The Grand Hotel Bangkok

... conesuer of sorts and discovered Thai silk. Convinced that it could rival Chinese silk, he began to redevelop the Thai silk industry and put a great deal of marketing behind it. Thai silk was used in the very famous “The King and I” movie, and after that, gained world wide attention and popularity. Jim Thompson started his own silk company and provided jobs and revenue to thousands in Bangkok. He built a really sweet house in downtown Bangkok, but then vanished 6 years ...

... market which sells only food, we wander through it in the rain now and out the other side where a very nice gentleman in a suit trys to get us into his friends Tuk Tuk to a gem factory. After escaping from them and now starting to get soaked we try to jump in another Tuk Tuk to take us to the Palace. He agrees and once again we are on our way, then we stop and his friend jumps in and wants more money. We refuse and get out, we have no idea where we are and are ...

... after I finished my blood detox, I went to call taxi outside. I was surprised by the sign informing about how much more blood is needed? It said that 42000 unit is needed and the blood donated today was 3800 unit. I don't know how much the unti is but I guess it equals the bag that they keep my blood. I was just wondering why so many blood is needed like that and how can they reach that number? -----that amount needed is really a lots.

The rain seemed ...

... but most of the class is strong readers. I require they read 10 minutes and night and I have a few students who read for 30 or 40; gee I wonder why they are such good readers! They are great thinkers already and writers as well. One of their homework assignments this past week had a silly picture. I asked for at least one sentence. I had one student write only a sentence. The rest wrote more. I've typed up a few of their stories ...

... Många fattiga boende i näst intill förfallna hus längst med vattnet och djur, som borde vara fria i naturen, i trånga skitiga burar. Det var verkligheten vi fick se idag även om verkligheten för mig är väldigt svår att inse. Vi får båda två få lite mer skin på näsan!

Och Anna har helt rätt, papaya smakar kräk! Fast som tur är har vi världens bästa buffé frukost på hotellet och där har de andra saker än papaya.

Lev väl!
Marie 



 

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... at the Sofitel to start into Steve Smith's recommendation of the Bangkok Bucket - 2 days later we seemed normal enough to travel and had decided that buying a motorcycle in Vietnam to drive to Cambodia was clearly the way to travel - that will be coming up in July folks.

After checking out the Palace, food markets, handbag stores and slipping in some Thai Boxing for a knock out (see vid) we jumped on a plane to Hong Kong for some Confucious action.

... One particularly pretentious guy ordered a hot chai tea, despite that that is clearly an Indian dish and it was 95 degrees and humid out.

We also realized that monks are glorified beggars. We have thus far seen them smoking, riding motorcycles, and getting upper thigh rubs from people on the street. Max shouted, "thats a pretty nice suitcase for someone wihtout any worldly possessions," at one of the monks at the airport. His suitcase was pretty nice.

... just shook his head at me and told me I was unbelievable! I tried to put things in perspective to him, but it probably didn't sink in until he got a $10/hour massage vs. his charge of $70/hr at In Touch ala Casa Su Kress. Later that night we jumped on the Sky Train-a monorail system that takes us high above the grid locked traffic below. We want to go check out Siam Square-the ...

... if there is White Spot in Alberta, but we now know there is White Spot in Bangkok, Thailand. What will they think of next? In the same mall on the same day we found a ridiculous movie theatre. The actual theatre rooms were separated by class. The first class theatre had beds to rent, food service, and expedited ticket lines. The "fun" class theatres had bean bag chairs and couches. We went for the normal / 3rd class theatre where the seats ...