tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37151306184462048662024-03-12T18:10:36.128-07:00On Thai TimeLeah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-32424778262575055922014-04-16T15:29:00.000-07:002014-04-16T15:29:26.507-07:00Goodbye and FarewellNow that I have finally gotten settled back into the American way of hot water showers, huge portions, no language barrier (most of the time), soft mattresses, varieties of food and most importantly CHEESE its time I said a quick thank you.<div>
I must thank P Moo my coordinator as well as all the other teachers in my department P Nudee, P Rat, P Porn, P Por, Melanie, Anne, Eak, Nan and the few others I seem to be blanking on their names. They're really hard to remember since they're just sounds and people hardly ever say others names there. I'm just making excuses I know, but I really do appreciate all the help and kindness they gave me. Most of the time we didn't talk because of the language barrier, but I could tell we were fast friends based off hand motions and smiles.</div>
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I also have to thank the other American teachers I taught with, Parker and Jonathan. We all became quite close in part because no one else spoke english fluently in our town and also because friends are fun. I had such a great time on our adventures into the city and it was so nice to be able to talk to someone who was going through the same hardships as I was. </div>
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Next I would like to thank all the people who helped make my trip happen from CIEE and OEG. Alex and Phillip were the best. They went out of their way to help us in anyway possible and I am forever grateful for it. I know there was a lot of behind the scenes work going on too so anyone who helped behind the scenes thanks a million.</div>
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I'd like to thank the friends I met in Thailand. Hannah, Franki, Jack, Kerry, Maggie, Dane (the boys I taught with are also included in this category). You guys were awesome and such a great time. Looking back I wish I had made more trips to see you all, but I hope I'll see you all again someday. Keep on Keeping on!</div>
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Lastly I have to thank the Thai people for being so incredibly kind and happy. Thanks students for brightening my day (mostly). I intend to return someday, but I know I will always look back fondly on my time spent in Thailand.</div>
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Here are a few photos from the beginning of my trip that didn't make it on the blog.</div>
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The railroad tracks that still run over The Bridge over the River Kwai</div>
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The Bridge over the River Kwai</div>
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We had dinner and a dance party on a barge</div>
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This little boat tugged us along at break neck speeds (Not really. It was really slow)</div>
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Woman touching up the 24 karat gold leaf on the Grand Palace</div>
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Our tour guide at the Grand Palace.</div>
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Such an enthusiastic guy while all of us were dying of heat and sweating ALOT</div>
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I'll tell ya one thing... jeans were a bad choice that day.</div>
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More of the Grand Palace</div>
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Kerry and I</div>
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Hannah, me, Frankie and Kerry</div>
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Baby elephants kind of freak me out.</div>
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Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-90106810176959457762014-03-18T23:42:00.000-07:002014-03-18T23:42:15.188-07:00Flowers for hours<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The flowers of Thailand are beautiful and the variety amazes me everyday. Since today is my last day here I walked around my school to take some pictures of all the different flowers at the school. This ones for you mom.</div>
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Our school casually has an orchid garden</div>
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I'm sorry I didn't take the time to find the names for each of them.Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-17039624422225580552014-03-17T02:05:00.000-07:002014-03-17T02:05:33.404-07:00Chatuchak in 91 degree weather.Before I left to go to Chatuchak this morning I tweeted, "Why am I going to an outdoor market in the middle of the day when it's supposed to be 91 degrees out? I have no gosh dang idea." That sort of sums up the trip without all the juicy and fun details. I highly recommend going to Chatuchak should Bangkok ever be your destination. At first I was expecting just a larger version of every other market I go to where the raw meat stall is directly next to the fresh fruit and veggies and across is a stall where you can buy cheap shirts that will fall apart in a month. Boy was I wrong!<br />
This market is super cool. Its super easy to get to since its right next to a BTS stop. Everything is sold there from baby clothes to shower curtains to food to plants to all your woven needs and more.<br />
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The creepiest guy selling children's items</div>
The types of food sold were the kinds of food I (and I imagine all tourists) like to see at a market. Mostly because I don't have any need for raw meats and unprepared veggies and fruit. There was BBQ, deep fried everything that was then deep fried again, freshly prepared fruit on ice, crepes and waffles, drinks and then the most appreciated part were all the frozen delights like freshly dipped chocolate covered frozen bananas, ice cream, popsicles and what I like to call cold fruit and jelly soup which is exactly what the name implies. I got mango sticky rice, a chocolate dipped banana with nuts, watermelon and water. I sadly forgot like 4 times that I wanted to get a popsicle though.<br />
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The queen of the real sugar soda</div>
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Yum a thon</div>
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Seriously the best half a watermelon I've eaten in awhile</div>
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Looking to eat your weight in deep fried food?</div>
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Ice cream bars for the trendy folk</div>
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Unknown flavored tea and possibly juice and a heck of a lot of ice</div>
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Hey mango head lady!</div>
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Since I already bought all the souvenirs I was planning to buy (if you want anything tell me like now and I might still be able to get something but probably not), all I was initially interested in when going to the market was the food, but then I stumbled upon all the vintage clothing stalls and I was suddenly in trouble. I ended up not buying that much and it was all like incredibly cheap. Found two dresses and a skirt that literally smell like a grandma which I like to think reinforces that they are actually vintage. I finally found a pair of light wash Levi's that fit me like a glove and they were only $15! Sort of funny I had to come all the way to Bangkok for them. Also found a shirt that looks like it came from Africa from the brand Ethnic Labels. Anyway the vintage stalls were pretty cool, however, their coolness didn't quite translate into the pictures.<br />
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Thais sure love their prints</div>
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One thing that made me feel really good about myself was toward the end of my roaming I stumbled upon the Levi's stall and sweat was literally dripping off my face and all the hair around my face was soaked. I went to try on the jeans and was so sweaty I couldn't get my own pants off (sorry if thats too much information). When I was leaving all the girls told me I was beautiful and I was so shocked I said, "Thank you! I'm so hot!" as if that might help to explain that normally my hair wasn't that wet and sticking to my face.<br />
