so last time i left you zach and daniel and i were all at my house and we were gearing up for the outbound camp(oh by the way when we went to pick up zach we discovered what is quite possibly the greatest form of transportation on earth!
THE TRAIN!!
its SOO much better than the busses, cause well all the windows are open, so you never have to worry about it getting super hot in there, its way faster, and finally it costs like 30 baht(less than a dollar) to go like 50 or so Km!
alright were was i?
oh yeah so we woke up early that mornig, and the 3 of us got on a bus headed to korat, once we got there we did what we always do to kill time...
GO TO 7!!!
while we were ther we met an old farang man who was buying some... beers i think and he asked us where we were from, and struck up a convo with us, and we learned that he was from scotland(ridiculous accent) but had spent the last 50 yeas of his life in california 25 in san diego, and the last 25 as a carnie in the sanfrancisco!
pretty intrestin guy, when we asked him if he could speak english, his answer(in crazy scottish accent was
"FOOK! i 'an b'rly spick 'inglish!!"
anyways after mwe got our slurpees we headed back to the bus/screaming metal deathtrap and hopped on to go to this cam which was like 3 hours outside of civilizationwe passed the time by sitting n the back step and you know trowing paper airplanes at cars, dragging objects on bits of string, guys stuff.
so once we get therewe unpack oour stuff, and just hang out with eachother, three students were picked to un the camp, and they had lots of games, and activites planned, overall it was a great week,
one of the games was an air band contest, which i put ours up on youtube(http://www.youtube.com/user/rynalias)
i really cant plug that enough...
sooo what else, also we got to play alot of guitar, and sign things(like you know yearbooks),play with water balloons, climb ropes courses basically do whatever we wanted..
and the last night we stayed up superlate, and a friend put together an awesome slideshow of pics of all our trips
overall it was a great capoff to our trips!
so this is a short one i guess, but hey i did load 2 new videos on my youtube(the adress is in the blog)its a documentary that zach and i made!
well im done im gonna watch a movie
ryan
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
the beggining of the end pt 3 ryan the destitute/current events
alright.
so last time i left you i was talking about man week right???
alright , so due to some events in man week one week later we foundourselves with next to no cash and two of my friendswith major bruises, scrapes and cuts all over themselves!
(dont ask now, i cant tell you until im out of the country)
so whilst sitting in a bus station contomplating our future, how we'd get home and the state of my friends physical health we came up with a brilliant idea, my friend andrew and i would use the last of our money to make it to banbueng(stll 7 hours away from my home in khon kaen) andrew would then use his extra to get home the next day, while i(literally i have no money at this point) would stay with daniel at his house for the next 10 days until my host mom came to the south for a rotary confrence, upon which i would meet up with her, and then daniel would come back to my house with me until the outboud camp on the 7th!
(whew that took a while to explain, trust me, it took us quite a while to reate this plan and ok it with mae tuk, but one wrench which ill get back to later was that daniel had no phone, sowe were never really able to ok it with his host mom)
so here we are the three of us on a bus to banbeung, when it starts to dump rain! i thought it wasnt that big of a deal at first, until the bus dropped the three of us off on the side of the highway about 2k away from daniels house!
so right now its monsoon status rain, and were grappling withour bags, and me with my guitar when we spot shelter....kinda
on the side of the road was a row of unused sections of concrete sewer pipes so the tree of us rush over to our respective pipe, trow our bags in, and wait out the storm inside these 5 foot pipes!
it was AWESOME!
so after a while the rain stopps and we start the hike to daniels house we settle in for the night not knowing what boring hell awaits us...
the next day andrew sets off, and and daniel realizes that his ankle is alot bigger than it was las night(remember 2 of us were pretty banged up) and apparenty is in alot of pain, so we find a motorcycle taxi, both of us climb on and head off to the hospital!
after lots of wait time,xrays, and hospital bills which we some how with our mediocre thai skills got them to let us pay next week!
we found out that it wasnt broken, jsut really badly bruised and a little infected(daniel never listened to me!)
so at first we thought the next week and a half wouldent be so bad, we had tons of dvds and well we downloaded pokemon on his computer so we were playin that like cazy!
we lasted like 2 day before we started goin a little bit nuts.
no money=no food
no money=no were to go
no money=no new movies
no money=ryan and daniel sitting on the couch staring at the wall.
we were seriously climbing the walls, until one day, remember how i said that his mom didnt know that i was gonna be staying there?
well once we got there he asked, and she grudginly said yes(not the nicest lady, but hey she still let me sleep there for like 5 days so she cant be that bad)
after 5 days though she kinda welll...
changed her mind?
yep she really didnt give me a reason but she said that shed give daniel his allowance early, and with that we could leave to my house and sit out our time until the outbound camp there!
well were didnt argue.
next day i thanked her profusely for herhospitality and the both of us got the H outta dodge!
so once we got home i found atm card(i left it on my desk, thats why i was broke)
and instantly i was rich!
so for the next week or so we stayed at my house and just hung out, my other friend zach came by too, and the 3 of us counted the days till the out bound camp!
more on that later!
now ill give you a little current events
today i PACKED!
yep
i packed every scrap of clothing i own into my bag today it was wierd seeing my empty closet.
now all ive got left to take care of is all of my non clothes itemsbooks, pics ect you know all those random things ive accumulated over 10 months!
ive made a deal with a friend of mine in kk shes gonna come over and help me figure out what to pack and what to toss, as long as i go over there and help her do the same thing!
wow i never really thought this time would come!
what else?
oh, just something cool that happened today...
today it rained pretty hard, but i had to mail so me letters, buy some blank cds, and pick up some lunch, so i just grabbed my umbrella and ipod and walked the streets of my village running errands in the rain!
it was awesome! it made me kinda sad i was leaving so soon!
it was one of those moments where i thank god for letting me be in thailand!
any ways i thought it was pretty boss so hey im writing about it!
hmmm thas all i got for now
10days and counting!
well its been great, "but im quite sleepy"
so...
bye
ryan
so last time i left you i was talking about man week right???
alright , so due to some events in man week one week later we foundourselves with next to no cash and two of my friendswith major bruises, scrapes and cuts all over themselves!
(dont ask now, i cant tell you until im out of the country)
so whilst sitting in a bus station contomplating our future, how we'd get home and the state of my friends physical health we came up with a brilliant idea, my friend andrew and i would use the last of our money to make it to banbueng(stll 7 hours away from my home in khon kaen) andrew would then use his extra to get home the next day, while i(literally i have no money at this point) would stay with daniel at his house for the next 10 days until my host mom came to the south for a rotary confrence, upon which i would meet up with her, and then daniel would come back to my house with me until the outboud camp on the 7th!
(whew that took a while to explain, trust me, it took us quite a while to reate this plan and ok it with mae tuk, but one wrench which ill get back to later was that daniel had no phone, sowe were never really able to ok it with his host mom)
so here we are the three of us on a bus to banbeung, when it starts to dump rain! i thought it wasnt that big of a deal at first, until the bus dropped the three of us off on the side of the highway about 2k away from daniels house!
so right now its monsoon status rain, and were grappling withour bags, and me with my guitar when we spot shelter....kinda
on the side of the road was a row of unused sections of concrete sewer pipes so the tree of us rush over to our respective pipe, trow our bags in, and wait out the storm inside these 5 foot pipes!
it was AWESOME!
so after a while the rain stopps and we start the hike to daniels house we settle in for the night not knowing what boring hell awaits us...
the next day andrew sets off, and and daniel realizes that his ankle is alot bigger than it was las night(remember 2 of us were pretty banged up) and apparenty is in alot of pain, so we find a motorcycle taxi, both of us climb on and head off to the hospital!
after lots of wait time,xrays, and hospital bills which we some how with our mediocre thai skills got them to let us pay next week!
we found out that it wasnt broken, jsut really badly bruised and a little infected(daniel never listened to me!)
so at first we thought the next week and a half wouldent be so bad, we had tons of dvds and well we downloaded pokemon on his computer so we were playin that like cazy!
we lasted like 2 day before we started goin a little bit nuts.
no money=no food
no money=no were to go
no money=no new movies
no money=ryan and daniel sitting on the couch staring at the wall.
we were seriously climbing the walls, until one day, remember how i said that his mom didnt know that i was gonna be staying there?
well once we got there he asked, and she grudginly said yes(not the nicest lady, but hey she still let me sleep there for like 5 days so she cant be that bad)
after 5 days though she kinda welll...
changed her mind?
yep she really didnt give me a reason but she said that shed give daniel his allowance early, and with that we could leave to my house and sit out our time until the outbound camp there!
well were didnt argue.
next day i thanked her profusely for herhospitality and the both of us got the H outta dodge!
so once we got home i found atm card(i left it on my desk, thats why i was broke)
and instantly i was rich!
so for the next week or so we stayed at my house and just hung out, my other friend zach came by too, and the 3 of us counted the days till the out bound camp!
more on that later!
now ill give you a little current events
today i PACKED!
yep
i packed every scrap of clothing i own into my bag today it was wierd seeing my empty closet.
now all ive got left to take care of is all of my non clothes itemsbooks, pics ect you know all those random things ive accumulated over 10 months!
ive made a deal with a friend of mine in kk shes gonna come over and help me figure out what to pack and what to toss, as long as i go over there and help her do the same thing!
wow i never really thought this time would come!
what else?
oh, just something cool that happened today...
today it rained pretty hard, but i had to mail so me letters, buy some blank cds, and pick up some lunch, so i just grabbed my umbrella and ipod and walked the streets of my village running errands in the rain!
it was awesome! it made me kinda sad i was leaving so soon!
it was one of those moments where i thank god for letting me be in thailand!
any ways i thought it was pretty boss so hey im writing about it!
hmmm thas all i got for now
10days and counting!
well its been great, "but im quite sleepy"
so...
bye
ryan
Sunday, June 1, 2008
the beggining of the end pt 2 man week!
alright, so as some of you may know as far as the ratio of guys to girls goes, its pretty much three to one!
which at some times is ok, maybe even preferable, but you know that after a while us guys start to......
um how do i put this nicely.....
get a little antsy!
we all decided we needed a little bit of a break from all of the women so we concocted the idea of a"man week"
yep
all men
all week.
so after much cajoling of our host familys,
6 guys found ourselves at my friend julians house, about an hr away from the shore!
the next day we all hopped on a bus, then we got onto a ferry for another hour till we found ourselves on the island of koh chang!
yep for one week all six guys would be strande3d on an island off the coast of thailand!
ands so for the next 6 days we spent our time sitting on the beach, smoking cigars, and drinking smoothies!
and really thats all i can say about that online.
so, if you want to know more, please look me up in 11 days, or hit me up with an email @ ryn_alias@yahoo.com and i would be more than happy to recap the events of that week!
im really sorry but weve got rules..
thats my story for tonight, see you tomorow!!
ryan
which at some times is ok, maybe even preferable, but you know that after a while us guys start to......
um how do i put this nicely.....
get a little antsy!
we all decided we needed a little bit of a break from all of the women so we concocted the idea of a"man week"
yep
all men
all week.
so after much cajoling of our host familys,
6 guys found ourselves at my friend julians house, about an hr away from the shore!
the next day we all hopped on a bus, then we got onto a ferry for another hour till we found ourselves on the island of koh chang!
yep for one week all six guys would be strande3d on an island off the coast of thailand!
ands so for the next 6 days we spent our time sitting on the beach, smoking cigars, and drinking smoothies!
and really thats all i can say about that online.
so, if you want to know more, please look me up in 11 days, or hit me up with an email @ ryn_alias@yahoo.com and i would be more than happy to recap the events of that week!
im really sorry but weve got rules..
thats my story for tonight, see you tomorow!!
ryan
the beggining of the end pt 1 song kran
wow, so its been quite a while, since ive posted hasnt it???
sorry bout that!
its just that things have gotten pretty hectick, and in the last month or so ive been in korat, bangkok, kohn kaen, koh chang, chanta buri, chonburi, ban bueng, and udon thani!!
where to begin, alright, ill jump off from songkran!
songkran, is the biggest festival in thailand, and it takes place in april, one of the hottest monthes in thailand!
what is songkran, to put it very blunt, and mind numbingly simple, all you do is throw water at anyone, and everyone, and if you see any poosaus(its like the thai word for babes, you know foxes-shaa-wing) you rub white powder on thier faces(why, honestly? beats me.)
basically its the thai new year, and the water is like washing away the old year, anyways, thats my understanding of it, so i was going to korat andi i was gonna chill with my friends thier for a few days, then head back for the last few days of the festivalwith my host family, but some complications came up, and well... i found myself with out a place to stay, so i called around, and found that a few friends of mine were in bangkokfor a few days, and had a couch i could crash on, so i hopped on a bus and headed west to meet up with my friends!
so once i got there, dropped off my bags and everything, we went out to kao sarn road(backpacker haven) and pretty much for the next 2 days, bought supersoakers, and walked the streets of bangkok getting in water and baby powder fights with anyone we met!!
songkran is probably the greatest holiday on earth, anyone up for celebrating once i get back???
so after 2 days there i hopped back on the bus and went back to kk to meet up with my host family, as soon as i got there, me, 3 of my cousins and my host bro piled into the back of a pickup truck carrieng 2 garbage buckets ful of water and ice(makes it colder, duh)
and proceded to drive up and down the mainstreet of khon kaen throwing water from our buckets at paserbys motorcycle drivers ans other people in the backs of other pickups!
that night i went to a street concert with my host bro and cousins
this street was PACKED and it had stages all down the street with a plethora of bands playing, form hiphop, to metal, to screamo, to traditional! Everything and anything music wise was playing!
after we got home the cousins and i stayed up playing video games for a while(i havent played video games in ages!!) then we all crashed, and well to make a long story short, we did it all over again to mmoro!!
and that ladies and gentlemen is SONG KRAN!!!
again im very sorry i havent posted, but as you can see the title is the beggining of the end pt 1
so each night from here on out ill try to write about a major event that has happened!
these are gonna be a little short, but hey its what i got...
well 12 days left in thailand
see you tommoro!
ryan
ps
check out my youtube, ive got a couple new ones up
http://www.youtube.com/user/rynalias
bye!
sorry bout that!
its just that things have gotten pretty hectick, and in the last month or so ive been in korat, bangkok, kohn kaen, koh chang, chanta buri, chonburi, ban bueng, and udon thani!!
where to begin, alright, ill jump off from songkran!
songkran, is the biggest festival in thailand, and it takes place in april, one of the hottest monthes in thailand!
what is songkran, to put it very blunt, and mind numbingly simple, all you do is throw water at anyone, and everyone, and if you see any poosaus(its like the thai word for babes, you know foxes-shaa-wing) you rub white powder on thier faces(why, honestly? beats me.)
basically its the thai new year, and the water is like washing away the old year, anyways, thats my understanding of it, so i was going to korat andi i was gonna chill with my friends thier for a few days, then head back for the last few days of the festivalwith my host family, but some complications came up, and well... i found myself with out a place to stay, so i called around, and found that a few friends of mine were in bangkokfor a few days, and had a couch i could crash on, so i hopped on a bus and headed west to meet up with my friends!
so once i got there, dropped off my bags and everything, we went out to kao sarn road(backpacker haven) and pretty much for the next 2 days, bought supersoakers, and walked the streets of bangkok getting in water and baby powder fights with anyone we met!!
songkran is probably the greatest holiday on earth, anyone up for celebrating once i get back???
so after 2 days there i hopped back on the bus and went back to kk to meet up with my host family, as soon as i got there, me, 3 of my cousins and my host bro piled into the back of a pickup truck carrieng 2 garbage buckets ful of water and ice(makes it colder, duh)
and proceded to drive up and down the mainstreet of khon kaen throwing water from our buckets at paserbys motorcycle drivers ans other people in the backs of other pickups!
that night i went to a street concert with my host bro and cousins
this street was PACKED and it had stages all down the street with a plethora of bands playing, form hiphop, to metal, to screamo, to traditional! Everything and anything music wise was playing!
after we got home the cousins and i stayed up playing video games for a while(i havent played video games in ages!!) then we all crashed, and well to make a long story short, we did it all over again to mmoro!!
and that ladies and gentlemen is SONG KRAN!!!
again im very sorry i havent posted, but as you can see the title is the beggining of the end pt 1
so each night from here on out ill try to write about a major event that has happened!
these are gonna be a little short, but hey its what i got...
well 12 days left in thailand
see you tommoro!
ryan
ps
check out my youtube, ive got a couple new ones up
http://www.youtube.com/user/rynalias
bye!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
the beggining of the end pt 1 song kran
wow, so its been quite a while, since ive posted hasnt it???
sorry bout that!
its just that things have gotten pretty hectick, and in the last month or so ive been in korat, bangkok, kohn kaen, koh chang, chanta buri, chonburi, ban bueng, and udon thani!!
where to begin, alright, ill jump off from songkran!
songkran, is the biggest festival in thailand, and it takes place in april, one of the hottest monthes in thailand!
what is songkran, to put it very blunt, and mind numbingly simple, all you do is throw water at anyone, and everyone, and if you see any poosaus(its like the thai word for babes, you know foxes-shaa-wing) you rub white powder on thier faces(why, honestly? beats me.)
basically its the thai new year, and the water is like washing away the old year, anyways, thats my understanding of it, so i was going to korat andi i was gonna chill with my friends thier for a few days, then head back for the last few days of the festivalwith my host family, but some complications came up, and well... i found myself with out a place to stay, so i called around, and found that a few friends of mine were in bangkokfor a few days, and had a couch i could crash on, so i hopped on a bus and headed west to meet up with my friends!
so once i got there, dropped off my bags and everything, we went out to kao sarn road(backpacker haven) and pretty much for the next 2 days, bought supersoakers, and walked the streets of bangkok getting in water and baby powder fights with anyone we met!!
songkran is probably the greatest holiday on earth, anyone up for celebrating once i get back???
so after 2 days there i hopped back on the bus and went back to kk to meet up with my host family, as soon as i got there, me, 3 of my cousins and my host bro piled into the back of a pickup truck carrieng 2 garbage buckets ful of water and ice(makes it colder, duh)
and proceded to drive up and down the mainstreet of khon kaen throwing water from our buckets at paserbys motorcycle drivers ans other people in the backs of other pickups!
that night i went to a street concert with my host bro and cousins
this street was PACKED and it had stages all down the street with a plethora of bands playing, form hiphop, to metal, to screamo, to traditional! Everything and anything music wise was playing!
after we got home the cousins and i stayed up playing video games for a while(i havent played video games in ages!!) then we all crashed, and well to make a long story short, we did it all over again to mmoro!!
and that ladies and gentlemen is SONG KRAN!!!
again im very sorry i havent posted, but as you can see the title is the beggining of the end pt 1
so each night from here on out ill try to write about a major event that has happened!
these are gonna be a little short, but hey its what i got...
well 12 days left in thailand
see you tommoro!
ryan
ps
check out my youtube, ive got a couple new ones up
http://www.youtube.com/user/rynalias
bye!
sorry bout that!
its just that things have gotten pretty hectick, and in the last month or so ive been in korat, bangkok, kohn kaen, koh chang, chanta buri, chonburi, ban bueng, and udon thani!!
where to begin, alright, ill jump off from songkran!
songkran, is the biggest festival in thailand, and it takes place in april, one of the hottest monthes in thailand!
what is songkran, to put it very blunt, and mind numbingly simple, all you do is throw water at anyone, and everyone, and if you see any poosaus(its like the thai word for babes, you know foxes-shaa-wing) you rub white powder on thier faces(why, honestly? beats me.)
basically its the thai new year, and the water is like washing away the old year, anyways, thats my understanding of it, so i was going to korat andi i was gonna chill with my friends thier for a few days, then head back for the last few days of the festivalwith my host family, but some complications came up, and well... i found myself with out a place to stay, so i called around, and found that a few friends of mine were in bangkokfor a few days, and had a couch i could crash on, so i hopped on a bus and headed west to meet up with my friends!
so once i got there, dropped off my bags and everything, we went out to kao sarn road(backpacker haven) and pretty much for the next 2 days, bought supersoakers, and walked the streets of bangkok getting in water and baby powder fights with anyone we met!!
songkran is probably the greatest holiday on earth, anyone up for celebrating once i get back???
so after 2 days there i hopped back on the bus and went back to kk to meet up with my host family, as soon as i got there, me, 3 of my cousins and my host bro piled into the back of a pickup truck carrieng 2 garbage buckets ful of water and ice(makes it colder, duh)
and proceded to drive up and down the mainstreet of khon kaen throwing water from our buckets at paserbys motorcycle drivers ans other people in the backs of other pickups!
that night i went to a street concert with my host bro and cousins
this street was PACKED and it had stages all down the street with a plethora of bands playing, form hiphop, to metal, to screamo, to traditional! Everything and anything music wise was playing!
after we got home the cousins and i stayed up playing video games for a while(i havent played video games in ages!!) then we all crashed, and well to make a long story short, we did it all over again to mmoro!!
and that ladies and gentlemen is SONG KRAN!!!
again im very sorry i havent posted, but as you can see the title is the beggining of the end pt 1
so each night from here on out ill try to write about a major event that has happened!
these are gonna be a little short, but hey its what i got...
well 12 days left in thailand
see you tommoro!
ryan
ps
check out my youtube, ive got a couple new ones up
http://www.youtube.com/user/rynalias
bye!
