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
Sunday, January 27, 2008
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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