Sitting in traffic the whole way home was certainly worth the trip.<br />
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I would love "The impression of espresso" thank you!</div>
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How convenient... I needed 117 million fake flowers.</div>
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Because if its not a ukulele you're looking for... maybe a bath mat?</div>
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Some really colorful fuzzys</div>
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Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-58744475279416575612014-03-06T00:06:00.000-08:002014-03-06T00:06:29.866-08:00Koh Samet #2This past weekend I went to Koh Samet again. I had to work saturday for a bit, but they let us take monday off so it worked out pretty well. The trek there took around 5 hours total to get from my apartment to the beach and this is considered a short trip. Since it was dinner time by the time we got settled on Saturday we decided to go to the best dinner place ever, Red Ginger. I got seafood fettuccine. I'm not really sure how I feel about squid in fettuccine, but sacrifices have to be made sometimes. Since I don't much enjoy going out without my girls with me, I went home after dinner to hang out by myself. Gosh Thailand is making me so lame.<br />
Surprise! In the middle of the night I got woken up by the bathroom light and wait what is that noise? Parker (a fellow english teacher who was staying in the same room) was throwing up in the bathroom. Like 8 million more times that happened. He got food poisoning. Morning comes and he is far to sick to do anything so I buy him some water and snacks and hit the beach solo. Before the beach I had one of the worst breakfasts ever so that was a bummer, but oh well. I should have guessed the bacon would taste like diseased dog right? I got to the beach and picked my spot.<br />
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Postcard life!</div>
I got some serious back pain from the van ride to the beach so I was thinking about getting a massage, but only if someone came up to me and asked if I wanted one. Lucky for them and me a lady came up and asked if I wanted a manicure after laughing at how chipped my nail polish was. I said nothing and pointed to the massage and said, "Can I do this?" and she said, "Oh! Yes!" It was only 250 baht for a shoulder/back/head massage. To appease my ever present money weary mind, I decided because I was getting a massage on the beach I would not buy any alcohol. Then I wondered why in gods name I hadn't thought of that before?! Brilliant! So there I was laying on a blanket on the beach having a terribly painful massage that was half painful in a good way and half painful in a painful way. She rubbed all this oil on my back and I convinced myself it would be okay to not put more sunscreen on, that I would do it later. But I forgot because I always forget everything and I got one serious sunburn. Like I got back 3 days ago and I started peeling already.<br />
I find myself splurging on fruit when at the beach. I feel it is important to get a coconut. This is because of two fairly simple reasons. 1. You get the most bang for your buck (this point can be easily debated I know). A delicious beverage that once finished has become a nice little snack as well. 2. Because eating the snack that is fresh uncut coconut is fairly time consuming which lets be honest, when at the beach from 9am to sundown a way to pass the time is certainly welcome.<br />
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I finished like the entire book for the second time since I've been here</div>
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I left the beach early because I got too sunburnt and went back to the room. Due to Parker's sickness, I read in the room until it was too dark and then went to dinner alone. While walking to Red Ginger I was stopped by some young short Australian guy who in wanting to talk to me blocked my path and forced me to step in the street making me immediately unattracted to him. I then proceeded to my dinner place alone after I told him several times that my plans for the night involved eating a salad. I got my favorite grilled goat cheese salad and a coke. When I finished the salad the owner, this old white haired white beard Canadian guy named Roger who called me sweetheart, came and sat with me. He chatted about his life and asked about mine. It was pretty nice.<br />
I left the next morning fairly early after eating a huge amount of mango and banana for breakfast. I was the last one to get on the van so I sat up front in the middle seat that doubled as a center console, but was mostly just a center console. Needless to say my butt was numb the entire time. I got to see the scenery though and the driver (this big thai guy wearing a Tommy Hilfiger jersey) was super nice. He asked if I was okay with a thumbs up and then shook my hand which I loved because Thai people never shake hands, it must be a western custom. So accommodating. We then continued to communicate via various hand signals and I realized that everyone can speak a little sign language. Overall the trip was not as thrilling as I had expected it to be, but it was still a good time and hey I got to eat my favorite salad and see some puppies!<br />
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He had a face like Sadie</div>
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Peanuts! Water!</div>
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Just kidding thats the guy with a grill and chicken in one basket and veggies and rice in the other.</div>
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Get well soon!</div>
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Hey Buddha</div>
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Fruit city</div>
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This was the path from my "hotel room" to the main road...</div>
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The ferry dock</div>
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I almost missed my ferry because I wasn't paying attention like a dummy</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-66063663411234409352014-03-04T01:54:00.000-08:002014-03-04T01:54:16.473-08:00The Farewell PartyThe farewell party was so early because the Chinese teachers go home... well they actually might have already left by now. It was after "school" on friday. School is in quotes because it was a finals day and so us foreign teachers were doing nothing but killing time all day. I read a lot of adolescent literature online and watched TV shows.<br />
All of a sudden at around 3pm all this food starts arriving and I'm getting thrilled because I know I just saw two watermelons in those bags and 4 bottles of soda. There was a ton of food. Some prepared by the teachers and some bought from someone down the road selling it out of a cart somewhere. I was especially thrilled for the som tom (pronouced more like sew-m taaam). In american its called papaya salad which doesn't at all explain what it is. Its like this spicy like salad made with shredded green papaya (that tastes more like if you shredded cucumber or squash). Its hard to explain, but its pretty tasty. Usually they make it not too spicy for Americans (I really cannot understand the spice tolerance that thais have. It is seriously impressive. Like oh you just chopped up 8 thai chilies for one dish that is essentially salad? Casual.), but this lady made it more for thais. Needless to say that my tongue and throat were burning uncontrollably, yet I kept eating it because I didn't want them to think I didn't like it.<br />
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The assortment of food was enormous and some of it was kind of scary.</div>
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I ate some mini hot dogs, a piece of fried chicken, papaya salad and a ton of watermelon</div>
The night was basically us chatting and eating and people singing karaoke. Normally they go to a restaurant, but one teacher really likes karaoke so he had us have it at school. I refused to sing like the party pooper I am. In my defense I am still getting over a cough. I danced for like 13 seconds though.<br />
