White House Resort Pattaya Chon Buri

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Everyone here is super sweet though. Although, since I am the new teacher and the only white person everyone seems to know me and keep tabs on me which I find a little creepy. Case in point, the first week here I discovered the bakery they have on campus and then the next few days people kept bringing me the same sweet that I had bought that day. Really nice, but really fattening, and weird that these people I did not know knew what I had ...

... to expose tourists to the richness of the surrounding Thai architectural and cultural river side living. One can sample freshly cooked authentic Thai delicious dishes from the water vendors.Pattaya Floating Market - A place to sample authentic Thai dishesThe compound also features rice farming, sunflower ...

... sightseeing all day yesterday. We heard a few loud kabooms around 8pm last night (I, of course, immediately thought gunshots), but looked out our balcony over the river to a great fireworks show. Today we took a bus ride about an hour north of Bangkok to tour the old capital city, temple ruins (600 years old) and then to the king's summer palace (big, ornate buildings, surrounded by a moat). We took a ...

Last weekend we spent in Thai way. Saturday morning we headed to Bang Saen (as many Bangkokers do), beach town just something over an hour to the south from Bangkok. This is a place where locals go to enjoy themselves, but not necessarily in the sea. Some of them just lean back in a deckchair and bit by bit consume delicious Thai food. We did so as well ...

... had a TV if you can stand Thai television for more than five minutes. Dinner that night was taken in the little restaurant run by the very friendly Thai family who manage the bungalows, the restaurant, rent out motorbikes and even run snorkelling trips at the weekends! After a delicious meal of Paid Thai (Thai noodles, vegetables and thankfully unidentifiable meat) we headed to the local Karaoke bar which was empty, surprisingly, as Thais LOVE ...

... quality suit according to many reviews I read online. I spent a couple days sightseeing in Bangkok with a couple guys from the hostel. With three of us we where able to get a decent deal on a long tail boat to check out the river and I was surprised to see how intricate the river/canal system is in Bangkok. I had thought there was just the large river that runs through the ...

... in the middle of the night! We'd planned to stay where I'd stayed last time but the room they showed us was just an expensive windowless cell (last time I had a nice one with a balcony 4 the same price) so we went to Dean's place which had a cheap windowless cell! Dean had always told me about "Willy's Homestay" where he always stayed in bangkok, when we went there it turned out to be called "Wally House" (add your own joke here!). Wally House was cheap ...

... having air flow around the clothes we would end up with mold. Then, it dawned on me... we could use the bunkbed frame. Mike and I set it back up (sans the bottom bunk) wiped down the frame, and *BAM* we had a huge drying rack. Two months ago I would have paniced at the lack of something I found so basic in the US. Now I have great pictures to send home! (which I will as soon as the internet connection speeds up)

... Red is telling her you love her and is good for Valentine's Day, a birthday, or New Year's. Yellow is for mourning, so don't give her those, as yellow is for funerals. The Engagement Now you are both in love and you are ready for ask for her hand in marriage. Take her to a nice restaurant for a romantic dinner and just ask her--that's all there is to it. Don't purchase a ring or anything. If she says yes, congratulations. Don't worry about her parents and what they night ...

... lots of wats (temples)and no skytrain boooo cos i love the skytrain. We have been over to the flashy parts of town ie. Siam Square is where all of the bling bling malls are and the big MBK centre where we also went to yesterday shopperama basically, it was pretty overwhelming but i managed to buy myself some sparkly shoes and some hair straightners and a caftan top with sparkly beads on it aaand we used the skytrain.