Monday, April 7, 2008
rabies angels chiken fights ear piercing dancing elephants manholes nightmarkets cardgames and more,(thisis the longest post ive ever done!)
alright its been so long since ive posted, and for that im sorry, this one took me a while to write, and even longer to procrastinate about writing it!
so heres what happened
so i rode with my 2 moms to korat, where my mom got to meet my friends, after she said good bye, she headed out with my host mom to bangkok, leaving me.
you know once again.
to fend for myself.
but hey ill be fine!
where was i oh yeah, after making some runs to 7-11 and playing some football with my friends in the parkin lot we ate, then piled on the bus!
buss ride was pretty uneventful, just hung out listend to music(new jack johnson cd is awesome thanks aunt lisa!)
if i remember any thing monumental ill be sure to add it later ok?
anyways we rode all night(just to get back home) and arrived in this place called crabbe, at a resort that was about 1 k from the beach arrivng there zach and i got our room key and after we got settled we all walked to the beach and swam for a couple of hours, the beach was beautiful, and you could see these crazy lookintg islands out in the water, you know thier taller than they are wide like big cliffs risin up out of the water, we actauklly had the genius idea to swim out to one, and i swear that stupid rock was at least a mile offshore, also there were these little jelly fish thingies in the water and theyd sting the hell out of you if out swam into them!
well after like 20 min of swimmin we made it walked around a bit, then headed home, we ended up staying there something like 3 nights.
one of the days we wend snorkeling, we all got in to a boat, and it took us all over the place, to different snorkelling spots and islands, at this one island we were shoked to find out that clayton(brazil) my friend couldent swim, so we all gave him impromptu lesson, and well now he....
can doggy paddle-confidently
ok so this next part was probably the craziest funniest thing ever one of the stops on the bat tour thing was this sand bar connecting 2 islands so we got out and jumped in the water which is only like 4 feet deep and started doing chicken fights, you know were the guy holds a girl on his shoulders and the girls try to push the other girls off, cmon everyone knows that game, anyways we had a few bouts with all the guys playing(it was hillarious we started getting crowds of thai people cheering us on and everything),and they always turned into a grudge match between julian an megan and karley and me(karley its not your fault, meg just has man arms)
while we were resting some of us started talking with a group of old thai ladies, and one of them started to talk about the chicken fights, so we asked if they wanted to do one!!
my parter agreed in a heartbeat, but it took a while to convince the lady in blue to hop up on julians shoulders, but eventually she agreed!
so herejulian and i are with 2 50ish year old thai ladies on our shoulders charging at eachother in the ocean off the cast of thailand.
i cant belive this is my life.
after a glorious and hardcore battle my parter trumphantly threw the blue lady off of juliand shouders, and we both celebrated our vicotry...over a thai senior citizen.
besides fighting old ladies we snorkled alot, and let me tell you this water was gorgeeous!
it was a good 20 feet to the bottom, but you could see every thing!!
there were fish in all shapes and sizes and in colors that i didnt even know!
it was great, you could swim down to the bottom and chill with the fish, and feed them bread and suff like that!
sweet. what else
oh this was a crazy thing, so zach and i just got back from the beach, and we were goin to our room, when we found a cat, we hung outside with it, and i followed us into the room we played with it for a while, and when zach took a shower i fell asleep with the beastie on my chest.(alight im gonna take this time to call zach and me idiots, do you know why, well... were in an improvished country and we let some wild animal into our room and played with it, catch my drift?) so when i woke up i took a showere and when i got out i asked zach hey where did the cat go, he looks at me and lets out a few choice phrases and starts ranting how the "#@$!ing" thing bit him!
and we didn t think too much about it till later at dinner when zach was talking about it and one of the girls brought up the questiuon about rabies!
so half an hour zach me and holly and karely are in the er of the local hospital and zach and holly are gettin rabies shots.
moral of the story:
dont be an idiot and play with wild animals!
that noight was easter, and all the exchng students had a candy hunt kinda thing, but since the 4 of us were at the hospital we didnt see it, but they did saveus alot of candy for later!
so the next big thing we did was that we all got onto a boat and took it too this one island, alright are there any james bond fanns out there???
anyone remember the man with the golden gun?
rember the island with sacaramangas secret lair, with the cool island, the midget and "THE PLANE!!!"
yeah we went there...
like a dream come true!!!!(cause, well i love james bond)
it was fun we hung out for a while, along with evey other foriegner on earth!!
after that we went to this man made island that was just one huge market!
thats where i saw her..
the angel.
ill tell you about that in a min ok..
so we really just walked through this market checking things out and getting pictures with monkeys!
yeah they had these random dudes carrying around monkeys that you could take a pic with, we felt like farangs doin it cause it was a total tourist thing, but cmon... who can say no to an monkey?
alright dudes so heres the angel story-
so im just about to leave with maria and thers this door that separates the expensive market from the rest and im jsut about to walk throught it when-
i was graced by beautiful-no stunning, gogeous woma-no i dont belive she was a mere woman!!
an ANGEL was sent to me that day!
i opened the door and there she stood in all of her glory, my mouth dropps, i frezze and kinda get this dazed deer in the headlights look on my face- and she flashes me a coy smile that melts me!
then she kinda does this thing where she looks down, bobs her head catches eyes with me, and as i gaze into her sea grean eyes shewhispers, as if just to me
"hello"
and then i feel my heart being ripped out as maria shoves me through the door and her tour group pushes her the opposite way.
i gotta say though in those 2.5 seconds of bliss my life flashed forward and i saw myself in a whit victorian style house with a red door a tire swing in the yard, white picket fence, a dog and 2.5 kids!
so when im ranting this story to my jriends in the boat, julian jumps up grabbs me and goes"ryan. chances are you will never ever see this girl(angel) again, you are gonn a come with me right now and find out her name!"
"done."
so here we are racing through this floating market pushing past old germans and tour groups trying to find this mystery girl.
we searched high low, scouring the entire island, we even ran through a couple backyards(people livethere too) until we finnaly admitted defeeat(at this point we were pretty late for the boat)and started walking bach when out of the corner of my eye i catch a flash of baby blue, i look and i see herleading a group of older german dudes back to the boats, julian and i ythink fast and take stratiegig possitions in the expensive part of the market, i start to "buy shirts" and wait for her to come in,
closer...
closer...
closer...
NOW!
i turn to talk to her...
and she walks right past me!
we probably should have given up there, but no , not us!
i again straticely place myself and jjulian comes in an flanks her so she stops and since im rather smart and cunning, i ask
"hey you look alot like a friend of mine"-
"well im not"(ooooh that kinda stung)
julian and i ask her name, julian points to a name badge shes wearing, and she, in that voice that will haunt my dreams says
"hannah"
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
then we hear champ(one of our guides)yelling HURRY UP WERE LEAVING!!!
so we say goodbye and thats the last time i saw her...
hmmm what else happened, oh ok so we left that hotel, and packed our backpacks for 3 days, and left the rest of our stuff in the bus and we were told that we would be staying 2 nights in some national park, ok so i grab my guitar and bag and hop in the bus!
turns out that that this national park was an island... about 4 hrs off of the mainland!
we all scramble aboard a 2 decker boat and pass the time by playing guitar, watching the flying fish(very cool, first time ive ever seen them, they qwould fly right in front of the boat!) playing cards, you know just hangin out...
4hrs later we are at a pit stop, its an island nearby ours where we can snorkel and swim to the beach where theres these huge rope swings hanging from these ancient looking trees!
we d'd around there for a whle, as usual, the beach was perfect, water like glass, and fish aplenty(it was sweet, wheni i was heading back to the boat with my friends, we found ourself right above one of those huge swarms of massive silver kinda fish(you know like those videos you see on discovery channel right beore a seal comes and snatches em up?)i was able to dive like 10 feet down into the center of the swarm(whats a group of fish called? herd, a family, a gaggle? i dont know..)and just watch the 60+ fish swim all around me!
we got to the island in the afternoon, zach daniel andrew and i all calimed a choice bungalow 20yards from the shore, then all the dudes met down on the beah with the glorious scheme of build ing the biggest snd castle/man-fort on earth(a couple of the guys had already bought a huge 40 gallon bucket to help do it with) we soon found out that the bucket didnt work too well(we couldent flip it and get the sand out in one pice at all, so we refined our original idea so that we would be digging the biggest man-hole(ha get it) in thailand!
with the help from a metal pole, and 2 buckets the hole had grown a good 12 foot circle, and about 3-4 feet deep( we were actually makin a fire place, but the park ranger came and yelled at us(in thai of course) so we ditched that idea, but overall we had dug one huge triumphant bastard of a hole.
that night megan and i played guitar on the beach, we all went for a night swim, the guys succedded in buildin a good fire on the beah(castaway style too, you know with the trough that you blow air though!)and i learned how to play what could quite be one of the greatest card games on earth(its called euchere,appaerntly its a polish game... i dont know what thats supposed to mean, but it is. ill teach you guys when i get home, cause like i said, its the funnest card game ive ever played)
oh yeah also this island was INFESTED with hermit crabs and massive bats, which was way cool, cause if you looked close enough you could see tons of shells walkinthrough the shadows and if you looked up you could see these big batman symbols flying from tree to tree and screeching like crazy!
the next day we got up early, and piled on the boat and it started taking to different snorkelling and swimmin spots on different islands.
it was great, whenever weed get to another spot, weed dive, flip, jump or fall off the second story of the boat into the crystal clear water swim ashore, or chill in the water and watch the fish lazily swimming below us.
we ended up goin to some cool island where we would climb the gigantic rock/mountain andnd stand ontop and look out over the whle ocean(actually its a sea, but i forgrt the name of it, so ill just call it an ocean ok?)
we also had diving and flip contests of of this boat, it was hillarious diving 20 feet or so into the water!
we ate on the boat, and got a huge euchere tournament going- oh i almost forgot!!!
one of the stops was supposed to have sea turtles at it, but we never saw any, and while we were eating lunch, my frinds and i were playing cards on the first floor, wwhen all of a sudden we hear a thai dude yell
"Taow!!! Taow!!!" i look over and see him pointin to the right side of the boat, i wrack my the thai section of my brain for what the heck taow means, and i reamember a roung doughnut hole kinda food that vendores sell on the side of the road called kai taow(which means turtle eggs) and i realize that he saw a turlte!
i hear people jumpin over board, so i mask off the table and hop out the window and land in the water about 5 feet from a huge turtle, that looks over, sees all of us then casually starts to swim away(sure i had just dried off, and we totally had to star the card game over again, but it was so worth it! i swam with sea turtles off the coast of thailand!)
that night we basically did the same thing and chilled on the beach, we all played a game of beach football, and when it got dark we all went over to the manhole and hung out in there for a couple hours.
only lame thing was that we got moved to a tent inland, and away from the beach
where the mosquitos were the size of small birds!
im serious these were the biggest mosquitos ive ever seen-and i live in thailand!
after a night of bug bites(i seriously think i lost like a pound due to blood loss)
we all got onto the boat and settled in for the ride back to mainland, once we got back we hoopped in the bus and drove for the island of phuket.
as usual we listened to music played cards and slept, i really dont know why im telling you all that, it should be a given!
hmm what happended in phuket?
first night we went to this crazy lookout where you could see up and down the coast, later on we went out to some discotheques, and saw thai bands
alright so heres one major thing that happened, i mean major MAJOR!
we were all out at a mall one day, when me 3 guys and 3 girls ran into a accesory store, you know the thind that pierces ears........
http://youtube.com/user/rynalias
check out my youtube site for the videos of what happened!!!
cause im not gonna say any more on that subject!
(i added part one and 2 of the piercing, and a video of me and zach washing our clothes in the hotel bathtub)
where was i?
oh, so after that episode that night we went out to this thing called uhh..
something like phantasy thailand, in short it was kinda like a thai disneyland, that had the biggest buffet in thailand and had a kinda cirque du solei type show!
it was fun, we all got dressed up and ate at this massive buffet, it had eveything!
what we all devoured though were the french fries(good frenchfries in thailand are hard to come by)i even got in a pretty heated discusion whith yuki(shes from japan)about the best kind of sushi, she said the raw salmon, i say its the raw tuna, whatever, what does she know, its not like shes jappenese or anything, oh nevermind.
ok you know how some people in america say clowns scare them?
thats ok, sometimes they can be creepy, but for me its nothin to have a phobia over.
thats until i saw thai clowns.
these could b-words could quite possibly be the most horrifying things ive ever seen!
theyre super tall and dressed in these cultlike robes, have huge devil eyes(you could see thier balck souls) gargantuan hook noses, claws and terrifying rows of needle sharp teeth!
i couldent handle it.
no.
not. at. all.
ant then thed come at you and try to get HUGS like they were just mickey mouse, or tigger, and not this monstrosity from hell!!
i ran.
so.
about the show...
it was cool from my understanding it was the story of a boy who had a magical elepahant, and he traveled thailand righting wrongs until some bad dude took his girlfriend, then he and the magiacal elepant, along with an amry attacked pad dudes castle and tooke her back! the show had some pretty intese accrobaticts, with sword fights live elepahnts onstage cannonfire and people bunggee jumping off the celing
overall a pretty sweet night!
the next day we strted the long ride home, it took us a day and a half to get back, and we stayed in some random city in the south, cool thing though was we got cheese burgers and fries at our last hotel!
like i said before, good fries and burgers are hard to find(the other day i found out that 7-11s sell hot dogs with actual buns and mustard, IT BLEW MY MIND!!!)
that night jullian and i went out to see if we could find a dance club or place with music, but all we found was one of the biggest night markets wed ever been to, so we walked around there and picked up these thai versions of strawberry milkshakes before heading back to the 7 and eventually the hotel.
oh i forgot to tll you about how my how one night my heart broke!
i was walking around the city one night with my friends when all of a sudden and no warning at all my foot catches in a grate, and my left rainbow(you know my glorious leather indectuctable sandals ive had for like a year)snagges and i hear a rip.
i look dow and my heart breaks.
the middle part of my sandals shredded out of the leather!!!
i was so piossed! i ended up walkin 2 k barefoot back to the hotel, i mean these things have a garurentee on them, thier not supposed to rip!
anyways, i brought my old pair to thailand with me and once i get home im gonna try to send the broken pair in for new ones, i think they mighta ripped cause of the humidtiy here ahnd that might have damaged the glue or something like that.
nextday we just rode a couple hrs in the bus till we got to korat(oru breakawya point)
so we all said ou=r goodbyes(were all meeting again on the 2nd week of may)
all the people from khon kaen and 2 from udon piled into a pick up truck, only problem is thats eight people andbags nd a guitar in a tiny pickup, and we dont have time for 2 tripps, so i ended up perched precariously on the mountain of bags with 2 girls riding on the open tail gate as we fly down the city roads!
i love thailand.
well thats my trip, i got in late that night after a remakable uneventful bus ride, this last week was prety uneventful, other than zach came over for a couple days, we stayed with friends in khon kaen and watched movies but like i said nothin groundbreaking...
hmmm tommoro im going to korat for 4 days to visit my friend andrew, then im comeing back for song kran!
whats song kran?
youll find out once im finished with it!
well thats all that i have time for thanks again for reading, and since i can heres my youtube again
http://youtube.com/user/rynalias
ryan
so heres what happened
so i rode with my 2 moms to korat, where my mom got to meet my friends, after she said good bye, she headed out with my host mom to bangkok, leaving me.
you know once again.
to fend for myself.
but hey ill be fine!
where was i oh yeah, after making some runs to 7-11 and playing some football with my friends in the parkin lot we ate, then piled on the bus!
buss ride was pretty uneventful, just hung out listend to music(new jack johnson cd is awesome thanks aunt lisa!)
if i remember any thing monumental ill be sure to add it later ok?
anyways we rode all night(just to get back home) and arrived in this place called crabbe, at a resort that was about 1 k from the beach arrivng there zach and i got our room key and after we got settled we all walked to the beach and swam for a couple of hours, the beach was beautiful, and you could see these crazy lookintg islands out in the water, you know thier taller than they are wide like big cliffs risin up out of the water, we actauklly had the genius idea to swim out to one, and i swear that stupid rock was at least a mile offshore, also there were these little jelly fish thingies in the water and theyd sting the hell out of you if out swam into them!
well after like 20 min of swimmin we made it walked around a bit, then headed home, we ended up staying there something like 3 nights.
one of the days we wend snorkeling, we all got in to a boat, and it took us all over the place, to different snorkelling spots and islands, at this one island we were shoked to find out that clayton(brazil) my friend couldent swim, so we all gave him impromptu lesson, and well now he....
