This past week has been pretty good. My weekend in Bangkok was wild. I found a battle of the bands with Thai punk rock and metal, which was sweet. They were everything from really good to really funny. My favorite song was the one where in the middle of the guy stops and starts doing an english lesson to music ‘What is your name?, Where do you come from?, I love you!” haha. I ended up partying with a fellow Canadain from Saskatoon and some girls from Leeds. It was a fun night.
The rest of this week I spent traveling to Lao and back to get a new visa. I stopped in Piboon near the boarder to teach a class at an outside school. It was fun and all the little kids stood up at the beggining of the class a gave me a rose. They were so cute!
Getting my visa was hillarious, I confused the boarder guard by speaking english really fast and reaping the word FREE! FREE! over and over. The coversation went soemthing like this…
“Why you come to Thailand?” – I like Thailand.
“Where you stay?” – uhhh Chaing Mai, Puket (this is like saying ill stay in Toronto and Vancouver when entereing Canada)
.. I get a wierd look … – Free extension! Free visa, free visa! (using jedi mind trick)
He stamps some of my passport looks at me … – Free ! Free! (bending my will upon his mind)
.. more stamps and hands it to me.
In the end I got 2 months free in Thailand which should have cost me about $80. I was only supposed to get 1 month but my ninja skills were too powerful!
Now im just chillin out in Korat again waiting for english camp this weekend, and possibly hooking up work for next week.
That’s great, 2 more months – and for free – there’s nothing wrong with that. Hope the English camp went well and good luck on the job search.
Learned well have you…young Matthew. May the force be with you!
xoxo SIS
Sweet! Have fun and keep blogging!
i have GOT to try that “FREE FREE FREE” thing at the mall….. do you think they’ll go for it?