so blood is coming out like crazy! he cut al the way throu until you can see the amniotic sac( ok picture a huge translucent water balloon, with an alien monkey looking thing floating around inside!)
ok when we got to this step, i looked into the likke window thig the baby had goin on, i was lookin for the baby or any thing for that matter, and all of a sudden
A FACE PRESSED UP AGINST THE WALL OF TH SAC!!!!!!!!!
i jumped back, and yelled out, beacause it honesly didnt look human!!!!!
after i calmed dow, the doc popped the sac(kinda kide po the ballon win a prize games at the carnaival..... only this time the prize is a thai baby!)
he pops it, and fluid actually jets out of the uterus, and not just a litte bit, NO but a very healthy amount of murky fluid comes rushing out and all over the tabl(the second time i was standing a little close and it shot all over my hands an arms..... gross!
then he, quite forcfully byt the way snatches the baby by its head and shoulders and hauls it ou of th mommy, it looks like some thing out of aliens.
he then anounces wheather its a puying or a puchai and hands it off to two ladies to clean it off(on the thrid operation, the actually turned and handed me the baby i told the mom it was a girl....and then i handed it of to the ladies(kinda like hot potato i guess)
then the doc, sews up the uterus, and oddly enough tied thier tubes, and gave them an apendectomy before he closed them up, where he would teach me to do surgical stiches after he closed up all the other layers!
and that my friens is how, in a nutshell you perform a c-section....please dont read this and try it at home, things could get messy....
and well that was pretty much the most excitng part of my week!
hmm what else did i do
man, now every thing sounds lame compared to that!!!
i mean the only thing worth mentioning is how i went shopping for guitars with a friend today, and i think i found one, but honestly one one hand i have shopping, and onthe other i have fuidy babys and sutures! imean hell!
no contest!!!
hmm well sorry to have a short entyr this week, but ive gotta go and pack right now, cause tommoro im leaving on another rotarytrip to chaing mai(its in the north east of thailand, about 12 hr away, and the 38 of us ar gonna, hmm well i guess you find out in like 10 days or so, sorry but next weeks is gonna be a late one!
hmm the thing posted early on me i didnt even get to say good bye
oh well hopefully it doesnt post twice!
where was i oh yea...
so ill be gone for 10 days, then one day after i get back, my school is having a bunch of bands play for a new year party, and they want me to play, which i have no idea what im gonna do, i guess ill just wing it, and one day after that im heading out with some friends to go down south to see a band called bodyslam on new years eve!
so ive got a busy next three weeks!
and the real reason i wanted to fix this thing was because i didnt get a chance to say merry christma to all of you, and i wish i could be with my frieds and famil over tha holidays, but well its agains the rules!
oh well,
no worries
i hope you all have a great time and know that i miss you all very musch!
love,
ryan
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, December 9, 2007
This Is Thailand...
hmmm ok so, man what happened?
let me think for a sec,
alright
wow its been a while
ok, so i had an early one last week cause i went to pukaung with all of the opther exchange students, and i was taking off again for bkk the next day ok i remember now!
so it was early in the morning like 4 or so when we took off, it was me, carol sarah, freya, and maria(four khon kaen girls) the maid, thier host mom and the like7ish year old daughter named star,
so its 4am and we start to leave, on the 6hr road to bkk in our big van, but thats ok, cause we see what we all think is a dvd player and i brought my big book of movies(ive got a nice collection going)
when we try to start a movie only to find out that its not a dvd player, but a VCD player!
ok.
seriously, befor comeing to thailand i had no idea what a vcd was, and for all you tech nologically advanced dudes, its baically cassete movie on a cd, and thiers 2 disks per movie,
of course i dont have any vcds...