can doggy paddle-confidently
ok so this next part was probably the craziest funniest thing ever one of the stops on the bat tour thing was this sand bar connecting 2 islands so we got out and jumped in the water which is only like 4 feet deep and started doing chicken fights, you know were the guy holds a girl on his shoulders and the girls try to push the other girls off, cmon everyone knows that game, anyways we had a few bouts with all the guys playing(it was hillarious we started getting crowds of thai people cheering us on and everything),and they always turned into a grudge match between julian an megan and karley and me(karley its not your fault, meg just has man arms)
while we were resting some of us started talking with a group of old thai ladies, and one of them started to talk about the chicken fights, so we asked if they wanted to do one!!
my parter agreed in a heartbeat, but it took a while to convince the lady in blue to hop up on julians shoulders, but eventually she agreed!
so herejulian and i are with 2 50ish year old thai ladies on our shoulders charging at eachother in the ocean off the cast of thailand.
i cant belive this is my life.
after a glorious and hardcore battle my parter trumphantly threw the blue lady off of juliand shouders, and we both celebrated our vicotry...over a thai senior citizen.
besides fighting old ladies we snorkled alot, and let me tell you this water was gorgeeous!
it was a good 20 feet to the bottom, but you could see every thing!!
there were fish in all shapes and sizes and in colors that i didnt even know!
it was great, you could swim down to the bottom and chill with the fish, and feed them bread and suff like that!
sweet. what else
oh this was a crazy thing, so zach and i just got back from the beach, and we were goin to our room, when we found a cat, we hung outside with it, and i followed us into the room we played with it for a while, and when zach took a shower i fell asleep with the beastie on my chest.(alight im gonna take this time to call zach and me idiots, do you know why, well... were in an improvished country and we let some wild animal into our room and played with it, catch my drift?) so when i woke up i took a showere and when i got out i asked zach hey where did the cat go, he looks at me and lets out a few choice phrases and starts ranting how the "#@$!ing" thing bit him!
and we didn t think too much about it till later at dinner when zach was talking about it and one of the girls brought up the questiuon about rabies!
so half an hour zach me and holly and karely are in the er of the local hospital and zach and holly are gettin rabies shots.
moral of the story:
dont be an idiot and play with wild animals!
that noight was easter, and all the exchng students had a candy hunt kinda thing, but since the 4 of us were at the hospital we didnt see it, but they did saveus alot of candy for later!
so the next big thing we did was that we all got onto a boat and took it too this one island, alright are there any james bond fanns out there???
anyone remember the man with the golden gun?
rember the island with sacaramangas secret lair, with the cool island, the midget and "THE PLANE!!!"
yeah we went there...
like a dream come true!!!!(cause, well i love james bond)
it was fun we hung out for a while, along with evey other foriegner on earth!!
after that we went to this man made island that was just one huge market!
thats where i saw her..
the angel.
ill tell you about that in a min ok..
so we really just walked through this market checking things out and getting pictures with monkeys!
yeah they had these random dudes carrying around monkeys that you could take a pic with, we felt like farangs doin it cause it was a total tourist thing, but cmon... who can say no to an monkey?
alright dudes so heres the angel story-
so im just about to leave with maria and thers this door that separates the expensive market from the rest and im jsut about to walk throught it when-
i was graced by beautiful-no stunning, gogeous woma-no i dont belive she was a mere woman!!
an ANGEL was sent to me that day!
i opened the door and there she stood in all of her glory, my mouth dropps, i frezze and kinda get this dazed deer in the headlights look on my face- and she flashes me a coy smile that melts me!
then she kinda does this thing where she looks down, bobs her head catches eyes with me, and as i gaze into her sea grean eyes shewhispers, as if just to me
"hello"
and then i feel my heart being ripped out as maria shoves me through the door and her tour group pushes her the opposite way.
i gotta say though in those 2.5 seconds of bliss my life flashed forward and i saw myself in a whit victorian style house with a red door a tire swing in the yard, white picket fence, a dog and 2.5 kids!
so when im ranting this story to my jriends in the boat, julian jumps up grabbs me and goes"ryan. chances are you will never ever see this girl(angel) again, you are gonn a come with me right now and find out her name!"
"done."
so here we are racing through this floating market pushing past old germans and tour groups trying to find this mystery girl.
we searched high low, scouring the entire island, we even ran through a couple backyards(people livethere too) until we finnaly admitted defeeat(at this point we were pretty late for the boat)and started walking bach when out of the corner of my eye i catch a flash of baby blue, i look and i see herleading a group of older german dudes back to the boats, julian and i ythink fast and take stratiegig possitions in the expensive part of the market, i start to "buy shirts" and wait for her to come in,
closer...
closer...
closer...
NOW!
i turn to talk to her...
and she walks right past me!
we probably should have given up there, but no , not us!
i again straticely place myself and jjulian comes in an flanks her so she stops and since im rather smart and cunning, i ask
"hey you look alot like a friend of mine"-
"well im not"(ooooh that kinda stung)
julian and i ask her name, julian points to a name badge shes wearing, and she, in that voice that will haunt my dreams says
"hannah"
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
then we hear champ(one of our guides)yelling HURRY UP WERE LEAVING!!!
so we say goodbye and thats the last time i saw her...
hmmm what else happened, oh ok so we left that hotel, and packed our backpacks for 3 days, and left the rest of our stuff in the bus and we were told that we would be staying 2 nights in some national park, ok so i grab my guitar and bag and hop in the bus!
turns out that that this national park was an island... about 4 hrs off of the mainland!
we all scramble aboard a 2 decker boat and pass the time by playing guitar, watching the flying fish(very cool, first time ive ever seen them, they qwould fly right in front of the boat!) playing cards, you know just hangin out...
4hrs later we are at a pit stop, its an island nearby ours where we can snorkel and swim to the beach where theres these huge rope swings hanging from these ancient looking trees!
we d'd around there for a whle, as usual, the beach was perfect, water like glass, and fish aplenty(it was sweet, wheni i was heading back to the boat with my friends, we found ourself right above one of those huge swarms of massive silver kinda fish(you know like those videos you see on discovery channel right beore a seal comes and snatches em up?)i was able to dive like 10 feet down into the center of the swarm(whats a group of fish called? herd, a family, a gaggle? i dont know..)and just watch the 60+ fish swim all around me!
we got to the island in the afternoon, zach daniel andrew and i all calimed a choice bungalow 20yards from the shore, then all the dudes met down on the beah with the glorious scheme of build ing the biggest snd castle/man-fort on earth(a couple of the guys had already bought a huge 40 gallon bucket to help do it with) we soon found out that the bucket didnt work too well(we couldent flip it and get the sand out in one pice at all, so we refined our original idea so that we would be digging the biggest man-hole(ha get it) in thailand!
with the help from a metal pole, and 2 buckets the hole had grown a good 12 foot circle, and about 3-4 feet deep( we were actually makin a fire place, but the park ranger came and yelled at us(in thai of course) so we ditched that idea, but overall we had dug one huge triumphant bastard of a hole.
that night megan and i played guitar on the beach, we all went for a night swim, the guys succedded in buildin a good fire on the beah(castaway style too, you know with the trough that you blow air though!)and i learned how to play what could quite be one of the greatest card games on earth(its called euchere,appaerntly its a polish game... i dont know what thats supposed to mean, but it is. ill teach you guys when i get home, cause like i said, its the funnest card game ive ever played)
oh yeah also this island was INFESTED with hermit crabs and massive bats, which was way cool, cause if you looked close enough you could see tons of shells walkinthrough the shadows and if you looked up you could see these big batman symbols flying from tree to tree and screeching like crazy!
the next day we got up early, and piled on the boat and it started taking to different snorkelling and swimmin spots on different islands.
it was great, whenever weed get to another spot, weed dive, flip, jump or fall off the second story of the boat into the crystal clear water swim ashore, or chill in the water and watch the fish lazily swimming below us.
we ended up goin to some cool island where we would climb the gigantic rock/mountain andnd stand ontop and look out over the whle ocean(actually its a sea, but i forgrt the name of it, so ill just call it an ocean ok?)
we also had diving and flip contests of of this boat, it was hillarious diving 20 feet or so into the water!
we ate on the boat, and got a huge euchere tournament going- oh i almost forgot!!!
one of the stops was supposed to have sea turtles at it, but we never saw any, and while we were eating lunch, my frinds and i were playing cards on the first floor, wwhen all of a sudden we hear a thai dude yell
"Taow!!! Taow!!!" i look over and see him pointin to the right side of the boat, i wrack my the thai section of my brain for what the heck taow means, and i reamember a roung doughnut hole kinda food that vendores sell on the side of the road called kai taow(which means turtle eggs) and i realize that he saw a turlte!
i hear people jumpin over board, so i mask off the table and hop out the window and land in the water about 5 feet from a huge turtle, that looks over, sees all of us then casually starts to swim away(sure i had just dried off, and we totally had to star the card game over again, but it was so worth it! i swam with sea turtles off the coast of thailand!)
that night we basically did the same thing and chilled on the beach, we all played a game of beach football, and when it got dark we all went over to the manhole and hung out in there for a couple hours.
only lame thing was that we got moved to a tent inland, and away from the beach
where the mosquitos were the size of small birds!
im serious these were the biggest mosquitos ive ever seen-and i live in thailand!
after a night of bug bites(i seriously think i lost like a pound due to blood loss)
we all got onto the boat and settled in for the ride back to mainland, once we got back we hoopped in the bus and drove for the island of phuket.
as usual we listened to music played cards and slept, i really dont know why im telling you all that, it should be a given!
hmm what happended in phuket?
first night we went to this crazy lookout where you could see up and down the coast, later on we went out to some discotheques, and saw thai bands
alright so heres one major thing that happened, i mean major MAJOR!
we were all out at a mall one day, when me 3 guys and 3 girls ran into a accesory store, you know the thind that pierces ears........
http://youtube.com/user/rynalias
check out my youtube site for the videos of what happened!!!
cause im not gonna say any more on that subject!
(i added part one and 2 of the piercing, and a video of me and zach washing our clothes in the hotel bathtub)
where was i?
oh, so after that episode that night we went out to this thing called uhh..
something like phantasy thailand, in short it was kinda like a thai disneyland, that had the biggest buffet in thailand and had a kinda cirque du solei type show!
it was fun, we all got dressed up and ate at this massive buffet, it had eveything!
what we all devoured though were the french fries(good frenchfries in thailand are hard to come by)i even got in a pretty heated discusion whith yuki(shes from japan)about the best kind of sushi, she said the raw salmon, i say its the raw tuna, whatever, what does she know, its not like shes jappenese or anything, oh nevermind.
ok you know how some people in america say clowns scare them?
thats ok, sometimes they can be creepy, but for me its nothin to have a phobia over.
thats until i saw thai clowns.
these could b-words could quite possibly be the most horrifying things ive ever seen!
theyre super tall and dressed in these cultlike robes, have huge devil eyes(you could see thier balck souls) gargantuan hook noses, claws and terrifying rows of needle sharp teeth!
i couldent handle it.
no.
not. at. all.
ant then thed come at you and try to get HUGS like they were just mickey mouse, or tigger, and not this monstrosity from hell!!
i ran.
so.
about the show...
it was cool from my understanding it was the story of a boy who had a magical elepahant, and he traveled thailand righting wrongs until some bad dude took his girlfriend, then he and the magiacal elepant, along with an amry attacked pad dudes castle and tooke her back! the show had some pretty intese accrobaticts, with sword fights live elepahnts onstage cannonfire and people bunggee jumping off the celing
overall a pretty sweet night!
the next day we strted the long ride home, it took us a day and a half to get back, and we stayed in some random city in the south, cool thing though was we got cheese burgers and fries at our last hotel!
like i said before, good fries and burgers are hard to find(the other day i found out that 7-11s sell hot dogs with actual buns and mustard, IT BLEW MY MIND!!!)
that night jullian and i went out to see if we could find a dance club or place with music, but all we found was one of the biggest night markets wed ever been to, so we walked around there and picked up these thai versions of strawberry milkshakes before heading back to the 7 and eventually the hotel.
oh i forgot to tll you about how my how one night my heart broke!
i was walking around the city one night with my friends when all of a sudden and no warning at all my foot catches in a grate, and my left rainbow(you know my glorious leather indectuctable sandals ive had for like a year)snagges and i hear a rip.
i look dow and my heart breaks.
the middle part of my sandals shredded out of the leather!!!
i was so piossed! i ended up walkin 2 k barefoot back to the hotel, i mean these things have a garurentee on them, thier not supposed to rip!
anyways, i brought my old pair to thailand with me and once i get home im gonna try to send the broken pair in for new ones, i think they mighta ripped cause of the humidtiy here ahnd that might have damaged the glue or something like that.
nextday we just rode a couple hrs in the bus till we got to korat(oru breakawya point)
so we all said ou=r goodbyes(were all meeting again on the 2nd week of may)
all the people from khon kaen and 2 from udon piled into a pick up truck, only problem is thats eight people andbags nd a guitar in a tiny pickup, and we dont have time for 2 tripps, so i ended up perched precariously on the mountain of bags with 2 girls riding on the open tail gate as we fly down the city roads!
i love thailand.
well thats my trip, i got in late that night after a remakable uneventful bus ride, this last week was prety uneventful, other than zach came over for a couple days, we stayed with friends in khon kaen and watched movies but like i said nothin groundbreaking...
hmmm tommoro im going to korat for 4 days to visit my friend andrew, then im comeing back for song kran!
whats song kran?
youll find out once im finished with it!
well thats all that i have time for thanks again for reading, and since i can heres my youtube again
http://youtube.com/user/rynalias
ryan
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Mom in Thailand
I know you all have been anxiously awaiting my Blog, but it has taken me this long to figure out how to sign in to Ryan's Blog. So, here it is:
I arrived in Thailand on the 15th of March at 1:45 am, now keep in mind that I left Sacramento on the 13th. With time zones and all, it took that long to get there. I flew in to Tapei and made a quick dash over to the waiting airplane to get me over to Thailand. I was greeted by Ryan and it was an emotional reunion. Oh, how I've missed him. I greeted his family, his mom, dad, brother and grandparents all met me at the airport. We all piled in the car along with my luggage and we spent the night at a nearby hotel. Ryan & I stayed up past 4:00 am just talking and letting him open cards and gifts; he said it felt like Christmas!
The next morning we had breakfast at the hotel and we headed north to where he lives. We visited the King's palace (the King from 100 years ago), it was quite beautiful. And after that we stopped along the way to ride an elephant! What an experience that was, and it certaintly wasn't like riding a horse. We had many laughs along the way. While we were there, we also fed a Bengal tiger some milk...ok, a young Bengal tiger!
The next day Ryan & I caught a songtail (bus) to Khon Kaen where me met with other exchange students. We had lunch, played Guitar Hero and went bowling. Oh, we also went to Swensens and we all shared an Earthquake...all you Swensens fans will know what that is! We then hung around for the night market and got to shop around there for a while. That's where they have all the interesting fried bugs that you can eat. Did I? Oh no!
On Monday, we went to see Ryan's great-grandma. She gave me a bracelet which wished me happiness, richness and good health. So, if my bracelet breaks, does that mean they won't come true? Yikes!
We also went to see the property of trees that Ryan's grandparents own. They have Eucalyptus, Teak, Rubber and Coconut trees. We had a nice drive out to their tree farms.
I met Dr. Urot...he's the doctor that Ryan had shadowed at the hospital. Very nice gentleman and very young too. From there, I was introduced to Ryan's 2nd host parents.
We ventured back down to Khon Kaen and shopped at the mall, went to a temple with Meagan and Maria (climbed 9 stories) and we had Thai style iced tead when we finished at the temple.
That night we had a nice dinner with Ryan's 2nd host parents and their son. We headed to bed because we had an early morning trip planned. Ryan & I were going camping up at Phuk Ra Deung (National Park), so we got up at 4:15 to head over to the mountain.
So, it's Tues and we hiked the mountain. I believe it's 4,500 feet high and it took us 6 hours to climb it. It was hot and probably the most intense hike I have ever done, but we made it! We rented a tent, blankets and pillows so we didn't need to carry that stuff with us. We didn't have to carry our luggage either, a porter carried it to the top of the hill for us, those guys are animals!! Imagine carrying that stuff to the top, we barely made it ourselves!
We woke the next morning at 4:30 to watch the sunrise. It was quite incredible. We came back and crashed (slept) for a few hours to prepare ourselves for the next hike. We walked about 5 miles to this one location to watch the sunset but the weather was changing quickly and they didn't think there would be a sunset, so we headed back...another 5 miles. We ended up seeing a beautiful sunset on our way home and arrived back at the camp in the dark. We enjoyed a nice Pad Thai dinner and we headed to bed...only to be awakened in the night by either a deer or a boar that had a bag stuck on it's head! It was too dark to figure out what animal it was...we did see both animals earlier in the evening. Ask Ryan which one he thought it was!
Thursday morning we headed down the hill after we left our luggage with a porter to carry it down. A surprise to us was the fact that Ryan's host grandparents met us part way up the hill (the first rest stop up the hill). We walked down with them and had lunch with them and Tuk. After questioning what type of fish was in my soup, Tuk said it was Snake Fish...go figure! I'm not inquiring any more after that!
We went in to town to pick up a guitar case for Ryan and some things he needed for his Rotary trip to Phuket...that's pronounced Poo Ket by the way! We had soup for dinner that Atom (brother) picked up at the local restaurant, very good by the way!
Friday morning we were up early to visit with Ryan's possible 3rd host mom. She owns a stationery store just down the street from where they live. Ryan's 2nd host mom met us and we all had lunch together. We ran a few errands and said good bye to great-grandma and we headed to Korat to take Ryan to the location where all the exchange students were meeting to go on their trip to Phuket. Ryan and I had a tearful good-bye...ok, I had the tearful good-bye. It was hard to say good-bye again, but we'll see him in June!
We went to KFC for dinner, yes, Kentucky Fried Chicken! The only thing I can say is that the chickens aren't as fat in Thailand as they are at home. It was still good, but not fat on the meat! After dinner, we pulled up to the hotel in Bangkok called "Lam Park." Tuk, Atom & I shared a room.
The next morning we were up at 6:00 am to beat the morning traffic. We dressed up to go to the Imperial Palace, but found out that Atom & I couldn't go in to see the King's sister, because our clothes weren't black...only black clothing was allowed.
Oh, how I wish I was back in shorts and sandals! We still saw the rest of the palace grounds which was nice.
Tuk surprised me with a boat ride which I enjoyed. You ought to see these long boats, they are fast and the engine in them is huge, with a long rudder and propeller. We climbed to the top of a temple "Temple of Dawn" which actually gave a nice view of Bangkok. Afterward we had a nice lunch and then went to another temple.
We took Atom back to the hotel and Tuk, her friend and I went for a massage (Thai massage). Pretty relaxing especially after having hiked the mountain...I didn't realize how sore I was from coming down the mountain! We picked up her friends daughter and we all had a nice dinner at the mall at MK restaurant (suki soup).