The teachers gave this speech about how they loved us and would miss us. It was touching. Then they gave us all these shawls. It was very kind. If I'm ever half as kind as these people, I will consider myself lucky.<br />
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It was a great little family dinner</div>
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Group photo</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-47257058064959061002014-02-27T19:50:00.000-08:002014-02-27T19:50:38.411-08:00Saturday AdventuresLast Saturday I did some much needed and a little unneeded shopping. Spent too much baht, but whatever and all that. I got some people some gifts that I'm pretty thrilled about. I also got myself some gifts that I'm also pretty thrilled about. Perhaps the most exciting gift I got myself was a salad.<br />
I shared a tuk tuk (taxi type thing in the first photo) with this great little french couple. Gotta love that french accent. I told them I was going to Paris soon and I don't think the woman spoke very good english because her response was, "Paris is a very big city." I was like yeah totally lady. The only thing the man said to me was, "Do you speak French?" and after I responded with, "No, only English," he just sort of looked away and didn't talk to me anymore. It was classic. They smiled a lot which was right up my alley.<br />
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Riding around the streets of Bangkok</div>
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This wall was covered in murals that all seemed to be based on reading.</div>
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It was wonderful.</div>
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Read for life!</div>
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I forgot it was there after we passed it so I forgot to go back and take more photos</div>
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Khao San in all its glory</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-85554670920168470052014-02-21T03:55:00.001-08:002014-02-21T03:55:48.481-08:00Later students...I had my very last day of teaching. I never thought the day would come. I will say, I don't think my teaching abilities got any better the entire time I was here. I think I just learned how to get by better which may sound bad, but I am quite proud of myself for that alone. Teaching is the hardest thing I have ever done. I haven't done many hard things in my short life, but I have done some things other people might find hard. I can say teaching is far more difficult than Calculus 2, weeding your dads palm tree farm in the middle of summer, taking care of small children, running three miles and getting an A on a paper based entirely upon theory. One thing teaching might be equally as difficult as is making good quality well crafted pottery, both of which I have not successfully done so I wouldn't know which is more difficult.<br />
I will miss all my students so much; the smart kids, trouble makers and everything in between. Okay that statement was a bit ambitious (and I'm assuming the grammar is atrocious) since I had like over 800 students in total. So I'll miss all the students I will miss and the ones I will miss fall into those three categories of students. They said such wonderful goodbyes. Some gave me huge hugs and some were too scared to, but made indications that they wanted to. They welcomed me so easily right off the bat and were always so kind to me. They would give me treats in class and if they bumped into me they would turn around really fast and say, "Sorry Teecha!" and wai (put their hands in prayer position in front of their nose and bow) me. I wonder if they knew they were teaching me the whole time. I learned there is never a time when a smile isn't okay (even when you're friend just hit you with the white out you let them borrow). I also learned that even the smallest reason for a celebration is enough. I learned several other things, but most importantly I learned to always say thank you... ALWAYS!<br />
I still have a little less than a month here. We are supposed to get all of our final grades together and such. You know all that stuff teachers do when school ends that none of the students know that they do. I also intend on doing some more fun things so hang in there readers. You can't get rid of me that easy.<br />
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Hey guys thanks for the breakfast most mornings</div>
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Nothing like a good pork skewer and sticky rice for breakfast</div>
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My little 7th graders are so cute</div>
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The scout outfits they have to wear every wednesday are classic</div>
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A couple of trouble makers</div>
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Guys the senior girls loved me</div>
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Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-71216590488491833302014-02-16T23:11:00.000-08:002014-02-16T23:11:18.627-08:00Erawan!!At around 10:30 am on Friday morning we start our journey. Traveling to somewhere never seems all that bad even though it takes ages to go anywhere. Going home is when the journey takes a toll. We arrive at the bus station and eventually hop on a bus that is supposed to be "a little over an hour", but ended up taking closer to over two hours. I actually didn't mind it much though. The bus was super bouncy and I forgot my head phones, but the ride provided some lovely views of rice fields and bright green trees that I don't ever get to see living in a suburb.<br />
We arrive in Suphanburi, my friend Hannah and Franki's town. We walk around a bit and grab some lunch at a local little "hole in the wall". This place was less of a hole in the wall once you went inside, but from the outside I was surprised anyone would be able to tell there was a restaurant there. What I found super interesting was that the tables were inside the restaurant, but the guy cooked the food outside in front of the restaurant (not in the back like in America). It was kind of neat. I'm assuming it allowed the heat and fumes to clear out easier. We had some delicious yellow curry with chicken drumsticks soaked in it. When I first came to Thailand it really freaked me out how they often cook chicken and meat in the soup so the meat has the bones still in it and has been soaking in the broth for ages. Its pretty tasty now though, once you get past the fact that <i>sorry but your fingers are going to get dirty and you might not be able to find napkins</i>.<br />
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Jack and Hannah waiting for food</div>
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They love their elephant shaped bushes here... like A LOT</div>
We spent the rest of friday afternoon chatting and rotating taking showers and playing this wonderfully fun card game involving calling people profanities (okay only one profanity and not the one you're thinking of... it wasn't bullshit). Once we realize it is dinner time we decide to go to a new sushi place. The place was so cute. All the seating was outside and the deck, tables and stools were all made of unfinished pine. Although I will say I think I did a better job with woodwork in my wood shop class junior year of high school than whoever made those tables and stools. The food was delicious though and I ordered far too much that I pawned off on others.<br />
7 am wake up call! Time to trek to the Erawan National Park for the waterfalls! We arrive at the bus station at around 8:30 and leave at around 9. The bus was bouncy once again and took longer than we had thought, but provided some lovely views once again. An old thai woman fell asleep on my shoulder, but that happens fairly often here so it was casual. We arrive in Kanchanaburi and immediately hop on a song teow (pick up truck with benches in the bed) and arrive at the national park at 12:30.<br />
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Everyone smile!... or do something sort of awkward.</div>
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The brightest of the bright greens</div>
