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!
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