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!