but star does(oh i gotta tell you one thing about star, in thailand people rub massive amounts of baby powder on thier kids, to make them look whiter, dont ask,for thai people pale skin is beautiful and tan is ugly, any ways, star is ALWAYS absolutly COVERED! in white powder ever time i see her,its actually kinda scary, cause she looks like that little zombie girl from the grudge, it kind freaks me out some times cause that movie was scary, i mean im half ecpecting her toc crawl backwards down the stairs and on the celing and eat me!) TIT
where was i oh yeah star has vcds, but all that she has is HOURS of this one tv show clled pan and james, or something like that, and hour after hour all that we watched was a chimp and a monkey run around thailand and do errands for some creepy old man honestly if it wasnt for the stimulating conversation of the girls, i might of opened that door and tossed myself out of that van and taken my chances on the streets of thailand!
anyways we got thatere, and my friend daniel metus there and we went shopping for a while in a market the we were really excited because for lunch we hit up a subway(we ar in BANGKOK!) best lunch this month!
oh so that night was very cool, we went to this national geographic event, and went on a night time bike tour of bangkok, we went to the grand palace, all kinds of temples, we rode around in and out of trafic right next to the cars trying to keep up with the tour guide(whi i couldent understand by the way)
so all in all it was awesome bankoks really pretty at night and we had a great time
the next dy, all 6 of us went out to go and see the floating market, basically its this ummmm.... market, uh that is floating, like all of us are in this morotboat canoe thingie right, and all the stands shops and places are like these likke ports that come off of the canal waterway thing were sailing around in, it was fun to go to and see, but daniel and i didnt buy anything, cause well everything there is so freaking EXPENSIVE!!!
its like this major tourist trap right and well were not tourists any more, and i know it sounds bad, but when we see americans in like khon kaen, its like i think "aww man look theres another dumb farang in my city" and trust me, i know how hipocryitical that sounds!
vbut anyways bottom line, im not stupid enough to pay 2800 bhat for that sword.
oh they also had a sweet floating temple that we went to pray at, it was right on the water and it had some pretty sweet gold statues of buhdda there!
alright dudes im just gonna save this and finish tommoro, soory but this is gonna be a late post im just really tierd...................click save(the sreans in thai, so all i know is the blue button means save.....
ok good to be back, sorry about that , where was i
ok
oh so that night we went to some palce it was like the hundred year celebration and what not, really it was just a huge party!
ok the main event, so the rest of the trip was cool and all, but what hapened on our last day was by far the greatest!
so we stayed at this sweet hotel that where our room was actually floating on the water(its like a pattern) and our porch was like a little raft with an awning and chairs tied to the room!
so we drive for a while till we come to this place out in the middle of nowhere where we then hop into the bac of a pickup truck and he whisks us away to the mouth of a massiv-in-the-middle-of-the-freakin-jungle-river!!!
im serious it was like arnold swarzenager would bust out of the vines with the perdator on his shoulders any min!
TIT
so were standing at the river bank, and jack sparrow(this dude LOOKED like a pirate) tells us to get on his raft, and its not some infaltable thing, nonono its a super thin swatch of stringed up bamboo, this thing looked like it wouldent float star, letalone me!
but we got on, surpringly it worked, and were rafting down this river when he says(in thai of course) you guys can hop in if you want!
sweet, witout thinking i launch myself off of the raft and into the JUNGLE RIVER,keyword, jungle!
then i start thinking, snakes, hmm crocs, hmmm penis fish(c'mon you knowthose fish that swim up you whoo-hoo when you pee in the river)and suddenly swiming didnt sound like so great an idea, but i had to tough it out ad look like a strong dude!
after we rafted the river we got out and he drove us to this place whit a big ladder thing, and then an elephant with a seat on it comes round to the other side!
so we hop on, andride the elephatn, after a while, we as the dude if we can sit where hes sitting, nt the neck behingd the ears, sure he says, and he doesthis crazy thing where he jumps off, swungs down the tusks and lands like a cat after a 20 fot fall, so we swithch plces and it was awesom!!!
i dont even know how to describe it now, just picture me on an elephants neck yelling and holding on for dear life an youll get the gist of it!
after that, we took them into the riveer to wash them, im still on the neck here and the elepahnt is in the water so deep now that it has its trunk above the water like periscope so it can breathe!, the dude toses me a brush and soap,,,,so i wash the elephants head, it was fun, and it ket oing this wierd dive thing, where weed both go under water for lke five seconds, then it would hop back to norman=l!