Well, it's Sunday and it's my last day. We were up at 7:00 to go to the airport by 8:30. I got there in plenty of time for my 12:30 flight. We said good bye and it was difficult to say good bye to Tuk, she was such a wonderful hostess and I told her she has been a good mom to Ryan...I think we were both crying by then! So, I turned to go on my flight with Ryan's guitar in one hand and my laptop in the other.
It was a good flight home, long, but good. I left on Easter and came home on Easter.
I was greeted by Cody, Charlotte (our exchange student from France) and my loving husband Dennis. It was so good to be home, but it was also such a wonderful trip.
I've been filled with many delightful memories of sharing time with my son in Thailand.
I love you Ryan, give my best to your family in Thailand (parents, brother, grandparents, great-grandma and friends).Now it's his turn to fill you in on his trip to Phuket. I'm looking forward to hearing about it also.
Laurie (Mae Ma Li)
I arrived in Thailand on the 15th of March at 1:45 am, now keep in mind that I left Sacramento on the 13th. With time zones and all, it took that long to get there. I flew in to Tapei and made a quick dash over to the waiting airplane to get me over to Thailand. I was greeted by Ryan and it was an emotional reunion. Oh, how I've missed him. I greeted his family, his mom, dad, brother and grandparents all met me at the airport. We all piled in the car along with my luggage and we spent the night at a nearby hotel. Ryan & I stayed up past 4:00 am just talking and letting him open cards and gifts; he said it felt like Christmas!
The next morning we had breakfast at the hotel and we headed north to where he lives. We visited the King's palace (the King from 100 years ago), it was quite beautiful. And after that we stopped along the way to ride an elephant! What an experience that was, and it certaintly wasn't like riding a horse. We had many laughs along the way. While we were there, we also fed a Bengal tiger some milk...ok, a young Bengal tiger!
The next day Ryan & I caught a songtail (bus) to Khon Kaen where me met with other exchange students. We had lunch, played Guitar Hero and went bowling. Oh, we also went to Swensens and we all shared an Earthquake...all you Swensens fans will know what that is! We then hung around for the night market and got to shop around there for a while. That's where they have all the interesting fried bugs that you can eat. Did I? Oh no!
On Monday, we went to see Ryan's great-grandma. She gave me a bracelet which wished me happiness, richness and good health. So, if my bracelet breaks, does that mean they won't come true? Yikes!
We also went to see the property of trees that Ryan's grandparents own. They have Eucalyptus, Teak, Rubber and Coconut trees. We had a nice drive out to their tree farms.
I met Dr. Urot...he's the doctor that Ryan had shadowed at the hospital. Very nice gentleman and very young too. From there, I was introduced to Ryan's 2nd host parents.
We ventured back down to Khon Kaen and shopped at the mall, went to a temple with Meagan and Maria (climbed 9 stories) and we had Thai style iced tead when we finished at the temple.
That night we had a nice dinner with Ryan's 2nd host parents and their son. We headed to bed because we had an early morning trip planned. Ryan & I were going camping up at Phuk Ra Deung (National Park), so we got up at 4:15 to head over to the mountain.
So, it's Tues and we hiked the mountain. I believe it's 4,500 feet high and it took us 6 hours to climb it. It was hot and probably the most intense hike I have ever done, but we made it! We rented a tent, blankets and pillows so we didn't need to carry that stuff with us. We didn't have to carry our luggage either, a porter carried it to the top of the hill for us, those guys are animals!! Imagine carrying that stuff to the top, we barely made it ourselves!
We woke the next morning at 4:30 to watch the sunrise. It was quite incredible. We came back and crashed (slept) for a few hours to prepare ourselves for the next hike. We walked about 5 miles to this one location to watch the sunset but the weather was changing quickly and they didn't think there would be a sunset, so we headed back...another 5 miles. We ended up seeing a beautiful sunset on our way home and arrived back at the camp in the dark. We enjoyed a nice Pad Thai dinner and we headed to bed...only to be awakened in the night by either a deer or a boar that had a bag stuck on it's head! It was too dark to figure out what animal it was...we did see both animals earlier in the evening. Ask Ryan which one he thought it was!
Thursday morning we headed down the hill after we left our luggage with a porter to carry it down. A surprise to us was the fact that Ryan's host grandparents met us part way up the hill (the first rest stop up the hill). We walked down with them and had lunch with them and Tuk. After questioning what type of fish was in my soup, Tuk said it was Snake Fish...go figure! I'm not inquiring any more after that!
We went in to town to pick up a guitar case for Ryan and some things he needed for his Rotary trip to Phuket...that's pronounced Poo Ket by the way! We had soup for dinner that Atom (brother) picked up at the local restaurant, very good by the way!
Friday morning we were up early to visit with Ryan's possible 3rd host mom. She owns a stationery store just down the street from where they live. Ryan's 2nd host mom met us and we all had lunch together. We ran a few errands and said good bye to great-grandma and we headed to Korat to take Ryan to the location where all the exchange students were meeting to go on their trip to Phuket. Ryan and I had a tearful good-bye...ok, I had the tearful good-bye. It was hard to say good-bye again, but we'll see him in June!
We went to KFC for dinner, yes, Kentucky Fried Chicken! The only thing I can say is that the chickens aren't as fat in Thailand as they are at home. It was still good, but not fat on the meat! After dinner, we pulled up to the hotel in Bangkok called "Lam Park." Tuk, Atom & I shared a room.
The next morning we were up at 6:00 am to beat the morning traffic. We dressed up to go to the Imperial Palace, but found out that Atom & I couldn't go in to see the King's sister, because our clothes weren't black...only black clothing was allowed.
Oh, how I wish I was back in shorts and sandals! We still saw the rest of the palace grounds which was nice.
Tuk surprised me with a boat ride which I enjoyed. You ought to see these long boats, they are fast and the engine in them is huge, with a long rudder and propeller. We climbed to the top of a temple "Temple of Dawn" which actually gave a nice view of Bangkok. Afterward we had a nice lunch and then went to another temple.
We took Atom back to the hotel and Tuk, her friend and I went for a massage (Thai massage). Pretty relaxing especially after having hiked the mountain...I didn't realize how sore I was from coming down the mountain! We picked up her friends daughter and we all had a nice dinner at the mall at MK restaurant (suki soup).
Well, it's Sunday and it's my last day. We were up at 7:00 to go to the airport by 8:30. I got there in plenty of time for my 12:30 flight. We said good bye and it was difficult to say good bye to Tuk, she was such a wonderful hostess and I told her she has been a good mom to Ryan...I think we were both crying by then! So, I turned to go on my flight with Ryan's guitar in one hand and my laptop in the other.
It was a good flight home, long, but good. I left on Easter and came home on Easter.
I was greeted by Cody, Charlotte (our exchange student from France) and my loving husband Dennis. It was so good to be home, but it was also such a wonderful trip.
I've been filled with many delightful memories of sharing time with my son in Thailand.
I love you Ryan, give my best to your family in Thailand (parents, brother, grandparents, great-grandma and friends).Now it's his turn to fill you in on his trip to Phuket. I'm looking forward to hearing about it also.
Laurie (Mae Ma Li)
Sunday, March 16, 2008
a short one, my trip to p/u my mom!
alright so as you kno2 my moms conig to thailand, early this week my h mom said that weed leave 2 days early, cause my host grand parents had to go to a meeting in bkk, so the great idea was that we would leave a midnight, and pack the car with both my host parents, my host bro, both my host grand parents, and me, +all our luggage!!
anyways we head out(our tires signifantly lowr than when we started)
alright so let me give you the ld on my host grand parents,
grandma
i don really know her name, i just call her grandma, the lady used to be an english teacher like 15 years ago, and speaks to me in english all the time, but the thing is that her thai accent is sooo bad sometimes that its actually easier for me to understand her when she peaks thai!
(sidenote, why yes, my thai has improved very much over these past couple weeks, most nights ill just sit in the front yard with mae tuk, and weel talk in thai!
its cool cause i really get to build my vocab with her!)
ok
granpa.
i just call him grandpa, cause i don actually know his name either!
one word kinda sums this dude up...
creepy
and i know its just cause hes an old dude, and its probly only wierd cause hes not actually related to me, but this guy is handsy...
alright ill show you
put your hand over your belly button.
move you hand to the left(yours not mine)about 4 inches
raise it another 3
thats exactly the place he goes for whenever he meats me, he just kind puts his hand there, says hi and doesnt let go till i kinda push him away, whatever
also every thing this guy says sounds like the thai word for butter, i really dont have an explaination, either he is alweays askin me if i want butter, if i feel like butter, if i want to see butter, or go to butter.
or my thai ist axs good as i think it is...
im leanin to the first.
anyways the main thing that happened is that we stayed the night in pataya, which i have to tell you guys, is probably the sketchyest place ive ever been.
people call it "the adult disneyland"
this place was like vegas in an improvished part of the country, stripclubs and "massage parlors" everywher!
talk about awkward....
anyways first night we drove for roughly an hour trying to find some resuraunt, i was half a sec away from snaggin the wheel and pullin into the next 7-11 that i saw when we stopped at this place that looked like it had half of the monteray bay aquarium in it!
there were thes bath tub sized...uh...tubs with just about every sized and specie of crustacion in them, all in all ti was a good dinner, even though ny host mom kept tring to make me eat shrimp brains(they look like a paste, that i can only describe as... rohrange
gross.
next day we went to the ocean to swim, and just like the city the beach was discusting!
trash eveywhere you know?
oh well, tommoro im headin out for phuket, where the water is like glass!!!
htat night we left to pickup my mom at the airoport, i was so excited that i ended up waiting at the wrong gate for about an hour, only to turn around and see my mom runnin twords me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well thats where i leave you, you see my moms gonna write the next blog tellin bout our travels cause like i said ill be in phuket for the next 9 days!
peace, im out!
ryan
anyways we head out(our tires signifantly lowr than when we started)
alright so let me give you the ld on my host grand parents,
grandma
i don really know her name, i just call her grandma, the lady used to be an english teacher like 15 years ago, and speaks to me in english all the time, but the thing is that her thai accent is sooo bad sometimes that its actually easier for me to understand her when she peaks thai!
(sidenote, why yes, my thai has improved very much over these past couple weeks, most nights ill just sit in the front yard with mae tuk, and weel talk in thai!
its cool cause i really get to build my vocab with her!)
ok
granpa.
i just call him grandpa, cause i don actually know his name either!
one word kinda sums this dude up...
creepy
and i know its just cause hes an old dude, and its probly only wierd cause hes not actually related to me, but this guy is handsy...
alright ill show you
put your hand over your belly button.
move you hand to the left(yours not mine)about 4 inches
raise it another 3
thats exactly the place he goes for whenever he meats me, he just kind puts his hand there, says hi and doesnt let go till i kinda push him away, whatever
also every thing this guy says sounds like the thai word for butter, i really dont have an explaination, either he is alweays askin me if i want butter, if i feel like butter, if i want to see butter, or go to butter.
or my thai ist axs good as i think it is...
im leanin to the first.
anyways the main thing that happened is that we stayed the night in pataya, which i have to tell you guys, is probably the sketchyest place ive ever been.
people call it "the adult disneyland"
this place was like vegas in an improvished part of the country, stripclubs and "massage parlors" everywher!
talk about awkward....
anyways first night we drove for roughly an hour trying to find some resuraunt, i was half a sec away from snaggin the wheel and pullin into the next 7-11 that i saw when we stopped at this place that looked like it had half of the monteray bay aquarium in it!
there were thes bath tub sized...uh...tubs with just about every sized and specie of crustacion in them, all in all ti was a good dinner, even though ny host mom kept tring to make me eat shrimp brains(they look like a paste, that i can only describe as... rohrange
gross.
next day we went to the ocean to swim, and just like the city the beach was discusting!
trash eveywhere you know?
oh well, tommoro im headin out for phuket, where the water is like glass!!!
htat night we left to pickup my mom at the airoport, i was so excited that i ended up waiting at the wrong gate for about an hour, only to turn around and see my mom runnin twords me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well thats where i leave you, you see my moms gonna write the next blog tellin bout our travels cause like i said ill be in phuket for the next 9 days!
peace, im out!
ryan
Sunday, March 9, 2008
t minus 3 days till mae ma meung thai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alright its been a while since i piosted, and i really dont remember th EXACT ordwer that things occurred, so ill just spill them out when i think of them kay?
hmm so earlier last week, may friend joelle, came to khon kaen from ubon to hang out for a couple of days, and zach came to hang out at my house, so one day all the kk exchang students came to namphong, and we just hung out in a resturaunt listening to music and eating all day, the resturaunt is pretty cool, the booth that you eat in, is a table thats in a sort of hut thing, thats on stilts above the water, and when you want to order something you bang on this metal pipe and someoohne comes out to meat you, we must have stayed there for a couple hrs or so!
over the next couple of days zach and i would go into kk and hang out with the girls, shop at the night market, and watch movies, i think the best ones were kill bill vol 1 2
but hey thats just me you know!
hmm i also got to go visit the doctor onwed and thursday!
it was kinda awkard, cause when i came to eat lunch with him on wednestady, he forgot to mention that he would be in a meeting, so i show up and hes all, comeon in ryan, here lets get you some food while all of the other people in the meeting stare at you!
later on he was doin an ultra sound on a man, and when he finnished, was suddenly possesed by the urge to persorm one on me, DESPITE all of my protests!
apparently except for my surgerys my insides look just fine!
after that awkward ordeal, i went out to the er with the doc, and found a man that had been in a motor cycle accident, and a pice of rebar was shoved into his heel, so the doctor asked me if id like to do the stiches, uh duh...
so i was able to do the three stiches to close the puncture on his heel the guy ws totalyy cool about it too, im pretty sure he had something to do with the temples, cause he had all these cool monk tatoos on his back and chest!
what else,
oh we got a cat!
yeah, its a little grey animal that has way too many sharp things at its disposal, tuk asked me what i wanted to name it, i told her ma ahan, which litterally means, dog food
she laughed, but decided she wanted to name her ryan
yep
ryan, cause when i go home there will still be a ryan at the house!
so far ryan has clawed me, bit me and peed on me!
(i was on the phone witha friend when it peed on me, i yelled some choice words, and megan freaked out for a sec)
well last friday i went to a confrence with all of the YES(youth exchange students)
i drove down with all three of my host parents atom and some other rotarians
the thing that sucked anbout the confrence was that we all had to wear our school uniforms, which ment shoes and socks for me, that was actually kinda the joke for all of us, cause last time we were all togetr and we were being told about the rules for the confrence, one of the leaders asked if we had any questions, i asked if we had to wear socks....
bad move ryan..
to this day we dont know why, but at that question siri EXPLODED on me!!!!!!!
yell ing i shopuld allways wear socks(and if you guys know me, socks are my least favorite article of clothing) and how im a bad YES if im not wearing them and got publicly chewed out by this dude for the next couple min. about the atrocities of my sans-sock lifestyle!
anywqays we all made sure to wear our socks and no one died!
so the confrence was sweet i got to meet all of my friends again, and when we had nothin to do wed just chill in someones room, play guitar, or skateboard(zach brought his from america, and started to teach me how to do tricks, i managed to land some, but my shins got hacked up...
oh so like i said in an earlier blog i was supposed to play guitar, but when i got there i found out megan brought her guitar we dicided it would we way cooller to get the band together again, so i taught her a song that i had written, nad vice versa and agreed to back eachother up on singin
we were so pumped id play my song first, cause well her song kinda blew mine out of the water, immean half the song was written in thai!
after a whole day of practicing and waiting for our turn to go up(oh some of my other freinds rotary clubs made them show off thai danceing! they did great and they were all decked out in traditional thai costumes and HEAVY makeup!
we did our firlst song, which was.... decent, her mics werent working, and my guitar was turned on full balst,but we had a fun time cause all of our friends had crowded the stage and were cheering us on
once we finished we were just about to start her song when the mc goes hey you only play one song!
even though we already told him and everybody weed be doing two, but he kicked us offstage, and that was all that we played that night, we were all really bummed, but hey well meet again in like 10 days, so weel how off her song then!
oh one thing about the confrence was freaking that dude from oklahoma was there, you know the guy who thinks im from"cali"
(shudder..)
it was pretty funny, cause joelle and i have voiced our opinions about the use of the word "cali"
(shudder...)
and every time he d=saw me he would inquire " what up cali?"
and evry time id have to restrain my self and reply through gritted teeth
"nothin much"
c'mon!!
who in thier right mind calls california cali???
alright
settling down.....
after the first night my rotary entourage tok off, and left me to fend for myself, so i got a ride home with this old guy who was goin to kk, and i swear i was in this van for 5 hrs with yoda, nice guy, but he could have been argualbly the single greatest jedi in history!
first off this guy was Short! i mean very SHORT somewhere in the ball park of 5 foot
secondly he had ll this kinda whispy innapropriate facial hair
an lastly every couple min or so heed maked these little grunting noises, like he was pondering the mysteries of the force or something like that
anyways it made for an entertaining car ride!
in other news conditions have greatly improved with my host bro, were getting alon real well, i actually founbd a book of his called AMERICAN SLANG, its really funny when he practices on me cause he dropps his coice really low an wiil in a super serious over innuniated voice ask
"whats the plan... Stan???"
so im tryin to help him there! its super funny though
hmmm
mae tuk is good too, she and i are speakin in thai alot more, its really fun hangin out with her!
the other night we stayed up and wathced horror movies on tv!
ummm
my host dfad is still a jerk...
dude wont say a word to me, but i guess i shouldent comlain, cause i am gettin a room to stay in!
welll like i said in the tilte ive only ogt like 3 days left till my mom comes to thailand, so next blog will have our adventures in it!!!
til then!!
ryan
hmm so earlier last week, may friend joelle, came to khon kaen from ubon to hang out for a couple of days, and zach came to hang out at my house, so one day all the kk exchang students came to namphong, and we just hung out in a resturaunt listening to music and eating all day, the resturaunt is pretty cool, the booth that you eat in, is a table thats in a sort of hut thing, thats on stilts above the water, and when you want to order something you bang on this metal pipe and someoohne comes out to meat you, we must have stayed there for a couple hrs or so!
over the next couple of days zach and i would go into kk and hang out with the girls, shop at the night market, and watch movies, i think the best ones were kill bill vol 1 2
but hey thats just me you know!
hmm i also got to go visit the doctor onwed and thursday!
it was kinda awkard, cause when i came to eat lunch with him on wednestady, he forgot to mention that he would be in a meeting, so i show up and hes all, comeon in ryan, here lets get you some food while all of the other people in the meeting stare at you!
later on he was doin an ultra sound on a man, and when he finnished, was suddenly possesed by the urge to persorm one on me, DESPITE all of my protests!
apparently except for my surgerys my insides look just fine!
after that awkward ordeal, i went out to the er with the doc, and found a man that had been in a motor cycle accident, and a pice of rebar was shoved into his heel, so the doctor asked me if id like to do the stiches, uh duh...
so i was able to do the three stiches to close the puncture on his heel the guy ws totalyy cool about it too, im pretty sure he had something to do with the temples, cause he had all these cool monk tatoos on his back and chest!
what else,
oh we got a cat!
yeah, its a little grey animal that has way too many sharp things at its disposal, tuk asked me what i wanted to name it, i told her ma ahan, which litterally means, dog food
she laughed, but decided she wanted to name her ryan
yep
ryan, cause when i go home there will still be a ryan at the house!
so far ryan has clawed me, bit me and peed on me!