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I was not expecting both locals and tourists alike to be EVERYWHERE! Once I got over the initial disappointment that half clothed people would be in all of my photos of the falls, I realized just how beautiful the place was. There were clusters of bamboo that I found so cool. The branches of the other trees bent down low and curved back up to form handles. I felt like Jane from Tarzan. It was amazing how the rocks looked as if they were covered in algae, but it was actually just the change in color and texture of the rock from the erosion of a constant flow of water. The water was a cloudy turquoise which was beautiful. There were huge fish in every pool too and they bit us! I screamed unnecessarily, but it didn't hurt. They were the kind of fish that feed off of dead skin. Not my favorite thing though.<br />
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Every other tourist in Thailand had the same idea as us.</div>
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I thought it was cool that no matter where you go, people have to carve their names in trees</div>
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It was especially beautiful when the sun would shine through the trees</div>
There were 7 different tiers. It was all one waterfall, but each of the seven provided an especially beautiful view of the waterfall. My favorite part was the portion that had these huge rocks that served as the most thrilling natural water slides.<br />
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At some points, like this one, we had to walk through small pools of water</div>
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This provided some nice up close and personal moments with mini waterfalls</div>
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Maggie, Me, Franki and Hannah</div>
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The slides!!</div>
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We loved them!</div>
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The upper most waterfall</div>
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Proved to be difficult to get a good photo of, but it was quite tall</div>
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There were also people in the waterfall at every moment</div>
Overall it was a lovely trip. Sometimes we have to play the spectacle being the only white people in the area, in this case the only white people in a bus packed to the brim. This particular instance was especially uncomfortable with lengthy conversations in thai about us, extensive pointing and staring. In the beginning we just tried to smile, but after 10 minutes of no smiles back it was awkward. Other than the awkwardness and the huge bug spray spill that resulted in my purse forever repelling both bugs and people forever (that I cried about a bit, but without physically crying because crying is for babies), I had a great time!<br />
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Some random dog that decided to go hiking too</div>
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My favorite photo of the falls</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-17813485415442185362014-02-13T19:11:00.000-08:002014-02-13T19:11:45.051-08:00Open HouseYesterday was the most fun school day yet! Firstly, and most importantly, there was no class. Most of the time the thai teachers try to tell us what is going to happen, but I realize now that theres no point. They called yesterday Open House so naturally I pictured it to be something like what we Americans call open house. As I should have expected, it was way different. The second reason it was so fun were the students.<br />
Open House here is essentially a day for each class to do a sort of project where they make something. It can be anything, food, drinks, soap, flower arrangements, toys... anything. Then they make a bunch of posters and set up their classroom to present it. All of the teachers and students go around to all the rooms and check out what everyone has made. Some sell their creations and some, the more generous group, give them away for free. Everyone had a great time. I liked walking around to my students' classrooms because it was an opportunity to speak english with them in a more conversation friendly manner.<br />
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Some guy was selling the cutest cupcakes on the sidewalk outside school for Valentine's Day</div>
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I bought two</div>
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The chocolate one was divine</div>
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They made some rice flavored water</div>
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It basically tasted exactly like if you soaked rice in water</div>
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My little M1 girls (7th graders) made a hand scrub</div>
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"Teecha it make your hand white and soft!"</div>
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I tried to joke with them and tell them I wanted my hand to be tan, but they took it very seriously</div>
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Different M1 class making some salad</div>
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Some students I don't know making mini omelets</div>
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They also created an apparent cafe outside their room</div>
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Parker with one of his lady boy students</div>
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They apparently made some sort of tea</div>
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This class had the best entry way</div>
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Some girls dressed up somewhat inappropriately, but its casual</div>
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Also BABY POWDER!!!</div>
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The soap makers or as they called themselves "The Family Bathroom"</div>
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They got pretty into decorating their rooms</div>
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People here make these flower necklace like things all the time</div>
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They hang them up in their houses and cars to make them smell good</div>
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I mostly just think they're pretty</div>
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Thanks for the pickled cabbage and carrots chick</div>
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I took my camera along on an average trip to the big market on sunday. You never know what you'll see in this place. The ride to the market was unusually terrifying, but terrifying in a good thrilling way. We take song tongs to the market. They're more or less mini trolleys, but with a completely open back. Like a truck with a truck bed that has benches and no tailgate. Theres bars on either side and a riding board, but nothing to go all the way across the back. So I am the only one standing and I'm holding onto the bar above me while we fly over the freeway passing cars on either side, weaving through the lanes. As the wind wonderfully blows through my hair I look back and realize if I let go of this bar above head, I would certainly fly off the back going 40 mph and be run over by the many cars behind us. Casual ride.</div>
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The way back was hilarious. We decide to run for the song tong to try and make it. The scene is right out of a movie. The street lights have countdowns so I'm running as fast as I can in my flip flops holding my bags from the market just watching my time tick away faster than I can run. Jonathan jumps on right as it starts to drive and I obviously don't make it. But then he pushes the buzzer to make the driver stop and now I have to run through the intersection. With only a brief glance over my shoulder I run through and finally make it laughing at myself, only to find the thais aren't at all entertained. This place is classic.</div>
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The sunsets every night are beautiful</div>
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Baby bunnies!!!</div>