TIT
so that was our trip, well the interesting parts anyway
sorry about being abrupt, but ive still got a while to go!
so i get back home shower, and clean my clothes, and the next day, im going to p/u my friend zach in khon kaen, and were gonna stay the next couple nights iny first host moms house and wrk at the english camp at my school the next 2 days, so the night befoer was fist off the kings b-day, wich was huge cause he turned 81 the were celbrations and everything, and faters day, so we went out to eat at this resturaut with my family and some of thier friends, and they kept asking me to eat this wird shellfish nastly looking stuff, so of course, havent gotten sick yet, so i minght as well try it, it turs out it tasted exactly th way it looked, and i didnt think my more of it........until round 3am the next day, i wake up sweating, and i feel absolutly terrible!
so i stagger dow to the hognam ad do some buiesess, feeing doesent go away, im looking at myself in the mirror and i think to my self i wont spew, i havent spewed since like 6th grade!
LTERALLY as soon as i finsh that thought it all comes up on the bathroom flor!
and oh no its not over yet, them myface gets supper hot, then cold, and i collapse, ive never really felt that weak before, so there i am its 3-4ish am and im laying on the bathromm floor yaking something nastly for about an hour and a half or so,
ok ill skip the gory details, but because of that tom yam, i didnt get to bed again until around 6, after id barfd something like 5-6 times
oh well TIT
the next day, i was supposed to p/u zach, but my host mom after seeing the buket by my bed, told me i was going to the hospital,you know the best thing about being friends with the er and docs, is that when you get sick, your pushed to the front of the line and geven all your meds for free, id like to see that happen in the states.
TIT
long story short, then i went home, my host mom picked up zach and i crashed for a good period of that day, then i met zach, and we hung out watched movies until way to late, the next m orn, we woke up late, and got to the school only to find out tht... they reallydidnt need us at all, all we did was teach them a song in english(ming was the ants go marching one by one.....HURRAH)
so after we finished the 6 of us started wndering the srteets of namphong, only to find ourselves at the firework store, and mom, thats all i have to say about that.
rmember... TIT
tht nigh was basically the same, exept it was the docs b-day, and he asked if zacha and i could come and chill and eat some fried fish with him them we met up with the girls, and watched movies(i told you ive got a good stash)
and wel the next day we did the same exact thing all over again, i really dont know what to say, oh i cut my hair but thats about it, oh did you know in taiand, its really bad luck to cut your hair on a wednesday?
i treid, and both my host moms actually stopped me saying it was bad luck then my hm asked if zach wnated to stay another two nights so he could see this chinese festival in the town tommoro night, the festival was sweet, we actually rode bumber cars!, they had like a fair going on and every thing, ad they had people all dressed up in costume donign plays anout anchiet china, it was a blast!
hmm ok im spent sorry bout the late post, but thos is all ive got for you right now,
ok till next week..
ryan
ps, and if you still dont know what TIT is nd you think im ust being dirty look at the title of the blog!
peace!
let me think for a sec,
alright
wow its been a while
ok, so i had an early one last week cause i went to pukaung with all of the opther exchange students, and i was taking off again for bkk the next day ok i remember now!
so it was early in the morning like 4 or so when we took off, it was me, carol sarah, freya, and maria(four khon kaen girls) the maid, thier host mom and the like7ish year old daughter named star,
so its 4am and we start to leave, on the 6hr road to bkk in our big van, but thats ok, cause we see what we all think is a dvd player and i brought my big book of movies(ive got a nice collection going)
when we try to start a movie only to find out that its not a dvd player, but a VCD player!