(i was on the phone witha friend when it peed on me, i yelled some choice words, and megan freaked out for a sec)
well last friday i went to a confrence with all of the YES(youth exchange students)
i drove down with all three of my host parents atom and some other rotarians
the thing that sucked anbout the confrence was that we all had to wear our school uniforms, which ment shoes and socks for me, that was actually kinda the joke for all of us, cause last time we were all togetr and we were being told about the rules for the confrence, one of the leaders asked if we had any questions, i asked if we had to wear socks....
bad move ryan..
to this day we dont know why, but at that question siri EXPLODED on me!!!!!!!
yell ing i shopuld allways wear socks(and if you guys know me, socks are my least favorite article of clothing) and how im a bad YES if im not wearing them and got publicly chewed out by this dude for the next couple min. about the atrocities of my sans-sock lifestyle!
anywqays we all made sure to wear our socks and no one died!
so the confrence was sweet i got to meet all of my friends again, and when we had nothin to do wed just chill in someones room, play guitar, or skateboard(zach brought his from america, and started to teach me how to do tricks, i managed to land some, but my shins got hacked up...
oh so like i said in an earlier blog i was supposed to play guitar, but when i got there i found out megan brought her guitar we dicided it would we way cooller to get the band together again, so i taught her a song that i had written, nad vice versa and agreed to back eachother up on singin
we were so pumped id play my song first, cause well her song kinda blew mine out of the water, immean half the song was written in thai!
after a whole day of practicing and waiting for our turn to go up(oh some of my other freinds rotary clubs made them show off thai danceing! they did great and they were all decked out in traditional thai costumes and HEAVY makeup!
we did our firlst song, which was.... decent, her mics werent working, and my guitar was turned on full balst,but we had a fun time cause all of our friends had crowded the stage and were cheering us on
once we finished we were just about to start her song when the mc goes hey you only play one song!
even though we already told him and everybody weed be doing two, but he kicked us offstage, and that was all that we played that night, we were all really bummed, but hey well meet again in like 10 days, so weel how off her song then!
oh one thing about the confrence was freaking that dude from oklahoma was there, you know the guy who thinks im from"cali"
(shudder..)
it was pretty funny, cause joelle and i have voiced our opinions about the use of the word "cali"
(shudder...)
and every time he d=saw me he would inquire " what up cali?"
and evry time id have to restrain my self and reply through gritted teeth
"nothin much"
c'mon!!
who in thier right mind calls california cali???
alright
settling down.....
after the first night my rotary entourage tok off, and left me to fend for myself, so i got a ride home with this old guy who was goin to kk, and i swear i was in this van for 5 hrs with yoda, nice guy, but he could have been argualbly the single greatest jedi in history!
first off this guy was Short! i mean very SHORT somewhere in the ball park of 5 foot
secondly he had ll this kinda whispy innapropriate facial hair
an lastly every couple min or so heed maked these little grunting noises, like he was pondering the mysteries of the force or something like that
anyways it made for an entertaining car ride!
in other news conditions have greatly improved with my host bro, were getting alon real well, i actually founbd a book of his called AMERICAN SLANG, its really funny when he practices on me cause he dropps his coice really low an wiil in a super serious over innuniated voice ask
"whats the plan... Stan???"
so im tryin to help him there! its super funny though
hmmm
mae tuk is good too, she and i are speakin in thai alot more, its really fun hangin out with her!
the other night we stayed up and wathced horror movies on tv!
ummm
my host dfad is still a jerk...
dude wont say a word to me, but i guess i shouldent comlain, cause i am gettin a room to stay in!
welll like i said in the tilte ive only ogt like 3 days left till my mom comes to thailand, so next blog will have our adventures in it!!!
til then!!
ryan
Monday, February 25, 2008
wo, i cant belive i forgot to say this!
alright, so it was late last night when i finally finished, and i had the sneakin suspicion that i forgot to put somethin major in, and as son as i climbinto bed and get settled, it hits me, i forgot to tell you alll about my last day of school!
so my delima was, should i go back downstairs and put this last part in, or... wait till morning
i waited.
so its something like 1 oclock before i could even get to the computer, casue mae tuk just bought a new comuter, and atom woke up round 9(hes out of school too) so he could use the computer for a good 4 hrs!
finnally he got hungry, and here i am.
alright so anyways friday, like i said was my last day in school, so i go ther on time and everything only to find everybody just walkin round aimlessl;y
i meat up with my friends, and find out that they are making thes little pins and necklaces with thier pictures, phone numbers and email addresses, the idea here is, they will always be in touch, cause they give out thes thingies with thier contact info, that the reciver wears all over thier body, only problem, is that were in thailand, and its HOT in the day, so here i amcovered withncklaces boby pins and chlose pins while i stagger throughheat in the 90s!
later on that day they had a concert, and some of my friends were in the band so i was able to go onstage and jumparoud with them which was sweet!
apprently grad isnt as big of a deal as it is in the states, i mean there were no diplomas of parents, it was just a big party for the students!
well that was my last day of school!
ryan
so my delima was, should i go back downstairs and put this last part in, or... wait till morning
i waited.
so its something like 1 oclock before i could even get to the computer, casue mae tuk just bought a new comuter, and atom woke up round 9(hes out of school too) so he could use the computer for a good 4 hrs!
finnally he got hungry, and here i am.
alright so anyways friday, like i said was my last day in school, so i go ther on time and everything only to find everybody just walkin round aimlessl;y
i meat up with my friends, and find out that they are making thes little pins and necklaces with thier pictures, phone numbers and email addresses, the idea here is, they will always be in touch, cause they give out thes thingies with thier contact info, that the reciver wears all over thier body, only problem, is that were in thailand, and its HOT in the day, so here i amcovered withncklaces boby pins and chlose pins while i stagger throughheat in the 90s!
later on that day they had a concert, and some of my friends were in the band so i was able to go onstage and jumparoud with them which was sweet!
apprently grad isnt as big of a deal as it is in the states, i mean there were no diplomas of parents, it was just a big party for the students!
well that was my last day of school!
ryan
Sunday, February 24, 2008
99.5 namphong radio, listen all day, all night! boys town, and my hatred of the too yen!
alright!
so this week like i said befre i didnt have class until friday, but i was gonna go on monday just to wish my friends luck on thier exams, but when monday rolled around, i got up early, showered, went to my room to get dressed, only to realize thatthe dayy before i put all my clothes in the wash, and then the maid took all of them to iron em,which left me, in my room, sopping wet, with no uniform, which ment i couldent go to school, well... alright then, you cant blame me for not trying!
the next day i went to kk and hung out with megan, shes an exchange student from afs, we just went all around the city going to the usual places, the market, tukom mall, the dvd stores, what we usually do..
wednesday...
nothing remarkable.
thursday, i found out there were some people from oklahoma with rotary, the were spendin a month in thailand, and were goin to visit my rotary club, so on thursday tak(shes the daughter of my host moms friend, she speaks really good english, and djs at namphong radio on the weekends,remember that, its important)and i tagged along with them, they were 5 people around 30, 2 guys and 3 girls they were.....
pshhhh...
from.... oklahoma?
i don know they were people, i spent a few hours with them!
its kinda funny, something i realized one of the guys goes up to me and goes, oh hey your from cali right?
and then something clicked,i can always tell if people arent from california, cause no one from california, ever calls it cali, micheal oneof the teachers at namphonsuksa asked me the same thing right after he told me he was from new york, i really dont know if this will intrest you guys at all, but hey its my blog!
i do what i want
anyways...we went to a projet of the community that takes care of "orpaned" boys i say "orphaned"because many times in thailand, thai men will have a few children with thier wife, and once the wife is using all of her time raising the children, the father will go out and find a much younger woman to"take care" of him, and in some cases the mother just cannot care for all the children that the man has left her with, and children are abandoned.
the boys town takes in boys from familys that either cannot take care of them, wont take care of them, or boys whose parents have died in either accidents, drugs or, and give them a place to stay, work and live, while they go through elementry, high school and in some cases supporsts them through universitys.
the boys that live thre go to school, and farm the land, growing mangos coconuts and other vegetables, and sell them in the market(the food they grow is increadible, hotels in khon kaen buy it form them, and the mangos are said to be the best in namphong), they also have soccer and tukrow(its like vollyball with your feet) teams that play teams from other schools and groups, and even though the other teams have fancy equipment and better supplys the boys town team is the one that wins the championships!
so i went with the dudes from oklahoma and visited the boys town and met the guys that lived there, i was even able to speak thai with them!
after vistiing boys town we had lunch, the we took the gse people to visit the snake village!
youy know the place where they have little children fight cobras, and old guys fight16 fot king cobras!!
anyways it was as crazy as last time, only in one of the fights the snake won!
yeah the kid didnt move fast enough and it snagged his leg!
the fight was stopped, and another kid came out and pulled it out of kid 1's
leg and then he went ringht back at fightin the snakes!!
(if you want to hear more about the snake village, look at like my first month of blogs, yoyull find it)
ALLRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THATS IT IM PISSED!!!
ive gotta vent, you know one thing i wont miss when i leave here?
one thing im gonna be glad to never see again???
THAI REFRIGERATORS!
im sreious!
i just got up to go and cook myself some dinner(i cooked some noodelles fried them up with seasoning and egg, kind like pad thai)
anyways i go to reach into the frige to get an onion, and as always, im blasted by a horrendous stench of bad fish meat, and mold, something ivecome to terms with, after i poke moldy bits of "food" out of the way with a pencil i reach the onions, i go to reach for one, and heres the last straw, something from the upper shelf BLED ON ME!!
yes blood from some kind of animal, probalby stiilll half alive BLED all over my hand!
and im serious, every thai fidge ive ev er seen has been just about this discusting!
it think im gonna stick to eatin coconuts, ill shake the tree in the yard, yeah, thatll work.
where was i?
oh so agfter the snake thing the oklahomies headed out and i was hangin out with tak and she invites me to go with her on saturday to the radio station and help dj, sweet!
so well skip over friday, cause ive been there, nothin life changin hapened
SOOO saturday around4 oclock she picks me up on her motorcycle, and we head to the studio?yeah i think thats what you call it.
we get there i meet some of the other djs and we go into this little room with egg crates all over the walls 2 computers earmuffs and those mirophones with that mesh thingie over the top.
we sat down, i actulally introduced myself, i talked about where i went to school and where i was form, and sheed play thai music, some english, like maroon 5, she told me if i was able to get a cd with some american music, we could play some next time i came to help out, anyways my account of it might sound boring,but it was fun, wed tlak for like 3.5 min., shed put an say some advertisements, put on a new song, then continue our conversation.
hm oh, i also found out that im gonna have to play guitar at the inboud rotay confrence ina week and a half, sooo i have to figure out what to play, imkinda stuck on jack johnson right now, so its either gonna be "flake", or sittin, waiting, wishing.
hmm ill figure it out
well i think that might wrap it up for me
sorry bout the late post
ryan
so this week like i said befre i didnt have class until friday, but i was gonna go on monday just to wish my friends luck on thier exams, but when monday rolled around, i got up early, showered, went to my room to get dressed, only to realize thatthe dayy before i put all my clothes in the wash, and then the maid took all of them to iron em,which left me, in my room, sopping wet, with no uniform, which ment i couldent go to school, well... alright then, you cant blame me for not trying!
the next day i went to kk and hung out with megan, shes an exchange student from afs, we just went all around the city going to the usual places, the market, tukom mall, the dvd stores, what we usually do..
wednesday...
nothing remarkable.
thursday, i found out there were some people from oklahoma with rotary, the were spendin a month in thailand, and were goin to visit my rotary club, so on thursday tak(shes the daughter of my host moms friend, she speaks really good english, and djs at namphong radio on the weekends,remember that, its important)and i tagged along with them, they were 5 people around 30, 2 guys and 3 girls they were.....
pshhhh...
from.... oklahoma?
i don know they were people, i spent a few hours with them!
its kinda funny, something i realized one of the guys goes up to me and goes, oh hey your from cali right?
and then something clicked,i can always tell if people arent from california, cause no one from california, ever calls it cali, micheal oneof the teachers at namphonsuksa asked me the same thing right after he told me he was from new york, i really dont know if this will intrest you guys at all, but hey its my blog!
i do what i want
anyways...we went to a projet of the community that takes care of "orpaned" boys i say "orphaned"because many times in thailand, thai men will have a few children with thier wife, and once the wife is using all of her time raising the children, the father will go out and find a much younger woman to"take care" of him, and in some cases the mother just cannot care for all the children that the man has left her with, and children are abandoned.
the boys town takes in boys from familys that either cannot take care of them, wont take care of them, or boys whose parents have died in either accidents, drugs or, and give them a place to stay, work and live, while they go through elementry, high school and in some cases supporsts them through universitys.
the boys that live thre go to school, and farm the land, growing mangos coconuts and other vegetables, and sell them in the market(the food they grow is increadible, hotels in khon kaen buy it form them, and the mangos are said to be the best in namphong), they also have soccer and tukrow(its like vollyball with your feet) teams that play teams from other schools and groups, and even though the other teams have fancy equipment and better supplys the boys town team is the one that wins the championships!
so i went with the dudes from oklahoma and visited the boys town and met the guys that lived there, i was even able to speak thai with them!
after vistiing boys town we had lunch, the we took the gse people to visit the snake village!
youy know the place where they have little children fight cobras, and old guys fight16 fot king cobras!!
anyways it was as crazy as last time, only in one of the fights the snake won!
yeah the kid didnt move fast enough and it snagged his leg!
the fight was stopped, and another kid came out and pulled it out of kid 1's
leg and then he went ringht back at fightin the snakes!!
(if you want to hear more about the snake village, look at like my first month of blogs, yoyull find it)
ALLRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THATS IT IM PISSED!!!
ive gotta vent, you know one thing i wont miss when i leave here?
one thing im gonna be glad to never see again???
THAI REFRIGERATORS!
im sreious!
i just got up to go and cook myself some dinner(i cooked some noodelles fried them up with seasoning and egg, kind like pad thai)
anyways i go to reach into the frige to get an onion, and as always, im blasted by a horrendous stench of bad fish meat, and mold, something ivecome to terms with, after i poke moldy bits of "food" out of the way with a pencil i reach the onions, i go to reach for one, and heres the last straw, something from the upper shelf BLED ON ME!!
yes blood from some kind of animal, probalby stiilll half alive BLED all over my hand!
and im serious, every thai fidge ive ev er seen has been just about this discusting!
it think im gonna stick to eatin coconuts, ill shake the tree in the yard, yeah, thatll work.
where was i?
oh so agfter the snake thing the oklahomies headed out and i was hangin out with tak and she invites me to go with her on saturday to the radio station and help dj, sweet!
so well skip over friday, cause ive been there, nothin life changin hapened
SOOO saturday around4 oclock she picks me up on her motorcycle, and we head to the studio?yeah i think thats what you call it.
we get there i meet some of the other djs and we go into this little room with egg crates all over the walls 2 computers earmuffs and those mirophones with that mesh thingie over the top.
we sat down, i actulally introduced myself, i talked about where i went to school and where i was form, and sheed play thai music, some english, like maroon 5, she told me if i was able to get a cd with some american music, we could play some next time i came to help out, anyways my account of it might sound boring,but it was fun, wed tlak for like 3.5 min., shed put an say some advertisements, put on a new song, then continue our conversation.
hm oh, i also found out that im gonna have to play guitar at the inboud rotay confrence ina week and a half, sooo i have to figure out what to play, imkinda stuck on jack johnson right now, so its either gonna be "flake", or sittin, waiting, wishing.
hmm ill figure it out
well i think that might wrap it up for me
sorry bout the late post
ryan
Sunday, February 17, 2008
class of 2550!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so school is OUT!!!!
alright schools done for me, thats probably the biggest, and most exciting news of the week!!
my last official day was on thursday, ill probably go for a bit on monday, to wish my friends luck on thier exams, which are takin place on tes and wed!
then im pretty sure graduation things are on thurs and fri. and well, i think thats it, ill be done with my senior year....
woah.....deja' vu!
any ways this last week at school was fun, my friends asked if id bring my guitar with me so we all could play guitar.....
so thats what they wanted to do instead of classes, c'mon cut em some slack thier seniors!
so one really funny thing that happened, well i thought it was funny, i hope you do too, was earier this week, my freinds were trying to teach me how to play a song in thai, so to help me out, they wrote all the lyrics down phoneticly(ironic) on a piece of lined paper,incedently, the songs name is called ok huk, which meas heart broken(around 75% of all thai sonds are about unrequited love, trust me, thats an actual statistic), so i took it, folded it, you know, the way it would fit in an envelope(trust me this comes into play later)
and took it hopme with me to practice.
so i left it next to the computer, after i went to bed that night, and later on my host mom went to check her mail.
and for the next 2 days, she continued to ask me wierd awkward questions i.e
"so do you like farang girls, or thai girls"
umm what?
"do you have a girlfriend?"
no
"whats more attractive, a girl with tan skin, or white skin?"
umm no prefrence
"are you sure you don have a gilfirend?"
last time i checked
"hey some of those girls in kk are suay mag(very beautiful) do you like any of them??
uhhh what??
so finnaly, i was a little tierd of all this, so i asked why the heck shes asking me all those questions??!!
she goes over to the desk, triumphantly holds up the sheet music, and goes, "I found your love note!"