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This little dude was so cute</div>
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Was totally expecting this to be water, surprisingly it works quite well.</div>
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It would be so funny if this truck crashed</div>
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Just fishing</div>
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This is long overdo, but I must thank my dear older sister Amy for helping me customize this blog. She has helped so much and took time out of her own day to do so. I am so happy she did so. Love you Aims.</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-62847525670796342422014-02-08T00:31:00.000-08:002014-02-08T00:31:32.377-08:00The end is nearDue to having no school on Valentine's Day, I've had my last day of friday classes. It was so sad. I'm going to miss my students so much. While sometimes they were crazy and uninterested in what I was trying to teach (emphasis on trying), they welcomed me here so easily and naturally. Most of the time they were thrilled to see me, saying hello with smiles stretching across their faces. It was wonderful. The majority of the time I wished I could just hang out with them and chat about life instead of having them do activity 3 and without copying.<br />
I had some pretty touching and hilarious conversations. One thing I love about communicating with the people here is that they often don't know enough words to beat around the bush. They just tell you the flat out truth unknowingly being impolite or uncomfortably forward.<br />
The students were all filing out of the class and one boy comes up to me and says, "Teacha do you have Facebook?" and since it was my last day with them, I decided I would just say yes. His response was, "Okay, what is your name?" It was the funniest thing ever. I sort of stared at him and he handed me his phone and I typed my name in. I love when they say things like that.<br />
I arrive to a class later that day 8 minutes late because I thought I memorized my schedule by now and spent 8 minutes waiting outside the wrong classroom. I often wonder if the students are watching me and thinking <i>what is she doing all the time?</i> So anyway I arrive late and this girl who often asks me to translate her uncomfortably personal conversations with her American boyfriend asks me when I go home. I tell her that I leave in march and she responds with, "Teacha no stay one year? I will miss you! Good luck!" and then began taking her exam. It was so kind and touching.<br />
So on a regular basis the students tell me, "Teacha beautiful!" which sounds more like... Tee-cha boo-ti-ful. No matter how many times you get that from a teenager, trust me, it will always bring a smile to your face. Up until now I have only gotten it from two boy students though and on this last day with these classes I suppose they decided it was time. So I got quite the confidence booster which was nice.<br />
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This class didn't show up so I took a picture of their empty seats instead</div>
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I love the view from the classroom windows</div>
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I think it has to do with the fact that I never had windows at school</div>
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Smiles forever</div>
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"Teecha do peace!"</div>
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This class of misfits were great</div>
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I got 'I love you' from two boys and one girl so that was cool</div>
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The smartest of the smart kids</div>
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Notice they're mostly girls. </div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-6941191891922745632014-02-01T06:29:00.000-08:002014-02-01T06:29:30.498-08:00A beautiful day in the neighborhoodToday Jonathan said to me, "You know we live in Asia right?" and I very quickly and defensively responded, "Yeah." I thought he was calling me stupid and assuming I didn't know Thailand was in Asia. What he was actually trying to get at was how unreal it all still is. It doesn't feel like we live in Asia. Not really. Its more like we just live where we live and thats normal. I think the reality of the situation will really dawn on me when I get back to America.<br />
The year of the horse is upon us! Chinese New Year came and we still had a normal day of school which was a huge bummer. Hello! This is Thailand! We're supposed to celebrate every holiday in the world! Well the next day we get to school and all the thai teachers are down at the daily morning assembly while the foreign teachers remain in the language department, as usual. After about 10 minutes, one of the foreign teachers informs us that first period is likely to be canceled because the assembly is supposed to go longer. I was incredibly surprised (which thinking back is surprising because this happens like A LOT). Then 5 minutes later I remember that yesterday was Chinese New Year and of course there is a celebration.<br />
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So we decide to go down and watch some of the assembly. Some of the students performed songs and some performed dances. They were all excellent and had beautiful costumes on. The director gave money away out of his own pocket as usual. Theres a running joke among us foreign teachers that he makes the people give it back afterward.</div>
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This was the first time I was kind of bummed about my class getting canceled. You see I was informed that we get Valentine's Day off at school. Valentine's day is on a friday and the friday after that is the first day of final exams. So I have to give my students their final exam next week! Guess when I found this out? Oh you know just the week before. So the class that was canceled will not even know that the exam is next week, nor will they have learned the one lesson I was able to teach since midterms ended. So I have to make a final exam based off of a single lesson and it has to be next week. Thrilling news in disguise actually because that also means that all of my seniors who have classes after I give the final get free days and I don't have an many lessons to plan.</div>
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My lovely little students</div>
Aside from this small celebration, not much has been happening around here. All the teachers and students are very aware that the end of term is arriving so soon and everyone has taken an even more laid back approach to teaching. Their laid back approach is closer to the approach I take on a normal basis. In other words, my youngest kids (7th graders) have become exceptional at word searches.<br />
I walked around a bit near my apartment to get some pictures today. Went down a couple roads I hadn't gone down before and saw some neat things.</div>
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Love these colored houses</div>
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The power lines in Thailand look super safe</div>
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I wish I remembered every flower's name like my mom does</div>
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Gardens on the side of the houses</div>
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Laundry day</div>
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I still hate monkeys... even stuffed monkeys</div>
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Delicious looking offerings for Buddha</div>
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Such a cool little gated garden complete with barbed wire</div>
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The protests have been exaggerated upon a bit in the news. Well perhaps not exaggerated upon, but those who write the news articles sure know the impact some dramatic word choice can do. Bang Bon hasn't really been effected by the protests much in the sense of danger. I still feel safe here. The protestors came through once the other week. I got kind of nervous when they all drove past, but it was just a bunch of people walking and some guys in a truck with a megaphone. Nothing too scary. People do have to vote here too though and on our brief walk we realized we were walking past a location for voting. It was all very calm and casual. A lot of people actually were very happy to see us.</div>
