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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