So Canada Day came and went with me on the exact opposite side of the planet. How was it? Did it rain? Or was it really nice and sunny?
This weekend I went to the local weekend market, which was a fun… sunglasses for 80cents! But I restrained myself and bought only weird fruit. I need to keep my clothes buying under control or else I will have to much stuff to put in my bag.
On Saturday I was taken to a lunch party at a school in the country. This school has 47 students and no chairs or desks, the students sit on the floor. But the countryside of I-San (the part of Thailand I’m in) is really nice. After we went to Roi-Et City and visited the museum or Roi-Et and the fish museum. Both were interesting, especially the fish museum cause it had this tunnel walk way underwater where you can look up at the stingrays.
Today I got to drive a motorbike! HAHA no licence no experience..all balls. Then we went to a HUGE Temple on a mountain (Can’t remember the name of it, it’s a Thai name that’s long) This temple covered the entire top of this hill/mountain and had 5 really big floors. At the top you can look out over I-San and see the boarder of Lao. At the very top is a room that is supposed to hold the bones of the Buddha. I got to take a moment to pray and think about what its like to be in a room that has the physical remains of such a being,which I’ve found is really hard to grasp. But it was really cool anyways.
Other than that heres’ a few observations about Thailand that I can think off …
- No toilets, there’s a porcelain thing with a hole but its not a seat its more of a suggested place to stand. And there is no flush, you pour water in it to ‘flush it’
- Motorbikes of the 100 or 125 size or the most popular way to travel, where ever you look you will see swarms of kids on bikes.
- driving age in Thailand is 13.. dang yo.
- Rice for breakfast, rice for lunch, rice for dinner, rice as dessert
- Food here isn’t just spicy it’s down right painful at times
- Every Thai town has aerobics at 6pm.. no matter where you are in Thailand you can have an aerobic workout in the park. Everyone can see you sweat!
- Gay culture is at its peak here.. I have 12 year old ladyboys in my class and on one in Thailand thinks twice about it.
There’s a tone more.. whateves.
Peace out.
Some pics from my english camp sent to me by a Thai teacher..quality is poor but I can upload on dail up so you know.. asia n stuff
edit : ..had to take the pics off cause they were messin stuff up
No rain, it was really nice actually. I spent most of it on a plane from the US, so someone else may have more accurate information.
I think that cute girl in the back of the last picture is looking at your ass.
you’re awesome matt! i’m so happy for you. keep having a blast…you’ll never forget this trip…