.........
at this i laughed un controllably for the next minute or so!
then i had to take another five to explain to her, that it wasnt a love note to my supposed girlfreind, but it was a song i was learnig!
but hey i guess that was exactly what the piece of paper looked like!
hahah!!
hmm other than that, well liek i said, school this week went by fine, this weekend was alright, today i went to khon kaen, and hung out with friends, but on satuday, my host brother went to a weekend class, so mae tuk and i stayed home.
it was probably the single laziest day of both our lives.
usually ill help her with chores, but that weekend, tuk hired a maid, so i woke up round nine, went downstairs to find mae tuk on the couch watchin tv in her pjs
so i went back to bed, woke up round 1230
only to find her in the exact same position, so i stayed in my pajamas too, and sat on the floor.
and thats how the next 3 and a half hrs went by.
its smethin im not really proud of, but niether of us moved until 4 in the afternoon,
yeop thats one day of my life wasted, precious hours i will never get back.
anyways... i already told you dudes my plan for this next week, after this, i think ill be able to go back to the hospital and job shadow, which is somthin im lookin forwardf to!
weell sorry fr the short blog, but its all i got!
well
till next time!
ryan
so school is OUT!!!!
alright schools done for me, thats probably the biggest, and most exciting news of the week!!
my last official day was on thursday, ill probably go for a bit on monday, to wish my friends luck on thier exams, which are takin place on tes and wed!
then im pretty sure graduation things are on thurs and fri. and well, i think thats it, ill be done with my senior year....
woah.....deja' vu!
any ways this last week at school was fun, my friends asked if id bring my guitar with me so we all could play guitar.....
so thats what they wanted to do instead of classes, c'mon cut em some slack thier seniors!
so one really funny thing that happened, well i thought it was funny, i hope you do too, was earier this week, my freinds were trying to teach me how to play a song in thai, so to help me out, they wrote all the lyrics down phoneticly(ironic) on a piece of lined paper,incedently, the songs name is called ok huk, which meas heart broken(around 75% of all thai sonds are about unrequited love, trust me, thats an actual statistic), so i took it, folded it, you know, the way it would fit in an envelope(trust me this comes into play later)
and took it hopme with me to practice.
so i left it next to the computer, after i went to bed that night, and later on my host mom went to check her mail.
and for the next 2 days, she continued to ask me wierd awkward questions i.e
"so do you like farang girls, or thai girls"
umm what?
"do you have a girlfriend?"
no
"whats more attractive, a girl with tan skin, or white skin?"
umm no prefrence
"are you sure you don have a gilfirend?"
last time i checked
"hey some of those girls in kk are suay mag(very beautiful) do you like any of them??
uhhh what??
so finnaly, i was a little tierd of all this, so i asked why the heck shes asking me all those questions??!!
she goes over to the desk, triumphantly holds up the sheet music, and goes, "I found your love note!"
.........
at this i laughed un controllably for the next minute or so!
then i had to take another five to explain to her, that it wasnt a love note to my supposed girlfreind, but it was a song i was learnig!
but hey i guess that was exactly what the piece of paper looked like!
hahah!!
hmm other than that, well liek i said, school this week went by fine, this weekend was alright, today i went to khon kaen, and hung out with friends, but on satuday, my host brother went to a weekend class, so mae tuk and i stayed home.
it was probably the single laziest day of both our lives.
usually ill help her with chores, but that weekend, tuk hired a maid, so i woke up round nine, went downstairs to find mae tuk on the couch watchin tv in her pjs
so i went back to bed, woke up round 1230
only to find her in the exact same position, so i stayed in my pajamas too, and sat on the floor.
and thats how the next 3 and a half hrs went by.
its smethin im not really proud of, but niether of us moved until 4 in the afternoon,
yeop thats one day of my life wasted, precious hours i will never get back.
anyways... i already told you dudes my plan for this next week, after this, i think ill be able to go back to the hospital and job shadow, which is somthin im lookin forwardf to!
weell sorry fr the short blog, but its all i got!
well
till next time!
ryan
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Whoops for got to add a tiltle... yhmmmm how bout.... UNTITLED
alright!
another week gone by!
what happened?
soooo, aright so teusday night im just chillin at my house talking on the phone with some friends, when i start noticing this crazy thai music from outside,
i try to ignore it for about an hour(all the while its build ing to a dull roar)
so i finnaly grab my sweatshirt, and go out side to see what all the noise is about, so i live across from a school, i look over and well it was like they were having a huge bonfire!
so i head over to the school to check it out, and i see something like 100 or so kids dancing around the fire spured on by a group of teachers in a bang playin over the loudspeakers! i go to take a seat and watch, when one of the teachers that i met while i worked there, grabs me and trows me these tiny cymbal things that you hit together and close!
over the ruckus she shouts "ryan you play!!"
soooo...
i rock out with thes guys, all the while thai dudes are shouting kids are dancing, and here i am whit my little cymbals, trying to look like i know what im doing!
later on, i found out the reason for the bonfire was because, it was a huge boyscout campout, it was actually pretty fun!
oh so i found out earlier that week that bodyslam, the band i saw at the start of janualry, was coming to khon kaen, of course, i wanted to go, soi called my friend zach(hes pretty much the only exchange student guy, that lives in a 5 hr radius)
to tell him, he comes up with an idea that we can stay the night at his host bros apartemnt(he goes to college in kk) so i ask my host mom, and she says as long as i wake up at 6 the next morning to haul my butt to school, i can go(my words not hers)
so wed. afternoon i get on the buss and meet my friend in khon kaen, ony problem is that its 1pm and we dont need to be at the club where thier playng untill 10 so.... we go to the mall and play guitar hero FOREVER!!, then we get the idea to see if his host bro ended up skipping school, and see we could hang out at his place, in short, he did, and we ended up playing mortal kombat and resident evil with him and a bunch of his thai buddies! it was great, they understood english, so they coukld understand what we were yelling while we were kickin thier butts!
around 9;30 we set off for the club rad(apperintly in thai "rad" means adultery)
we get there, and we find a lady behind a booth with tickes in front of her, zach wants me to learn more thai, and quizes me alot, so he goes hey ryan ill let you handle buyin our tickets, i laugh and step up to the lady, and (in thai) tell her "i would like 2 tickes please"
she looks up and shakes her head, and says a quick sentance, all i catch is dioh, and ha tuhm
i know dioh means wait, and i know ha tuhm is a time, but i cant remember how to tell time in thai!!
alright, so telling time in thai is like super complicated first off you have to say as number(which is not always the hr), and then a suffix or prefixx type thing depending on what time period of the day it is, and aparently in thai8land, there are exactly seven of these time periods in one 24 hr day, so of course time telling isnt one of my fortes!
hard as it is, all thai people use this system
usually though ill cheat, and use military time, so if its 8 o clock am i say bhet na-li-ga which will kinda translates to 8 o clock
it gets funny thouh when, say its 10 o clock pm, ill say yee-sip song na-li-gah which wil translate to 22 o clock
ha
anyways i stand infront of her for a minute or two looking like a moron trying to figure out what ha tum means, before i say thanks and force zach to translate for me, i find out ha tuhm mes 11 o clock(see wierd huh, ha in thai means 5) so weve got about an hr to kill, so we just walk all ong the streets poking t heads into clubs, for about an hr befoe we head back.
we get back at around 10 45, and whiole were waiting another exchange student randomly showes up, her real parents from germany wer comeing to visit her, and on her way to maha sarakam she stopped off top see the concert, and met uss there, at around 11 30 the lady started packing up, so i made a quick decision and grabbed hold of zach, and he grabbed louisa, and i followed the ticket lady behind th counter and past security and dozens of groupies into the club!
once we get in, a guy stops us, we say we want to see the band, he takes or money and stamps our hands and lets us into the room, so we push our way into the room, and stop about 15 feet from the stage, in time to see the opening band finishing up!
once they go offstage, the most awkward thing ever happens!
the lights go off, and when they come back on three oily scantill dressed women pounce onstage holding lighted candles!
for the next 5 minutes or so they dance ofr the drunk guys in the front row!
finnaly bodyslam comes on, and. they. were. BRILIIANT!!!!
absolutly increadible, and one cool thing that happened was the lights overhead, shined on me, i yelled out and waved at the singer, he looked at me for a sec, then laughed and shot me a thumbs up!
ok, he might of just beeen being nice, but i like to think that he recognized me!!
after the concert, we ran outside the club, just intiome to see the bass player shutting the van door!
we were this close!!
arrgh!
so after we got louisa to her hotel, we looked at our watches, and ofund it was 2 30 in the mornig, but we were hungry!
so zach and i stopped off at a 7-11 and sat on the curb and hung out for a while before we went to his host bros appt.
i actually got up on time, threw on my uniform hopped on the song-tail bus(its a pickup with benches remember( and headed to school, i accidently kept fallin asleep on the bus, and the funny part was i was sitting next to some old dude, and every 10 minutes heed push me off of his shoulder after i fell asleep on him!
i felt bad, but my skleepyness out wieghed my guilt
long storty short, i got to school and foung i didnt have classes, so i checked my mail then went home for a nap!
the next couple days went by normally, i havent been playing as mush guitar cause i was in my livin room, and it was hot, so i turned on the fan, only it wouldent rotate, so i started fiddling with it, while it was still turned on, you know, so i could tell if i was doing the right thing!
evidently that wasnt such a great idea, cause the stupid thing sucked my hand into it and left a an inch long cut on my right thumb, and to top it off, i dont know how to saybandaid in thai!
anyways.. sat. i went to kk and watched movies with friends, we watched saun of the dead, and golden compass, tow great movies
hmm thats bout it, ive got 2 weeks of school left! so im just pushing till the 21st!
oh i almost forgot, it was hillarious, coming homefrom kk on sat i go to get on the songtail bus, only to see that it is PACKED, and the only place for me to fit, is to sit on the footstep(ive told you before, its a metal grate thats hangin off the back of the pickup about 6 ines from the ground) next to an old thai lady, who i have a suspicion is smashed!
she looks up at me grinns(i could count her teath on one hand) and pats the seat (on the grate) next to her, oh well.. i sit down, and sure enough, she reeks of beer.
she smiles at me, belches, then pulles a beer and a straw out of her pocket, and starts to suck it down, this ia ll happening mind ou as we fly down the highway six inches above the ground at 80kph
she was the funniest lady, shed keep talking to me(burping quite loudly ever other sentance) then she started singing, the same tune over and over again, after the fith time or so i had it memorized, and i started to humm with her, she loved that! we went on like that for a while, until she had to hit the stop button, and get off, pretty much the most entertaining bus ride ever.
well thats it, im spent!
peace!
ryan
another week gone by!
what happened?
soooo, aright so teusday night im just chillin at my house talking on the phone with some friends, when i start noticing this crazy thai music from outside,
i try to ignore it for about an hour(all the while its build ing to a dull roar)
so i finnaly grab my sweatshirt, and go out side to see what all the noise is about, so i live across from a school, i look over and well it was like they were having a huge bonfire!
so i head over to the school to check it out, and i see something like 100 or so kids dancing around the fire spured on by a group of teachers in a bang playin over the loudspeakers! i go to take a seat and watch, when one of the teachers that i met while i worked there, grabs me and trows me these tiny cymbal things that you hit together and close!
over the ruckus she shouts "ryan you play!!"
soooo...
i rock out with thes guys, all the while thai dudes are shouting kids are dancing, and here i am whit my little cymbals, trying to look like i know what im doing!
later on, i found out the reason for the bonfire was because, it was a huge boyscout campout, it was actually pretty fun!
oh so i found out earlier that week that bodyslam, the band i saw at the start of janualry, was coming to khon kaen, of course, i wanted to go, soi called my friend zach(hes pretty much the only exchange student guy, that lives in a 5 hr radius)
to tell him, he comes up with an idea that we can stay the night at his host bros apartemnt(he goes to college in kk) so i ask my host mom, and she says as long as i wake up at 6 the next morning to haul my butt to school, i can go(my words not hers)
so wed. afternoon i get on the buss and meet my friend in khon kaen, ony problem is that its 1pm and we dont need to be at the club where thier playng untill 10 so.... we go to the mall and play guitar hero FOREVER!!, then we get the idea to see if his host bro ended up skipping school, and see we could hang out at his place, in short, he did, and we ended up playing mortal kombat and resident evil with him and a bunch of his thai buddies! it was great, they understood english, so they coukld understand what we were yelling while we were kickin thier butts!
around 9;30 we set off for the club rad(apperintly in thai "rad" means adultery)
we get there, and we find a lady behind a booth with tickes in front of her, zach wants me to learn more thai, and quizes me alot, so he goes hey ryan ill let you handle buyin our tickets, i laugh and step up to the lady, and (in thai) tell her "i would like 2 tickes please"
she looks up and shakes her head, and says a quick sentance, all i catch is dioh, and ha tuhm
i know dioh means wait, and i know ha tuhm is a time, but i cant remember how to tell time in thai!!
alright, so telling time in thai is like super complicated first off you have to say as number(which is not always the hr), and then a suffix or prefixx type thing depending on what time period of the day it is, and aparently in thai8land, there are exactly seven of these time periods in one 24 hr day, so of course time telling isnt one of my fortes!
hard as it is, all thai people use this system
usually though ill cheat, and use military time, so if its 8 o clock am i say bhet na-li-ga which will kinda translates to 8 o clock
it gets funny thouh when, say its 10 o clock pm, ill say yee-sip song na-li-gah which wil translate to 22 o clock
ha
anyways i stand infront of her for a minute or two looking like a moron trying to figure out what ha tum means, before i say thanks and force zach to translate for me, i find out ha tuhm mes 11 o clock(see wierd huh, ha in thai means 5) so weve got about an hr to kill, so we just walk all ong the streets poking t heads into clubs, for about an hr befoe we head back.
we get back at around 10 45, and whiole were waiting another exchange student randomly showes up, her real parents from germany wer comeing to visit her, and on her way to maha sarakam she stopped off top see the concert, and met uss there, at around 11 30 the lady started packing up, so i made a quick decision and grabbed hold of zach, and he grabbed louisa, and i followed the ticket lady behind th counter and past security and dozens of groupies into the club!
once we get in, a guy stops us, we say we want to see the band, he takes or money and stamps our hands and lets us into the room, so we push our way into the room, and stop about 15 feet from the stage, in time to see the opening band finishing up!
once they go offstage, the most awkward thing ever happens!
the lights go off, and when they come back on three oily scantill dressed women pounce onstage holding lighted candles!
for the next 5 minutes or so they dance ofr the drunk guys in the front row!
finnaly bodyslam comes on, and. they. were. BRILIIANT!!!!
absolutly increadible, and one cool thing that happened was the lights overhead, shined on me, i yelled out and waved at the singer, he looked at me for a sec, then laughed and shot me a thumbs up!
ok, he might of just beeen being nice, but i like to think that he recognized me!!
after the concert, we ran outside the club, just intiome to see the bass player shutting the van door!
we were this close!!
arrgh!
so after we got louisa to her hotel, we looked at our watches, and ofund it was 2 30 in the mornig, but we were hungry!
so zach and i stopped off at a 7-11 and sat on the curb and hung out for a while before we went to his host bros appt.
i actually got up on time, threw on my uniform hopped on the song-tail bus(its a pickup with benches remember( and headed to school, i accidently kept fallin asleep on the bus, and the funny part was i was sitting next to some old dude, and every 10 minutes heed push me off of his shoulder after i fell asleep on him!
i felt bad, but my skleepyness out wieghed my guilt
long storty short, i got to school and foung i didnt have classes, so i checked my mail then went home for a nap!
the next couple days went by normally, i havent been playing as mush guitar cause i was in my livin room, and it was hot, so i turned on the fan, only it wouldent rotate, so i started fiddling with it, while it was still turned on, you know, so i could tell if i was doing the right thing!
evidently that wasnt such a great idea, cause the stupid thing sucked my hand into it and left a an inch long cut on my right thumb, and to top it off, i dont know how to saybandaid in thai!
anyways.. sat. i went to kk and watched movies with friends, we watched saun of the dead, and golden compass, tow great movies
hmm thats bout it, ive got 2 weeks of school left! so im just pushing till the 21st!
oh i almost forgot, it was hillarious, coming homefrom kk on sat i go to get on the songtail bus, only to see that it is PACKED, and the only place for me to fit, is to sit on the footstep(ive told you before, its a metal grate thats hangin off the back of the pickup about 6 ines from the ground) next to an old thai lady, who i have a suspicion is smashed!
she looks up at me grinns(i could count her teath on one hand) and pats the seat (on the grate) next to her, oh well.. i sit down, and sure enough, she reeks of beer.
she smiles at me, belches, then pulles a beer and a straw out of her pocket, and starts to suck it down, this ia ll happening mind ou as we fly down the highway six inches above the ground at 80kph
she was the funniest lady, shed keep talking to me(burping quite loudly ever other sentance) then she started singing, the same tune over and over again, after the fith time or so i had it memorized, and i started to humm with her, she loved that! we went on like that for a while, until she had to hit the stop button, and get off, pretty much the most entertaining bus ride ever.
well thats it, im spent!
peace!
ryan
Monday, February 4, 2008
hey ive been here for 6 months now!!
BIG NEWS!!!!!!!
ready???
so i got my ATM CARD!!!!!
life is goood.
alright so mid week i got that, which was awesome!
alright so mon and teu all the guys from my class werent there, som mon i stayed home, and teus i went to kk and ate breakfast and played some guitar herro with my friends, my favorite thai food right now is called
"goi tiaw" its like this soup stuff that you put sugar andpeppers, and nuts in, and its in a word, amazing!
also theres this in creadible food my hm picks up in town for my breakfast(usually she leaves right as i wake up, so 90% of the time theres some form of food on the table, with stickey rice waitin for me, i think shes way cool.
so this food is pretty a mix between the hardest jerkey youve ever eaten, and the best bacon ever, its like pork jerkey, i think its just strips of meat frien in oil and garlic, anyways, this food is bomb!
i eat it with my stickey rice and its one of my favorite breakfasts, but the only thing is that since its like super tough, i get it all stuck in my teath!
an its not just a oh ryan, you got a little smigen of meat stuck right there, NO, the jerkey permeates every gap in my teath!
and painfully too, its like i can FEEL my jaws throbbing every time blood is pumped there!
my friends here say use tooth picks, but for some reason they dont work, and before i know it i find my self staring blankly at the teacher, having wetdreams about floss!
that was a little dramatic, but its gotten to the point where i fantasize about peppermint flavored bits of string...
hmm... alright, so school the next three days was fun, i just hang out with my friends, play guitar, and study thai,my moms coming here soon, and i dont want to look like a complete failure when she gets here!
schools windin down for me, ive only got like until the 22 or so to go!
i really didnt think it would happen, but some how im staring to get senioritis all over again, imean for some reason im really into naps right now, ill comehome after school and crash around 6 or so and wake up around 7 when my hm and hb come in, i hope i dont have mono...
man, that would suck...
anyways im really excited for when schools over, cause then ill be able to travel more, also ill get to go back to the hospital again!
hmmm, so im kinda relived, cause atom, my host bro and i havent been getting along recently, something aboutme coming back to live at his house again set him off, but just this week we started hangin out again, and we started being cool with eachother, on the other hand, my host dad, has started being well... a jerk.
imean hes just, i dont know it seems like anything that me or my host mom do, piss him off!
it feels like hes discusted with me for some wierd reason!
whatever, he only comes home like ev ery other week, so its not bad!
hmmso this weekend i went to a party at one of my friends house, her host mom runs a dance studio, so she needed guys that could "dance"
somehow she ended up with me.
but we had fun, freya and maria and i hung out, tried to waltz, rumba, and cha-cha and i stayed over that night, the next day i just headed home and ate dinner with my family.
sunday i just rode around namphong on my bike, so some freaky reason its been freezing here!
ive been wearing sewatshirts, its like 22 degerees celcius here, i really haVE NO IDEA(whoops) how cold that is, i just know im freezing my butt off here!
sunday i didnt post, because, well im sorry! i didnt get to the comp until around 11 and i wanted to sleep ok?
