Weekend Festivities

This weekend was great. Friday we celebrated “tap night” Thai style, and I even wore a dress with a cute little purple and navy blue owl on it that I bought here. We met some Russian’s and a few groups of Thai people and just hung out for the evening and listened to some good music J Saturday was a long, rough, yet eventful day for me. We got up at 8:30 and saw some museums/touristy things…I honestly couldn’t even tell you what the first two places were cause I hate that kind of stuff (yeah, I’m still immature and don’t appreciate historical things). We did see the temple that had the biggest golden buddah in Thailand (first picture, people are paying reverence to it and giving gifts). Then we had lunch in China town, that was super cool until I got sick and had to SPRINT to the restroom (or “hong nam” in Thai) where I started uncontrollably throwing up. Remember, they don’t have normal toilets, no they have “squatty potties” which is a little porcelain bowl about 5 inches high. So I’m aiming for this little thing only to find out I threw up all over my shoes. In America, not a big deal you can wash them off in the sink. THEY DIDN’T HAVE A SINK THOUGH. We shopped around China Town awhile which was a neat place, it just had millions of little shops all over the streets. After lunch I was sick, hot, and not wanting to be out and about…and what did we go see? The Kings Palace. It was cool and I’m glad I can say I’ve seen it, but I was neither in the mood or impressed by it at all. That evening we rushed back and got ready because we had plans with some Austrailian friends we made here our first week. We went out to dinner on Kho San Road, which has tons of little shops, restraunts, and bars. I was done with Thai food for the day so I had some yummy fish and chips and we all people watched for a while. Kho San Road is where all the backpackers and people stay so it was the first since we’ve been here this last month that we’ve seen just an area full of “falangs” or foreigners! It was so weird and I didn’t really like it. We live/hang out where all the local Thai people are and its really fun, but it was interesting to hear and talk to people from literally every country. Sunday four of us headed to Hua Hin beach again and once again, I got burnt and I’m peeling. While we were laying out and our cabana boy was delivering our drinks, we met our first Amerian since we’ve been here a MONTH!! There are a few americans where we work but we literally haven’t talked/seen any when we’re out. Then Monday Christin and I went back to Kho San road for some shopping and dinner and it was quite the experience. Its funny because being here everything is so cheap, so you know what the expected price of a dress or shoes should be. Since that is where all the foreigners hang out they jack the prices up and they would ask for 300 baht (equivealnce of $10) and we’d be like NO WAY!! In America we’d buy a dress for $10 in a heartbeat!! But since you KNOW you can get the same dress down the street for $5 you’re mad when they ask for that extra dollar or two lol. We took a shopping break at a restraunt there on the street and met our second American. He was from NY and was quite a jerk, I don’t know why we talked to him as long as we did. Probably because we met the Switzerland people he was hanging with and before you know, we were walking around this little chill out area talking to people from London, Swtizerland, Portugal, Netherlands, EVERYWHERE! We got into a lot of interesting conversations and tried to take pictuers of most of them. Meeting different people has been by far my favorite thing about being here!!