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A peace sign made from melted candle wax.</div>
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I wish I could have seen it when the candles were still lit, must have been beautiful.</div>
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It was pretty awkward.</div>
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There were a couple of armored police trucks</div>
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The flags of each party</div>
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The buildings being swallowed up by the trees... dun dun dun</div>
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So Jonathan, Parker and I went to Firehouse. The great burger place... again. Yes, us three do hang out sometimes. We went out a little earlier this time because we didn't want to stay out as late. It takes a bit to get there at that time of night (about an hour and a half) and then eating plus getting home. However, the main reason we went out earlier is because that part of town is a really wealthy part of town, but also pretty sleazy. I have never seen someone pick up a prostitute until I went there. It's super weird, you feel safe and all the restaurants and bars are really nice, and then theres tons of older men walking around alone or with young thai women and I think to myself, "Sir it may be legal here, but you still look like a scum bag." Sorry that went a bit far. Moving on.</div>
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Just riding the BTS with a million other people</div>
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Sometimes I like to stare at my photos and try to figure out what my camera chose to focus on</div>
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Our burgers were delicious as usual. I got the same burger as last time because I wanted to and its not like we're not going back. I also made sure to take pictures of myself eating the burger because I'm weird. It also happened to be happy hour 'buy one drink, get the second free' so that was pretty exciting. After dinner and laughing and eating and drinking we decide to try the german beer restaurant. We wanted some quality beer not made from rice for once. It was really good and we finally got our first photo of the three of us together.</div>
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And the buffalo mozzarella melting beautifully atop that high quality grass fed beef</div>
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After leaving for dinner at 5:30, we finally got home around 10:30. It was a great night. I went to bed that night in a sweatshirt!!! Yes its cold enough to wear a sweatshirt to bed here. Its great.</div>
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On an unrelated note, there isn't much to do here in Bang Bon. I often find myself starting new television series and finishing them relatively quickly. I tend to like the shows that only last 2 seasons. The apocalyptic variety. So anyway I've gotten very interested in this one show called Arrow (not apocalyptic by any means) with this very buff guy in it. They always show him working out which I suspect is supposed to generate some sort of sex appeal, but then theres these girls who are also super strong and well trained in fighting. So now I've started working out in my room again because maybe 20 push ups and 40 crunches will make me a great fighter like the people in the show.</div>
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A taxi for baby sized people</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-34679814962985798492014-01-19T23:40:00.002-08:002014-01-20T00:02:08.481-08:00Just some funny thingsA couple funny things happened today. They are mostly of little to no importance, just a couple things that might give you a hoot. I can't believe I just said hoot.<br />
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This is what "Midterm, No Talking, No Cheating" looks like</div>
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The school got some new gazebos</div>
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I am curious as to what depressed.html is and why it is saved on the desktop of the language department's computer</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-23540613278459813552014-01-17T20:52:00.000-08:002014-01-17T20:52:07.476-08:00New friends and cheeseburgersGuys I made new friends! Jonathan, one of the other teachers here, had some friends visit him who were all originally from Kentucky, but are currently working in Germany. Jonathan invited me to go to the market with them and of course I join them because a girl can only watch so many movies alone in her room (one of my favorite things to do actually). They got to see the big market in all it's glory. I brought my film camera and I am very excited for those pictures to be developed... Some day.<br />
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After the market they were all going to go play basketball under an overpass. I join them again and chat with the only girl among them named Terri. It was so much fun to just sit and watch some friends play basketball and have a full conversation with a girl. We cheered the boys on and they won every game they played, in part because they are great players, but also because Thais are not only small, but very willing to play in flip flops.<br />
I'd forgotten how great it is to spend time with a group of people who speak the same language as you. Don't get me wrong, the Thai people I spend time with each day have become some of my favorite people in the world. However, I'm realizing how often we take for granted something as crucial as communication. I've always (okay not always) loved the written word, but I feel so foolish having forgotten how important the spoken word is as well.<br />
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After the games were won, we all convinced Jonathan to forget about lesson plans and come get dinner with us at a place called Firehouse. Jonathan, Terri, Bret, and Charlie all went there the night before, but it was so good they were going again for a second night. Since I can't deny a good food place, I was convinced almost immediately.</div>
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Seriously one of the best burgers I've ever had</div>
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It was a delicious burger place. It was amazing. Like real cheese and quality meat and they were all towering burgers. Notice in the background of the photo, Bret got a double patty one that is giant. I got the caprese burger because I'm addicted to all things caprese and it was divine. You know in movies and commercials when people can't fit their mouth around the burger? Well it happens in real life too. I must go back. The deathly paralyzing fullness that resulted upon finishing the burger and fries was well worth the bites of heaven that preceded it.</div>
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We spent sometime hanging by those because we didn't want the night to end. Too much fun with new friends and great food. But eventually the reality of school in the morning hit us and at 11:30 we got on bts biding our friends a great flight home the following day. </div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-77191512736455927162014-01-14T19:48:00.002-08:002014-01-14T19:48:35.583-08:00Working hard for my moneyWhen I first came here and everyone told me that Thais were all about fun, I only partially understood what they meant. I tried to imagine it from my American view of 'all about fun'. This obviously didn't suffice because if theres one thing these people know how to do, its laugh and have a good time.<br />
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In the past month we have only had 5 real full days of school, the other days were either shortened or there was no class. So after all of this tough time teaching long hours and endless days of students we have our first real day in about a month. This first real day was yesterday. I was dreading it because on tuesday I have my worst class of all (like so bad that boys burn girls hair in class). It passed by though, as things always do.</div>