ok.
seriously, befor comeing to thailand i had no idea what a vcd was, and for all you tech nologically advanced dudes, its baically cassete movie on a cd, and thiers 2 disks per movie,
of course i dont have any vcds...
but star does(oh i gotta tell you one thing about star, in thailand people rub massive amounts of baby powder on thier kids, to make them look whiter, dont ask,for thai people pale skin is beautiful and tan is ugly, any ways, star is ALWAYS absolutly COVERED! in white powder ever time i see her,its actually kinda scary, cause she looks like that little zombie girl from the grudge, it kind freaks me out some times cause that movie was scary, i mean im half ecpecting her toc crawl backwards down the stairs and on the celing and eat me!) TIT
where was i oh yeah star has vcds, but all that she has is HOURS of this one tv show clled pan and james, or something like that, and hour after hour all that we watched was a chimp and a monkey run around thailand and do errands for some creepy old man honestly if it wasnt for the stimulating conversation of the girls, i might of opened that door and tossed myself out of that van and taken my chances on the streets of thailand!
anyways we got thatere, and my friend daniel metus there and we went shopping for a while in a market the we were really excited because for lunch we hit up a subway(we ar in BANGKOK!) best lunch this month!
oh so that night was very cool, we went to this national geographic event, and went on a night time bike tour of bangkok, we went to the grand palace, all kinds of temples, we rode around in and out of trafic right next to the cars trying to keep up with the tour guide(whi i couldent understand by the way)
so all in all it was awesome bankoks really pretty at night and we had a great time
the next dy, all 6 of us went out to go and see the floating market, basically its this ummmm.... market, uh that is floating, like all of us are in this morotboat canoe thingie right, and all the stands shops and places are like these likke ports that come off of the canal waterway thing were sailing around in, it was fun to go to and see, but daniel and i didnt buy anything, cause well everything there is so freaking EXPENSIVE!!!
its like this major tourist trap right and well were not tourists any more, and i know it sounds bad, but when we see americans in like khon kaen, its like i think "aww man look theres another dumb farang in my city" and trust me, i know how hipocryitical that sounds!
vbut anyways bottom line, im not stupid enough to pay 2800 bhat for that sword.
oh they also had a sweet floating temple that we went to pray at, it was right on the water and it had some pretty sweet gold statues of buhdda there!
alright dudes im just gonna save this and finish tommoro, soory but this is gonna be a late post im just really tierd...................click save(the sreans in thai, so all i know is the blue button means save.....
ok good to be back, sorry about that , where was i
ok
oh so that night we went to some palce it was like the hundred year celebration and what not, really it was just a huge party!
ok the main event, so the rest of the trip was cool and all, but what hapened on our last day was by far the greatest!
so we stayed at this sweet hotel that where our room was actually floating on the water(its like a pattern) and our porch was like a little raft with an awning and chairs tied to the room!
so we drive for a while till we come to this place out in the middle of nowhere where we then hop into the bac of a pickup truck and he whisks us away to the mouth of a massiv-in-the-middle-of-the-freakin-jungle-river!!!
im serious it was like arnold swarzenager would bust out of the vines with the perdator on his shoulders any min!
TIT
so were standing at the river bank, and jack sparrow(this dude LOOKED like a pirate) tells us to get on his raft, and its not some infaltable thing, nonono its a super thin swatch of stringed up bamboo, this thing looked like it wouldent float star, letalone me!
but we got on, surpringly it worked, and were rafting down this river when he says(in thai of course) you guys can hop in if you want!
sweet, witout thinking i launch myself off of the raft and into the JUNGLE RIVER,keyword, jungle!
then i start thinking, snakes, hmm crocs, hmmm penis fish(c'mon you knowthose fish that swim up you whoo-hoo when you pee in the river)and suddenly swiming didnt sound like so great an idea, but i had to tough it out ad look like a strong dude!