alright thats my week!
pob gan!(see you)
ryan
ready???
so i got my ATM CARD!!!!!
life is goood.
alright so mid week i got that, which was awesome!
alright so mon and teu all the guys from my class werent there, som mon i stayed home, and teus i went to kk and ate breakfast and played some guitar herro with my friends, my favorite thai food right now is called
"goi tiaw" its like this soup stuff that you put sugar andpeppers, and nuts in, and its in a word, amazing!
also theres this in creadible food my hm picks up in town for my breakfast(usually she leaves right as i wake up, so 90% of the time theres some form of food on the table, with stickey rice waitin for me, i think shes way cool.
so this food is pretty a mix between the hardest jerkey youve ever eaten, and the best bacon ever, its like pork jerkey, i think its just strips of meat frien in oil and garlic, anyways, this food is bomb!
i eat it with my stickey rice and its one of my favorite breakfasts, but the only thing is that since its like super tough, i get it all stuck in my teath!
an its not just a oh ryan, you got a little smigen of meat stuck right there, NO, the jerkey permeates every gap in my teath!
and painfully too, its like i can FEEL my jaws throbbing every time blood is pumped there!
my friends here say use tooth picks, but for some reason they dont work, and before i know it i find my self staring blankly at the teacher, having wetdreams about floss!
that was a little dramatic, but its gotten to the point where i fantasize about peppermint flavored bits of string...
hmm... alright, so school the next three days was fun, i just hang out with my friends, play guitar, and study thai,my moms coming here soon, and i dont want to look like a complete failure when she gets here!
schools windin down for me, ive only got like until the 22 or so to go!
i really didnt think it would happen, but some how im staring to get senioritis all over again, imean for some reason im really into naps right now, ill comehome after school and crash around 6 or so and wake up around 7 when my hm and hb come in, i hope i dont have mono...
man, that would suck...
anyways im really excited for when schools over, cause then ill be able to travel more, also ill get to go back to the hospital again!
hmmm, so im kinda relived, cause atom, my host bro and i havent been getting along recently, something aboutme coming back to live at his house again set him off, but just this week we started hangin out again, and we started being cool with eachother, on the other hand, my host dad, has started being well... a jerk.
imean hes just, i dont know it seems like anything that me or my host mom do, piss him off!
it feels like hes discusted with me for some wierd reason!
whatever, he only comes home like ev ery other week, so its not bad!
hmmso this weekend i went to a party at one of my friends house, her host mom runs a dance studio, so she needed guys that could "dance"
somehow she ended up with me.
but we had fun, freya and maria and i hung out, tried to waltz, rumba, and cha-cha and i stayed over that night, the next day i just headed home and ate dinner with my family.
sunday i just rode around namphong on my bike, so some freaky reason its been freezing here!
ive been wearing sewatshirts, its like 22 degerees celcius here, i really haVE NO IDEA(whoops) how cold that is, i just know im freezing my butt off here!
sunday i didnt post, because, well im sorry! i didnt get to the comp until around 11 and i wanted to sleep ok?
alright thats my week!
pob gan!(see you)
ryan
Sunday, January 27, 2008
another week in the life...
hmmm lright my week
sooo monday i went to school, and i was so prepared, like i woke up early and everything and got ready super fast and every thing, even though i was super tierd so when i finished it was like 7:40, and i dont need to be at school till like 8 or so, and my host mom had already left for work so i sat down on one of those thai cussion things and watched a little tv, we have hbo, si think i was watchin that
next thing i know im wakin up to explaosions on the tv i look at my watch and it says 9:30!
i was pissed!
i woke up that mornig with good intentions and everything, but like an idiot i accidently fell asleep in front of the tv, now i just look like a slacker when i come to school late!
any ways, i totaly forgot, since i havent been to school in a while, how the teachers really don care if im alive there!
so things worked out fine, i just had to explain to my friends, why my shirt was so wrinkled(dadf, youd say it looked like i slept in it.... well guess what? I DID!)
hmm after school ended i took a bike ride, then came home, then well nothin new happened, the next day was the same story, but only when i got home after my ride all sweaty i found out that there was a different padlock on the door!
normaslly i would just call my host mom, and ask how to get in, but that day i had 2 free periods, and i was home about half an hour before i was supposed to be, and since i didn know how to say "free period" in thai, i decided id chill for about half an hr before id call her, in order to skipp the acusation that i, ryan alias would ever ditch class!
so here i am sittin on the ground in the thai heat, with random thai dogs(ok a thai dogs ar dis custing, think of mexican dogs, times like 50) there comin up to me and chillin, and i cant per them cause im afraid of getting herpes, or ghonerrhea from them, finnaly 30 min poass, and i call my hm to ask how to get inside, she says she cahanged the locks cause she lost her key, and she says the new key is with the..
"bakswho"
this throws me, i tell her i have ab so lutly no idea what a bakswho is!
she keeps insitsing that i do, saying its in the front of the house
bakswho!
bakswho!
so im looking high and low, all over and racking my brain for the thai work bakswho!
then i look down, and see the palce where we leaveour SHOES, we have all kinds of colors, even BLACK ones, then i put it together, because of my hms crazy thai accent bakswho=black shoe
no wonder she insisted i knew what the word ment, she was trying to speak english!
so to avoid further embarasment i politley saud thankyou and hung up.
the next day i had the runs.
illl just say it, cause it happens often enough here!
so i called my hm sayin i was stayin home, she asked to explain what was wrong, sooo i said in thai really fast
pai hong-nam muk-muk
in a ryan translation
pai=i go
hong-nam=bathroom
muk-muk, in this context= countless times
"i go to the bathroom countless times"
she laughed and told me to stay home, which wasok with me!
thurs, i went to school. nothing remarkable.
friday, all the boys in my class had to gop to army training, till teusday, in thailand, ther army isnt, hmmm whats that word, its on the tip of my tongue!@
voluntary!!
yeah all guys have to do it, so theyll be gone for the next 5 days, and they said i shouldent come to school those days.
whatever.
so this weekend, was fun though, one of my exng student freinds came down and stayed the weekend, we just watched movies all day!
hmmm i think thats all ive got this week, im kinda tierd right now, didnt sleep much the past couple days, due to watchin movies, i really dont know what im doin tommoro or the next day, but you guys ll know next week
bye!
r
sooo monday i went to school, and i was so prepared, like i woke up early and everything and got ready super fast and every thing, even though i was super tierd so when i finished it was like 7:40, and i dont need to be at school till like 8 or so, and my host mom had already left for work so i sat down on one of those thai cussion things and watched a little tv, we have hbo, si think i was watchin that
next thing i know im wakin up to explaosions on the tv i look at my watch and it says 9:30!
i was pissed!
i woke up that mornig with good intentions and everything, but like an idiot i accidently fell asleep in front of the tv, now i just look like a slacker when i come to school late!
any ways, i totaly forgot, since i havent been to school in a while, how the teachers really don care if im alive there!
so things worked out fine, i just had to explain to my friends, why my shirt was so wrinkled(dadf, youd say it looked like i slept in it.... well guess what? I DID!)
hmm after school ended i took a bike ride, then came home, then well nothin new happened, the next day was the same story, but only when i got home after my ride all sweaty i found out that there was a different padlock on the door!
normaslly i would just call my host mom, and ask how to get in, but that day i had 2 free periods, and i was home about half an hour before i was supposed to be, and since i didn know how to say "free period" in thai, i decided id chill for about half an hr before id call her, in order to skipp the acusation that i, ryan alias would ever ditch class!
so here i am sittin on the ground in the thai heat, with random thai dogs(ok a thai dogs ar dis custing, think of mexican dogs, times like 50) there comin up to me and chillin, and i cant per them cause im afraid of getting herpes, or ghonerrhea from them, finnaly 30 min poass, and i call my hm to ask how to get inside, she says she cahanged the locks cause she lost her key, and she says the new key is with the..
"bakswho"
this throws me, i tell her i have ab so lutly no idea what a bakswho is!
she keeps insitsing that i do, saying its in the front of the house
bakswho!
bakswho!
so im looking high and low, all over and racking my brain for the thai work bakswho!
then i look down, and see the palce where we leaveour SHOES, we have all kinds of colors, even BLACK ones, then i put it together, because of my hms crazy thai accent bakswho=black shoe
no wonder she insisted i knew what the word ment, she was trying to speak english!
so to avoid further embarasment i politley saud thankyou and hung up.
the next day i had the runs.
illl just say it, cause it happens often enough here!
so i called my hm sayin i was stayin home, she asked to explain what was wrong, sooo i said in thai really fast
pai hong-nam muk-muk
in a ryan translation
pai=i go
hong-nam=bathroom
muk-muk, in this context= countless times
"i go to the bathroom countless times"
she laughed and told me to stay home, which wasok with me!
thurs, i went to school. nothing remarkable.
friday, all the boys in my class had to gop to army training, till teusday, in thailand, ther army isnt, hmmm whats that word, its on the tip of my tongue!@
voluntary!!
yeah all guys have to do it, so theyll be gone for the next 5 days, and they said i shouldent come to school those days.
whatever.
so this weekend, was fun though, one of my exng student freinds came down and stayed the weekend, we just watched movies all day!
hmmm i think thats all ive got this week, im kinda tierd right now, didnt sleep much the past couple days, due to watchin movies, i really dont know what im doin tommoro or the next day, but you guys ll know next week
bye!
r
Sunday, January 20, 2008
did you know its the year 2551 in thailand????? also my stay in the hospital(not me)
alright, so funny thing, is atgain im lookin forward to school, and well same as last time....
i was dissapointed!
so arrive at school and find a few of my friends, not all, and then i just hang out with them, we get all the way untill lunch time without going to a class, and im starting to wonder when, if ever, we'll go!
so i ask my friend and he says(rough translation) oh this week we dont have class either!
what!
so i ask why , and basically whats happening is that a committe was coming to school to rate the grounds, and all this week, te teachers were painting cleaning and other chores, so they could make the place presentable, and you know. get a good score or something, and pretty much for students, its you really dont have to come to school, so i stayed for the rest of monday,and then headded home
oh yeah!
i also got my class ring that day!
its cool, its silver, and had nps on the front, for nam phong suksa the schools age, 40 my class, 6/1(6=seniors, and 1= best students in the senior class, its wierd how they split kids up like that, and really the only reason im there is that im an american, i mean, those dudes are doin calculus and stuff like that, it took me 3 trys to pass algebra 1!!!!!!(dad, on the second time was only like... 20% my fault, remember mr. simpson! he was a bad dude, he was fired after that semester...ok))
oh and also they have the number 50 on it too, which was wierd to me at first, i asked around, and i found out...wait get this... in thailand last year was the year 2550, it just turned 2551, i should of known, they dont go off of the christian calandar that western world uses... um because, thier buddhist!
its funny i was talking to my dad about this, and his reply was
"who the heck do they think they are not goin by our calander!!! dont they know were the biggest baddest nation around??? we could blow them out of the water if we wanted to!!!" ect....
my dad and i then had a nice chat about western arrogance... so if you see him remind him for me!
555
alright, where was i?
oh so after i got home my i found out my host br didnt have school either, so we just hung out and watched movies and stuff until thursday,
thusrday night, i found out that one of my friends in khon kaen, carol had to hafve her appendix out, apperantly she woke up feeling terriblle, and when she went to the hospital, they told her it had to come out, so they did the surgey, and for the next couple days sheed be in the hospital.
friday i went to go and see her. she was doing fine, she was in a little pain, but we were able to get her morphine(which mad things pretty funny, ill tell you later) it was me maria, and another friend, megan, who were at the hospital, aperantly theyd stayed the night ther, and they asked me if id do the same, so i asked carol, she said it was cool with her, and my hm said fine, so i stayed there for the next 2 nights.
pretty much what we did was watch movies and keep carol company, the first night wasnt very hard, she was pretty doped up on morphine and she slept alot, there was one time though, when maria and megan were out getting food, and i was hangin out with her by myself where it got pretty funny!
carol had just gotten her morphine, i was sitting next to her bed, and we were watching some movie, pochahantas(did i spell that right?) i think...
when very slowly carol turns to me and goes
"ryan?"
"yep?"
"hey, so i wanna tell you something"(shes kind slurring words right now)
"whats up?"
"soooo, if not for the fact that, you basically l;ive with us, and that your like a brother figure to me, ryan, you would make a great boyfriend"(whole time shes not even looking at me, shes kinda zoning to disney)
i kinda start to laught, but you know turn it into a cough, and go
"really?"
"yes, you know ryan, your just a good guy"
(still trying not to laugh)"well...thanks carol that means alot"
"yeah... and i know this is probly the morphine talking.. but i think you should know that"
that was our pretty much our conversation, i asked her later if she rememberd what she said, she said she did, it was preetty funny, and that she wasnt embarased by it(which is the reason that im cool with typing it up!)
like i said, i stayed the next night also, the 2 girls and i kept her company, andwell since i dint havve a change of clothes, i smelled pretty bad by the time o got home on sunday night(even though id taken a shower there, my clothes still reeked!)
and that is the reason why im doin a late post, so here it is, also i just rememberd
something that happend between me and my old host dad(the one that drank alot) cause i just remembered it today, and it was pretty funny, so ill end with that....
before i tell you guys, uyou have to know thast in thai, the word no is mai, abd when my hd is drunk, he likes to practice his english skills!
so its late one night, and im up watching a movie, and my hd is up drinking whiskey(something you guys gotta know, in thai culture, its perfectly aceptabe to get drunk every night, its just one of those wierd thai things i guess)
and hes gone through about half a bottle by himself, so hes pretty smashed, when i get up to use the bathroom, i walk past him but he, still sitting down, stopps me and just wraps his arms around my waist and gives me a hug, i laugh and ask
mao mai?
(are you drunk?)
he sits, thinks REAL hard for a second, and with a look af satisfaction on his face, he says,
"mo"
prtty much he was so drunk he tryied to say mai and no ath the same time, and came up with mo!
i thoought it was hillarious!
hope you do too, and well thats my week!
peace!
ryan
i was dissapointed!
so arrive at school and find a few of my friends, not all, and then i just hang out with them, we get all the way untill lunch time without going to a class, and im starting to wonder when, if ever, we'll go!
so i ask my friend and he says(rough translation) oh this week we dont have class either!
what!
so i ask why , and basically whats happening is that a committe was coming to school to rate the grounds, and all this week, te teachers were painting cleaning and other chores, so they could make the place presentable, and you know. get a good score or something, and pretty much for students, its you really dont have to come to school, so i stayed for the rest of monday,and then headded home
oh yeah!
i also got my class ring that day!
its cool, its silver, and had nps on the front, for nam phong suksa the schools age, 40 my class, 6/1(6=seniors, and 1= best students in the senior class, its wierd how they split kids up like that, and really the only reason im there is that im an american, i mean, those dudes are doin calculus and stuff like that, it took me 3 trys to pass algebra 1!!!!!!(dad, on the second time was only like... 20% my fault, remember mr. simpson! he was a bad dude, he was fired after that semester...ok))
oh and also they have the number 50 on it too, which was wierd to me at first, i asked around, and i found out...wait get this... in thailand last year was the year 2550, it just turned 2551, i should of known, they dont go off of the christian calandar that western world uses... um because, thier buddhist!
its funny i was talking to my dad about this, and his reply was
"who the heck do they think they are not goin by our calander!!! dont they know were the biggest baddest nation around??? we could blow them out of the water if we wanted to!!!" ect....
my dad and i then had a nice chat about western arrogance... so if you see him remind him for me!
555
alright, where was i?
oh so after i got home my i found out my host br didnt have school either, so we just hung out and watched movies and stuff until thursday,
thusrday night, i found out that one of my friends in khon kaen, carol had to hafve her appendix out, apperantly she woke up feeling terriblle, and when she went to the hospital, they told her it had to come out, so they did the surgey, and for the next couple days sheed be in the hospital.
friday i went to go and see her. she was doing fine, she was in a little pain, but we were able to get her morphine(which mad things pretty funny, ill tell you later) it was me maria, and another friend, megan, who were at the hospital, aperantly theyd stayed the night ther, and they asked me if id do the same, so i asked carol, she said it was cool with her, and my hm said fine, so i stayed there for the next 2 nights.
pretty much what we did was watch movies and keep carol company, the first night wasnt very hard, she was pretty doped up on morphine and she slept alot, there was one time though, when maria and megan were out getting food, and i was hangin out with her by myself where it got pretty funny!
carol had just gotten her morphine, i was sitting next to her bed, and we were watching some movie, pochahantas(did i spell that right?) i think...
when very slowly carol turns to me and goes
"ryan?"
"yep?"
"hey, so i wanna tell you something"(shes kind slurring words right now)
"whats up?"
"soooo, if not for the fact that, you basically l;ive with us, and that your like a brother figure to me, ryan, you would make a great boyfriend"(whole time shes not even looking at me, shes kinda zoning to disney)
i kinda start to laught, but you know turn it into a cough, and go
"really?"
"yes, you know ryan, your just a good guy"
(still trying not to laugh)"well...thanks carol that means alot"
"yeah... and i know this is probly the morphine talking.. but i think you should know that"
that was our pretty much our conversation, i asked her later if she rememberd what she said, she said she did, it was preetty funny, and that she wasnt embarased by it(which is the reason that im cool with typing it up!)
like i said, i stayed the next night also, the 2 girls and i kept her company, andwell since i dint havve a change of clothes, i smelled pretty bad by the time o got home on sunday night(even though id taken a shower there, my clothes still reeked!)
and that is the reason why im doin a late post, so here it is, also i just rememberd
something that happend between me and my old host dad(the one that drank alot) cause i just remembered it today, and it was pretty funny, so ill end with that....
before i tell you guys, uyou have to know thast in thai, the word no is mai, abd when my hd is drunk, he likes to practice his english skills!
so its late one night, and im up watching a movie, and my hd is up drinking whiskey(something you guys gotta know, in thai culture, its perfectly aceptabe to get drunk every night, its just one of those wierd thai things i guess)
and hes gone through about half a bottle by himself, so hes pretty smashed, when i get up to use the bathroom, i walk past him but he, still sitting down, stopps me and just wraps his arms around my waist and gives me a hug, i laugh and ask
mao mai?
(are you drunk?)
he sits, thinks REAL hard for a second, and with a look af satisfaction on his face, he says,
"mo"
prtty much he was so drunk he tryied to say mai and no ath the same time, and came up with mo!
i thoought it was hillarious!
hope you do too, and well thats my week!
peace!
ryan
Sunday, January 13, 2008
pink post-its and harry potter, what more could you ask for?
alright.... so this week has been a litlle boring, so i guess the exitingness of my latest entry might suffer a little sorry dudes...
anyways last time i left you i was venting about my director of the school, and how i was evicted, and made to go to school, right?
yeah
so on monday i go to my school, and i start to look around for my class, and for some reason i cant find them, eventually a teacher comes up to me..
