Crown Pattaya Beach Hotel Chon Buri

... to writing an amazing amount on my blog and shockingly writing my grad school essay already. I think this may be the first time in my life I haven't procrastinated. 

**Important note: It is not safe in my neighborhood for me to go out at night alone and it gets dark here around 6.

Now this is where you, the reader come in.  I need some ideas as to what to do with all my free time. I have a limited supply of books, and the internet gets dull after a while. 

PLEASE HELP!

... less than a dollar; plus lots of cheap seafood.

So I stay there for 5 days: spent the better part of the day on the beach, swimming or reading or writing my blog with my netbook until I dozed off; or just stared at the horizon, enjoying a beer or drinking the juice of a young coconut.

Finally. I could relax and be lazy and not feel guilty about it.

And that’s why this entry is a short one.

... the web and read my book. Seemed like kind of a waste of a day and quite boring, so I'm hoping I wont have too much down time around here. I honestly dont understand why I have to be here at 8 am if I dont start teaching until 1030 some days. Makes no sense to me. 

Friday was better as I got to start teaching my IEP classes. IEP stands for Intensive English Prep and the students get to choose if they want to be in the ...

... during our break I start chatting with a lovely French girl named Vivi who was traveling with a couple of her friends. Since I had no idea where I was going to stay or even which beach on the island I was going to stay in, I decided to join her and her friends. There was another German girl traveling on her own named Francesca and we all decided to go together.
When I arrived at ferry and saw that ocean, I was elated. It was like the first time I'd ever seen an ocean. We headed ...

We flew to Bangkok & were picked up by pastors of a church from there. They drove us to Pattaya a few hours away & we met up that night with a church that works in this town. The sexual exploitation here is more than unbelievable. I felt quite sickened by it all.



Pattaya, Thailand hilaryramsey

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