after we rafted the river we got out and he drove us to this place whit a big ladder thing, and then an elephant with a seat on it comes round to the other side!
so we hop on, andride the elephatn, after a while, we as the dude if we can sit where hes sitting, nt the neck behingd the ears, sure he says, and he doesthis crazy thing where he jumps off, swungs down the tusks and lands like a cat after a 20 fot fall, so we swithch plces and it was awesom!!!
i dont even know how to describe it now, just picture me on an elephants neck yelling and holding on for dear life an youll get the gist of it!
after that, we took them into the riveer to wash them, im still on the neck here and the elepahnt is in the water so deep now that it has its trunk above the water like periscope so it can breathe!, the dude toses me a brush and soap,,,,so i wash the elephants head, it was fun, and it ket oing this wierd dive thing, where weed both go under water for lke five seconds, then it would hop back to norman=l!
TIT
so that was our trip, well the interesting parts anyway
sorry about being abrupt, but ive still got a while to go!
so i get back home shower, and clean my clothes, and the next day, im going to p/u my friend zach in khon kaen, and were gonna stay the next couple nights iny first host moms house and wrk at the english camp at my school the next 2 days, so the night befoer was fist off the kings b-day, wich was huge cause he turned 81 the were celbrations and everything, and faters day, so we went out to eat at this resturaut with my family and some of thier friends, and they kept asking me to eat this wird shellfish nastly looking stuff, so of course, havent gotten sick yet, so i minght as well try it, it turs out it tasted exactly th way it looked, and i didnt think my more of it........until round 3am the next day, i wake up sweating, and i feel absolutly terrible!
so i stagger dow to the hognam ad do some buiesess, feeing doesent go away, im looking at myself in the mirror and i think to my self i wont spew, i havent spewed since like 6th grade!
LTERALLY as soon as i finsh that thought it all comes up on the bathroom flor!
and oh no its not over yet, them myface gets supper hot, then cold, and i collapse, ive never really felt that weak before, so there i am its 3-4ish am and im laying on the bathromm floor yaking something nastly for about an hour and a half or so,
ok ill skip the gory details, but because of that tom yam, i didnt get to bed again until around 6, after id barfd something like 5-6 times
oh well TIT
the next day, i was supposed to p/u zach, but my host mom after seeing the buket by my bed, told me i was going to the hospital,you know the best thing about being friends with the er and docs, is that when you get sick, your pushed to the front of the line and geven all your meds for free, id like to see that happen in the states.
TIT
long story short, then i went home, my host mom picked up zach and i crashed for a good period of that day, then i met zach, and we hung out watched movies until way to late, the next m orn, we woke up late, and got to the school only to find out tht... they reallydidnt need us at all, all we did was teach them a song in english(ming was the ants go marching one by one.....HURRAH)
so after we finished the 6 of us started wndering the srteets of namphong, only to find ourselves at the firework store, and mom, thats all i have to say about that.
rmember... TIT
tht nigh was basically the same, exept it was the docs b-day, and he asked if zacha and i could come and chill and eat some fried fish with him them we met up with the girls, and watched movies(i told you ive got a good stash)
and wel the next day we did the same exact thing all over again, i really dont know what to say, oh i cut my hair but thats about it, oh did you know in taiand, its really bad luck to cut your hair on a wednesday?
i treid, and both my host moms actually stopped me saying it was bad luck then my hm asked if zach wnated to stay another two nights so he could see this chinese festival in the town tommoro night, the festival was sweet, we actually rode bumber cars!, they had like a fair going on and every thing, ad they had people all dressed up in costume donign plays anout anchiet china, it was a blast!
hmm ok im spent sorry bout the late post, but thos is all ive got for you right now,
ok till next week..
ryan
ps, and if you still dont know what TIT is nd you think im ust being dirty look at the title of the blog!
peace!
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