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
Monday, February 25, 2008
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
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