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Now get this… since we have tomorrow off for Teacher's Day, the celebration at school had to happen today of course. So surprise the first and second periods are cancelled. So my day just got super rough. Not only did I have class second period (which as I just said got cancelled), I also have two classes with seniors who are taking their midterms this week so those were cancelled. So basically I have been getting paid to blog and go on Facebook lately. Hey guess how many classes I have friday… you wouldn't actually know the answer to this question, but if you were to make an educated guess based off of this blog you might guess that all my classes were cancelled and you would be right!</div>
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Hey you kids! Go over there and stand in some lines! Good!</div>
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Some of the prizes were these coolio bikes</div>
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The winners rode their bikes around the school in Rocky style</div>
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And this is a photo of kids walking across the marble stage on their knees to present the administrators with flowers</div>
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Koh Samet is actually a pretty cool place. It gets a bad rap because its not the paradise that Koh Phi Phi is, but the sand was beautifully white and super soft. There were great places to eat and some cool night life. We didn't even leave our area of the island, so I can only imagine everything else that is available.</div>
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Our 'hotel' (it was more of a hostel that provided a personal room) was kind of hard to find, but we eventually found it. It was a pretty nice place. I used to assume all hotels had matching linens, but it seems I was mistaken. Its the nice hotels that have matching linens. Luckily the hot water worked! In addition on the top level was a random hang out area that I'm not sure was for us, but I spent a good amount of time using the wifi in the hammock.</div>
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We stayed right by the pier and the street that led to the beach was actually pretty cute. It was narrow with shops and homes and restaurants all the way down until you enter the national park.</div>
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The epitome of Thailand</div>
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I love the tree planters everywhere here</div>
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The number one means of cooking here in Thailand</div>
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Things were a little pricier, by pricer I mean I payed $1.50 for a bowl of pad thai instead of $1.20. Super rough right? The entirety of Saturday was spent laying on the beach reading and occasionally swimming and of course eating. It was beautiful.</div>
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The initial setting of the sun on the first night</div>
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The nights were super fun. We started by going to dinner at a restaurant called Red Ginger (its on tripadvisor its that good). The owner is a Canadian guy who was so cool. He was walking around with no shirt on talking to each table individually, asking about their day and what they were thinking of ordering. Such a great guy. He is married to a Thai woman who was really nice and they have a little daughter who was the cutest thing ever. She just watched Disney Jr. the whole time we were eating and made friends with the other little kids eating.</div>
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Ribs with mashed potatoes and coleslaw</div>
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A bad photo of the best salad of all!</div>
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Greens with mango, asian pear, bell pepper, and get this… grilled goat cheese rounds!</div>
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After this we went to find a bar, there were tons on the beach. We chose one that was complete with mats all down the beach. On top of the mats were little pads for everyone to sit on and short tables. Then all of a sudden some guy on the stage starts twirling a bottle that is on fire. Like wait what?! A fire show?! Cool! It progressively got cooler and cooler until there were ten guys with fire batons and then progressed to fire limbo and jumping through a ring of fire. The best part was how casual it all was. Like yeah sure small person, try running through this ring of fire without signing any sort of release form, we don't mind if you burn yourself or sue us.</div>
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The scariest moment of my life</div>
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The 'Firemen' were really strong</div>
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Sorry Johnny Cash it seems you're the only one who fell into the burning ring of fire</div>
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Harry Potter gone clubbing</div>
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Yeah I ate that bug</div>
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And the night ends with our main man… Banana pancake man</div>
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I was surprised at how easy it was to get to the island and back. Special shout out to Parker for always helping me get places. Overall a super fun trip. How could it not be fun though when theres excellent food, fresh fruit and the beach?</div>
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Walking around downtown even now provides some weird and funny views. Can I call art 'weird' or does that mean I just don't 'understand' it. Well whatever it means, there is some weird art in these parts.</div>
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This statue is outside of the Modern Art Museum</div>
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You could take a picture on top of 'her' but I found that… well… weird</div>
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The english in this city just never gets old. People are always trying to use english words for their shops or their advertisements because maybe it makes them look educated or sophisticated. I dont know. What I do know is that they often choose words that are a bit too obvious or generally miss the point entirely. I liked this store name because I agree that the best name for a store that sells silk is Silky. Really gets the message across.</div>
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A strictly enforced No Littering rule</div>
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Some awesome air quality here in Bangkok, wait what color is the sky again?</div>
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Silom is one of my favorite nicer locations in Bangkok</div>
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I had never been to Khao San Rd. during the day before and I really wanted to go because I knew there were more vendors out during the day than at night. I wanted to get my dear friend Natalie a hand made genuine leather purse. The vendor proved the leather was genuine by holding a lighter up to it and the purse didn't catch fire. Previous to now I didn't even know that real leather did that, so not only did the guy unknowingly have an amateur on his hands, but I also learned something new which was thrilling. I know how typical this sounds, but I actually really like Khao San because it has a great feel to it. Theres cheap food and drinks and plenty of bars/cafes with free wifi and you can sit right up to the edge of the sidewalk. I guess I'm your typical tourist. The road isn't closed off, but only crazy people attempt to drive through that kind of mass of people.</div>
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The worlds best I guarantee</div>
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View form where we were eating</div>
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Oh yeah and theres a bunch of white people on this street as well</div>
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The more night life area of Khao San</div>
