Asia Hotel Phitsanulok

... rice makes me bloat up.

I've also begun decorating my room, I still see too much pure white on the walls. I'm sure Mom will send me plenty of cards I can use to decorate my walls. I'm also keeping an eye out for cool decorations for my room as well. I've never had my own room to decorate, and since I'll be here for another 11 months I want to make this place into more of a home.

... huge beasts, in front of them, behind them, full in their faces etc and they will let me; they will stare at me, or sniff me with their trunks but all the time they stand there so serene and so majestic. Afternoons is normally training time, followed by another feed and another wash. We train them to sit down, to stand back up, to lift a leg so we can climb on, to lift a leg so we can get off, to lower their heads so we can climb on and off by ...

... point)." THAI GUY:- "Oh wedgetawian? You eat egg?" ME:- "Yes. Eggs fine." THAI GUY:- "One wedgetable egg fried rice." I got back to the room to face a blistering, famished meals who was worried that I had been mugged and that I was gone for hours (only one hour). We opened up one of the dishes to see infront of us brown fried rice with a fried egg a top it. Super! Just fricken marvelous! After me getting through to this fella speaking ...

... des boutiques d'uniformes scolaires, mais malgre ce cote tres mercantile elle est tres relaxe et prend le temps de vivre. Les rues sont tres colorees a cause de toutes les enseignes surmontant la rue, mais pas tant de monde s'y promene. Fait cocasse de la journee : Un denomme Christian, Allemand completement pete et saoul a 9h du matin, est venu s'assoir avec nous nous faire la jasette. Citations: " You will looove Laos. I know it sounds cheesy, but it's like heaven on ...

... Just stepping inside Big C was like putting myself through the ringer. And no Metamucil to be found, although the ladies at the cosmetics counter showed me several cellulite removal creams which looked quite effective. So what did I do afterwards? I took a taxi back to my guest house and watched Mtv. It was glorious! And I decided that it might be better for me to chill out for the next day ...

... of animals complete with unicorns giraffes and a fullish sized elephant and mahout, they were a trippy backdrop to the swarms of familes lightng their lanterns, and launching fireworks from the hands of kids. Yep kids holds firework, dad lights it kids hoepfully remembers not to hold firework to hard. Some fantastic snacking and some super young girls singing on the stage, some heartbreaking numbers, with scarily adult costumes. Sun 25th: Bus to Chiang Mai, and back to ...

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...and watched a dragon boat in training for (we later learned) a boat race next weekend, it was absolutely massive!



When we reached the last bridge we saw a new bar which had just opened for business, so we popped in for a couple of beers; well it would be rude not to, right?!



After the lovely cold ...

... muggy as the rest of bangkok..... I went out for Dinner with thim and his bussiness partner to a nice resturant and we had a buffet style meal which was good although I had no idea what most of the food was of what animal/s it had come from and we were out with the owner of one of thailands biggest sports apparal manufactuers..... there was a point where I wondered how this all happened, but then i decided to just not think about it, eat ...

A quick 1 1/2 hour ride north by train took us to Ayuthaya, once the capital and cultural center of Thailand. For such a short ride we opted to take the astonishingly inexpensive (30 cents!) 3rd class train which, though a bit crowded, made for some fun interaction with the locals. I've been working hard at learning some of the basics in the Thai language - numbers (for all the haggling), "Hello", "How are you?", "How much?". "What's your name?" always brings a response that's ...

... and room number. . . . . but before we knew it we had awoken fully clothed in our room and a note had been left at the front desk. I guess they had come and were knocking on the door, but we were already dead asleep. Today we went to another buddist temple where one of the worlds largest buddha statues is. It was pushing 36 degrees out so we spent the majority of the day hungover in our airconditioned room. Tommorrow we head to a town called Lopburi, about 2 hours outside of Bangkok.