"your ryan right"*
"chai"
"your in 6-1 right?"*
"chai"
"oh, your class is in seminars for college, you shouldent be here this week, go home"*
"are you kidding me!!!!!"
* denotes my own translation of what she said
so pretty much after all of that trouble of changing houses and talking to my host parents and the docs, it turns out that I DONT EVEN HAVE SCHOOL THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!
and since i chnaged houses, i cant go to the hospital either,
so i think to myself well i guess ill just go into khon kaen, and hang out with my friends there, that ill keep me from being boerd...
so teusday i go to kk, and i hang out with friends, eat lunch, watch movies and play guitar hero(im actually gettin better, i can play on hard now)
so right before im about to leave i decide to i have about 180 baht in my wallet, and i go decide to pick up a video game(counterstrike, if you were wondering..) that i can play with my host bro later... leaving me with around 80 baht in my posseion, so i head downstairs to the atm to make sure i have enough to last the week, i open my wallet... only to find.... my atm card is definetly not there, yep, i lost my card, at the point where ive only got around 6 bucks american in my pocket, that night i scrounge my hose, and turn up nothing, so i call my mommy, and ask her to cancel the card, so they can send me a new one, and just like the amaziong parents they are,they oblige,
only problem is that for the next 1.5-2 weeks ive got no money, so much for going to khon kaen to escape boredem(oh did i mention that i also just ran out of money on my thai cell phone, and since ive got no money to buy more minuets(i HATE spelling that word) i cant call my friends...
so... the past four days have been spent at home, im runniong out of movies, my fingers hurt from guitar,my hands are killing me due to computer games(my bro is just as addicted as me), ive read harry potter 7 again(harry potter, pretty much completes me, on the scale of importance hes right up there with air) and there are little pink stickies notes all over the kitchen and living room labeling various frunituyre and other nouns, so i can learn thier names in thai...
sooo yep, pretty much thats whats happened this week ive never felt so lazy before, i mean i didnt put on a shirt until 6pm every night(when my mom gets home from work)
sooo.... tommoro i go back to school, i cant belive im about to say this.. im actually looking forward to going to school, and i kinda hope that im able to go for the whole week...wow...
yep...
thats all ive got for you right now, sorry it wasnt longer
see you in a week
oh wait.. i forgot a thai lesson, here it is
จิงเเล้ว
its pronounced "jing lao?"
basically it means "are you serious? no way!"*
*again, my own translation
use it when you want a thai person to think that you understand what thier talking about...
ok thats it
see you in a week
ryan
anyways last time i left you i was venting about my director of the school, and how i was evicted, and made to go to school, right?
yeah
so on monday i go to my school, and i start to look around for my class, and for some reason i cant find them, eventually a teacher comes up to me..
"your ryan right"*
"chai"
"your in 6-1 right?"*
"chai"
"oh, your class is in seminars for college, you shouldent be here this week, go home"*
"are you kidding me!!!!!"
* denotes my own translation of what she said
so pretty much after all of that trouble of changing houses and talking to my host parents and the docs, it turns out that I DONT EVEN HAVE SCHOOL THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!
and since i chnaged houses, i cant go to the hospital either,
so i think to myself well i guess ill just go into khon kaen, and hang out with my friends there, that ill keep me from being boerd...
so teusday i go to kk, and i hang out with friends, eat lunch, watch movies and play guitar hero(im actually gettin better, i can play on hard now)
so right before im about to leave i decide to i have about 180 baht in my wallet, and i go decide to pick up a video game(counterstrike, if you were wondering..) that i can play with my host bro later... leaving me with around 80 baht in my posseion, so i head downstairs to the atm to make sure i have enough to last the week, i open my wallet... only to find.... my atm card is definetly not there, yep, i lost my card, at the point where ive only got around 6 bucks american in my pocket, that night i scrounge my hose, and turn up nothing, so i call my mommy, and ask her to cancel the card, so they can send me a new one, and just like the amaziong parents they are,they oblige,
only problem is that for the next 1.5-2 weeks ive got no money, so much for going to khon kaen to escape boredem(oh did i mention that i also just ran out of money on my thai cell phone, and since ive got no money to buy more minuets(i HATE spelling that word) i cant call my friends...
so... the past four days have been spent at home, im runniong out of movies, my fingers hurt from guitar,my hands are killing me due to computer games(my bro is just as addicted as me), ive read harry potter 7 again(harry potter, pretty much completes me, on the scale of importance hes right up there with air) and there are little pink stickies notes all over the kitchen and living room labeling various frunituyre and other nouns, so i can learn thier names in thai...
sooo yep, pretty much thats whats happened this week ive never felt so lazy before, i mean i didnt put on a shirt until 6pm every night(when my mom gets home from work)
sooo.... tommoro i go back to school, i cant belive im about to say this.. im actually looking forward to going to school, and i kinda hope that im able to go for the whole week...wow...
yep...
thats all ive got for you right now, sorry it wasnt longer
see you in a week
oh wait.. i forgot a thai lesson, here it is
จิงเเล้ว
its pronounced "jing lao?"
basically it means "are you serious? no way!"*
*again, my own translation
use it when you want a thai person to think that you understand what thier talking about...
ok thats it
see you in a week
ryan
Sunday, January 6, 2008
a concert, and my venting(hope your ready for this)
hmm ok so last time i left you guys i was gonna head out to ubon for new years eve and to see bodyslam in concert!
first off i want to say sorry for the late post, but it was juwst easier cause i got backon wed, to wait till sunday, and make one big post
here we go
ok, so ill streamline this process a bit, basically my friend maria was supposed to come down with me, but at midnight the night before we were supposed to head out, i get a call saying the other rotary moms arent allowing her mom to let her go to the concert! this, in a word, sucked.
so it looks like im heading out on my owm, sooo that morn i got up like at 5 or so to catch the first bus, i rode the bus for about 6 hrs( its funny car and bus rides dont seem that boring or long anymore, i really dont consider a car ride long until it hits the 2-3hr mark, i guess its cause im always riding the bus that i dont even realize it any more...imagine that, im becoming patient....)
oh so the person im staying with is a friend of mine named toey, shes a friend of joelle,who is an exchange student from tahoe, california(oh joelles real mom and moms boyfriend are visiting her for like 2 weeks, they were cool enough to let me hang out with them on the days between the concert and when i go home)
so i got ther and me my host family, and joelles family and that night just hung out with a bunch of thai friends, playing cards, guitar, you know just hanging out.
so the next day was the concert, so we3ll... not musch really happened earlier that day, so ill just skip to the concert, is that cool with you?
good, im glad.
so it was just joelle a kid from germany and karly, another excahnge student, karly went before us and flirted with the roadies, and was allowed backstage, joelle and i came about15 min before the band got there and well i flirted with the roadies, and they let us go to the area where the band would park the van and get out!
soo we waited and eventually the band came, and we were within like teon feet from them(ok so ive gotta explain something to youguys, bodyslam is one of the BIGGEST bands in thailand, i asked joelle what we could relate going to this concert to in the us, she looked at me and said one word.
woodstock.
and she was probably right, cause from on the stage i couldent see where the crowd of people stopped!
wait, ryan, how would you know what the crowd looked like from ontop the stage??
well...
keep reading little one, and you will see....
so here we are 10ft from the band, screaming yelling and cheering them on, they wave at us and then climb the stairs to get on stage, it was here that i took a gamble... joelle had been joking with me earier that day that we had to stick together in a crowd, cause it was easy to mistake me for a thai person....
so right after they climbed up i pulled on my hood and grabbed joelle and strolled right past security and onto the stage!!!
pretty slick huh??
so here we are leaning against the amps and gguitars whuile bodyslam was rocking out, after a while the roadies realized we shouldent be there, but after alot of pleading and quick talking they let us stay!
first off the concert was absolutly amazing!
but there were things that happened that made it all the more glorious!
so im chillin there right next to the amps, and periodically the lead guitarist could come over and a roadie would hand him an energy drink bottle, heed take a swig and dance back on stage, one time he came over, and i started to cheer for him, he looked over at me, took a drink of his energy drink, and yelled out to me
"hey you want a drink??!!""(most bands speak very good english, cause they travel so much)
i answer "sure!!"
he hands me the bottle and i take a huge gulp, cause well im thinking energy drink...
uh-uh
i take my massive gulp ad fight to keep the buring liquid down as it burns all the wayinto my belly!!
it turns out that hedd filled the bottle with straight whiskey!!
coughing and sputtering i toos the bottle back to him, he just laughs at me for a while, takes another swig and runs back onstage!
a little while later, me joelle lucas the german and one of joelles friends are agin just hangin out in the back when we notice the bass and guitar player talking, they look at us and nod, the bass player comes over(still playing mind oyou)
and goes "hey wanna come out and jusmp with us???"
befoer i can answer a big roadie(when i say big, i mean the was one opf those unnatural thai dudes who manged to ignore the normals and be MASSIVE) grabs me by the arm and forces me joelle lucas and a thai girl onstage!
ok you guys remember THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THAILAND!!!!!!!!!!!
AND WERE ION STAGE JUMPING, DANCING, AND ROCKING OUT WITH ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!
when the song finished the lead singer thanked all of us(he... thanked....us...hmmm)
andwe went still shaking from the sheer awesomeness of the whole experiance, to our spot by the guitars for a few more songs, then security found us and forced uss off the stage... but who cares!
we were onstage dancing with bodyslam, and i dank,accidently, out of the guitarists private whiskey!!!
new years was fun too, all we did was eat, set off fireworks, sing kareoke, and sit on a balcony and play guitaer till like 3am or so...
it was fun, what did you guys do??
(my email is ryn_alias@yahoo.com hit me up sometime)
the next couple days all we did was hang out watch movies, and.... you guessed it play guitar!
in movie news-
ryans picks
-rien over me, it was increadible, i cried like a baby!
-amelie, it was french, and hillarious, and made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
-stardust, i was iffy at first, but i got tottaly engrossed in the movie, funny, and alot of action!
and finnaly
-i am legend, i cant even explain how increadible it is, go. now. watch it!
oh yeah, i promised toey id put this im my bolog, when i was hanging out with all of the thai friends, they came up with a new nickna,e for me, mee noi
it basicallly means little bear, i like it enough said
hmm ok so now is the point of my blog that i get to vent to all of you, ready, cause i am!
alright, so i get home and my host mom informs me that im gonna have to move back to mae tuks house the next day, i ask why, and at first she wouldent give me a straight answer, so i stalled and toldher how it qwould take me a couple days to pack, so if i had to move i should move on the weekend, after a bit of pleading she agreed, so i decided to wait until the next day to fnd out why.
net day came and i stared to ask my host mom why, and, again after a while, she told me that the director of namphongsuksa school(ive honestly never even met the dude, iof i have, i dont remember it, all i know about him is that hes really uptight and he doesnt like me wearing shorts at rotary meetings, hes always complained to my host parents about me, never to me!) was angry that i had been goin to the hospital(and learning) instead of going to his school(and taking up space!) and he(like a mature adult, complained to my my rotary moms and forced them to make me move so id be closer to the school and further away from the hospital!
he also told them that he doesent want me going to observe in the ER or OR any more!
i mean most of you guys know, but if you dont, i plan on, once i get back, pursuing a nursing license and goin into the medical field, so what im learning there, i know this, and so do my host moms,is far more important than sitting in a desk from 7 to 4 learning absolutly nothing(i already graduated remember!)
i mean the only reason he wants me thaere is that he wants the publicity of having an exchange student at his school!
ok
im done it think, im gonna go and talk to him tommorro i think and try to explain things, but i was evicted the other day, and im now back at mae tuks house...
i dont mind that so much though, shes an awesome cook...
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hmm so it think that might be my blog, oh yeah i just added 2 more movies on my youtube, the address is
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rynalias
so ther you go
hmm what else, oh i guess i could give you a kwik thai lesson!
ok hes an awesome phrase
ใจเย็นๆ
ok so its pronounced
"jai yin yin"
and literally it means cool your heart!
you use it when someones up in your buisiness, or gettin to mad or crazy about something, it means clam down!
yep thats my first blog of 2008!
happy new year, thanks for reading!
oh and thanks again to every one who sent me cards for christmas, they were great!
love
ryan
first off i want to say sorry for the late post, but it was juwst easier cause i got backon wed, to wait till sunday, and make one big post
here we go
ok, so ill streamline this process a bit, basically my friend maria was supposed to come down with me, but at midnight the night before we were supposed to head out, i get a call saying the other rotary moms arent allowing her mom to let her go to the concert! this, in a word, sucked.
so it looks like im heading out on my owm, sooo that morn i got up like at 5 or so to catch the first bus, i rode the bus for about 6 hrs( its funny car and bus rides dont seem that boring or long anymore, i really dont consider a car ride long until it hits the 2-3hr mark, i guess its cause im always riding the bus that i dont even realize it any more...imagine that, im becoming patient....)
oh so the person im staying with is a friend of mine named toey, shes a friend of joelle,who is an exchange student from tahoe, california(oh joelles real mom and moms boyfriend are visiting her for like 2 weeks, they were cool enough to let me hang out with them on the days between the concert and when i go home)
so i got ther and me my host family, and joelles family and that night just hung out with a bunch of thai friends, playing cards, guitar, you know just hanging out.
so the next day was the concert, so we3ll... not musch really happened earlier that day, so ill just skip to the concert, is that cool with you?
good, im glad.
so it was just joelle a kid from germany and karly, another excahnge student, karly went before us and flirted with the roadies, and was allowed backstage, joelle and i came about15 min before the band got there and well i flirted with the roadies, and they let us go to the area where the band would park the van and get out!
soo we waited and eventually the band came, and we were within like teon feet from them(ok so ive gotta explain something to youguys, bodyslam is one of the BIGGEST bands in thailand, i asked joelle what we could relate going to this concert to in the us, she looked at me and said one word.
woodstock.
and she was probably right, cause from on the stage i couldent see where the crowd of people stopped!
wait, ryan, how would you know what the crowd looked like from ontop the stage??
well...
keep reading little one, and you will see....
so here we are 10ft from the band, screaming yelling and cheering them on, they wave at us and then climb the stairs to get on stage, it was here that i took a gamble... joelle had been joking with me earier that day that we had to stick together in a crowd, cause it was easy to mistake me for a thai person....
so right after they climbed up i pulled on my hood and grabbed joelle and strolled right past security and onto the stage!!!
pretty slick huh??
so here we are leaning against the amps and gguitars whuile bodyslam was rocking out, after a while the roadies realized we shouldent be there, but after alot of pleading and quick talking they let us stay!
first off the concert was absolutly amazing!
but there were things that happened that made it all the more glorious!
so im chillin there right next to the amps, and periodically the lead guitarist could come over and a roadie would hand him an energy drink bottle, heed take a swig and dance back on stage, one time he came over, and i started to cheer for him, he looked over at me, took a drink of his energy drink, and yelled out to me
"hey you want a drink??!!""(most bands speak very good english, cause they travel so much)
i answer "sure!!"
he hands me the bottle and i take a huge gulp, cause well im thinking energy drink...
uh-uh
i take my massive gulp ad fight to keep the buring liquid down as it burns all the wayinto my belly!!
it turns out that hedd filled the bottle with straight whiskey!!
coughing and sputtering i toos the bottle back to him, he just laughs at me for a while, takes another swig and runs back onstage!
a little while later, me joelle lucas the german and one of joelles friends are agin just hangin out in the back when we notice the bass and guitar player talking, they look at us and nod, the bass player comes over(still playing mind oyou)
and goes "hey wanna come out and jusmp with us???"
befoer i can answer a big roadie(when i say big, i mean the was one opf those unnatural thai dudes who manged to ignore the normals and be MASSIVE) grabs me by the arm and forces me joelle lucas and a thai girl onstage!
ok you guys remember THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THAILAND!!!!!!!!!!!
AND WERE ION STAGE JUMPING, DANCING, AND ROCKING OUT WITH ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!
when the song finished the lead singer thanked all of us(he... thanked....us...hmmm)
andwe went still shaking from the sheer awesomeness of the whole experiance, to our spot by the guitars for a few more songs, then security found us and forced uss off the stage... but who cares!
we were onstage dancing with bodyslam, and i dank,accidently, out of the guitarists private whiskey!!!
new years was fun too, all we did was eat, set off fireworks, sing kareoke, and sit on a balcony and play guitaer till like 3am or so...
it was fun, what did you guys do??
(my email is ryn_alias@yahoo.com hit me up sometime)
the next couple days all we did was hang out watch movies, and.... you guessed it play guitar!
in movie news-
ryans picks
-rien over me, it was increadible, i cried like a baby!
-amelie, it was french, and hillarious, and made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
-stardust, i was iffy at first, but i got tottaly engrossed in the movie, funny, and alot of action!
and finnaly
-i am legend, i cant even explain how increadible it is, go. now. watch it!
oh yeah, i promised toey id put this im my bolog, when i was hanging out with all of the thai friends, they came up with a new nickna,e for me, mee noi
it basicallly means little bear, i like it enough said
hmm ok so now is the point of my blog that i get to vent to all of you, ready, cause i am!
alright, so i get home and my host mom informs me that im gonna have to move back to mae tuks house the next day, i ask why, and at first she wouldent give me a straight answer, so i stalled and toldher how it qwould take me a couple days to pack, so if i had to move i should move on the weekend, after a bit of pleading she agreed, so i decided to wait until the next day to fnd out why.
net day came and i stared to ask my host mom why, and, again after a while, she told me that the director of namphongsuksa school(ive honestly never even met the dude, iof i have, i dont remember it, all i know about him is that hes really uptight and he doesnt like me wearing shorts at rotary meetings, hes always complained to my host parents about me, never to me!) was angry that i had been goin to the hospital(and learning) instead of going to his school(and taking up space!) and he(like a mature adult, complained to my my rotary moms and forced them to make me move so id be closer to the school and further away from the hospital!
he also told them that he doesent want me going to observe in the ER or OR any more!
i mean most of you guys know, but if you dont, i plan on, once i get back, pursuing a nursing license and goin into the medical field, so what im learning there, i know this, and so do my host moms,is far more important than sitting in a desk from 7 to 4 learning absolutly nothing(i already graduated remember!)
i mean the only reason he wants me thaere is that he wants the publicity of having an exchange student at his school!
ok
im done it think, im gonna go and talk to him tommorro i think and try to explain things, but i was evicted the other day, and im now back at mae tuks house...
i dont mind that so much though, shes an awesome cook...
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hmm so it think that might be my blog, oh yeah i just added 2 more movies on my youtube, the address is
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rynalias
so ther you go
hmm what else, oh i guess i could give you a kwik thai lesson!
ok hes an awesome phrase
ใจเย็นๆ
ok so its pronounced
"jai yin yin"
and literally it means cool your heart!
you use it when someones up in your buisiness, or gettin to mad or crazy about something, it means clam down!
yep thats my first blog of 2008!
happy new year, thanks for reading!
oh and thanks again to every one who sent me cards for christmas, they were great!
love
ryan
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