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The signs for the bars look like they were inspired from classic Las Vegas hotels</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-76882616438877380632014-01-07T18:04:00.000-08:002014-01-07T18:04:00.098-08:00The Jim Thompson House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Jim Thompson House has so far been one of my favorite things to see in Bangkok. Jim Thompson was an American architect who went to Thailand during World War II and fell so in love that he returned to Thailand to live there permanently. His apparent career of architecture seems to have disappeared and instead, upon seeing the beautiful hand woven silk that Thailand is so famous for now, he became a businessman and had a huge contribution to the silk industry's growth worldwide. He even convinced the Editor in Chief of Vogue of its importance in the fashion industry in the 1940s. What a guy right? I wish I could have met him.<br />
His house is a combination of 6 teak homes, 4 from Ayutthaya and 2 from across the canal from his house. He collected artifacts from all over Asia to decorate his home. Everything from 8th century buddha statues to 17th century intricately painted cotton cloth to 19th century Chinese porcelain to a 19th century Chinese mouse house. They wouldn't let me take any pictures inside which was a bummer since like everything was inside the house, naturally.<br />
Sadly in 1967 he disappeared from the highlands in Malaysia. No one knows what happened to him and it seems no one ever will!!!<br />
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Giant fish in a giant pot of water… and thats it!</div>
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A portion of the living room you could see from the outside</div>
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However, you were not allowed to take a photo of the same thing from the inside…</div>
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I'm clearly still bitter about the 'No Photos Inside' rule</div>
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Everyone had to take off their shoes before going into the house</div>
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Silk worms are so fat and cool</div>
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If you look really closely you can see the silk threads coming from the worms above the pot</div>
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A great little purse hanger in the bathroom</div>
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Jungle city</div>
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A prayer house</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-28808116151594569382014-01-04T20:46:00.002-08:002014-01-04T20:46:39.700-08:00How could I forget Krabi!Upon uploading photos from my camera from the past few days I discovered photos I forgot existed along with a day I forgot existed. I can't believe I forgot about Krabi!<br />
The day we had to leave Koh Phi Phi, Mom, Bobo and I caught a long tail boat to the ferry dock on Phi Phi. That was pretty cool actually. I like those little boats. But he didn't let us off on a dock like one might normally assume. Instead he went until the beach got shallow, threw his anchor down and we walked a quarter of a mile (that is my best approximation, I am horrible with approximations) in shin deep water to the beach while he carried our rolling luggage on his shoulders like a boom box. On shore are a bunch of little stands selling the usual… elephant pants, tourist shirts, fake sunglasses, coconuts and banana pancakes. We buy some stuff and get on our way onto the ferry to Krabi.<br />
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Silly me couldn't put two and two together and realize they are called long tail boats because of how long the propeller is.</div>
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I thought they were referring to the long nose and just didn't know good english.</div>
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Beautiful sites everywhere you go</div>
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Bobo soaking up the sun and looking mighty fine doing it</div>
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The color of the water was my favorite</div>
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The walk to the beach in shin deep water</div>
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My camera was still across my body and not my neck resulting is a crooked photo</div>
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Thanks strong man boat driver</div>
We arrive at Krabi and get slammed with, "Madam Taxi?!" repeatedly so we get kind of exhausted and irritated from that. But we can't just go sit at the airport for four hours waiting for our flight. We have to face the taxi men and go somewhere. Mom, the amazing planner of the trip, discovers there will be a night market in Karbi so we go there for 2 hours.<br />
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Welcome to Krabi!</div>
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"What are the gorilla guys for?"</div>
We arrive early so theres not much set up yet. Theres two places to sit and wait while more things are set up, 1. The center of the square that is in direct sunlight and 2. The multitude (jk there were only 3 I think) of bars on the only shady side (no pun intended ha ha ha) of the market. So obviously we choose the second option and each get a drink.<br />
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Prettiest Pina Colada<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIm_oUvACJtNeOXvT5t-ngCmA_mOSCM9CkHVuNGuk-YAUUeXFRHo1ctjmU-uuP3MNi-2DQRD4pF2RWSsUL99_fIMMzODOhN4SAUayrsgL-3WLySvpVRJs-cSHXOCPwjhSmmW7jy9KRNXg/s1600/IMG_0980.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIm_oUvACJtNeOXvT5t-ngCmA_mOSCM9CkHVuNGuk-YAUUeXFRHo1ctjmU-uuP3MNi-2DQRD4pF2RWSsUL99_fIMMzODOhN4SAUayrsgL-3WLySvpVRJs-cSHXOCPwjhSmmW7jy9KRNXg/s640/IMG_0980.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>
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Best Mojito ever created</div>
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Mom liked the local Thai beer</div>
We finish our drinks and realize its dinner time so we decide its time to do the once around of the market. It is the coolest night market ever! Stalls for everything edible, but cooked. No weird scary half alive fish or pound of raw meat anywhere. We got grilled bananas, a banana pancake, coconut ice cream, 4 rolls of sushi (super fresh fish here in Krabi) and 2 chicken kebab tacos that were more of the greek style. It was all so good! This was one of Mom, Bobo and I's favorite places by far!<br />
We meet back up with our taxi man who said he'd wait for us and are on our way to the airport. Such a great last night at the beach.<br />
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Fresh juice is never hard to find here</div>
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Beauifully prepared pineapple</div>
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The sushi man and son</div>
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Sushi City with Bobo</div>
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Oh you forgot to get your nails done?!</div>
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Worry not! You can get it done at the market!… Naturally</div>
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The Banana Pancake Man</div>
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Organic fish cake?!?!?!?!… Appealing to tourists in hilarious ways<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4L5jb4cp_WnbPsP3ShF4QkanN5HtlIhdA-vMawG7W-Nxj2u-8gd2ldJTw3qkIhZYSASLa4ZDjNHIUK2dmvarpAAArzZ002SmATe_9789bQ_mStcgY2hhNbZwVPgWihRMvccd3KBzZIYw/s1600/IMG_0994.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4L5jb4cp_WnbPsP3ShF4QkanN5HtlIhdA-vMawG7W-Nxj2u-8gd2ldJTw3qkIhZYSASLa4ZDjNHIUK2dmvarpAAArzZ002SmATe_9789bQ_mStcgY2hhNbZwVPgWihRMvccd3KBzZIYw/s640/IMG_0994.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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Such a fun ambiance</div>
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Samurai fish BBQ man</div>
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Sooo good! Wish I could eat these everyday!</div>
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Delish chicken with veggies, yogurt sauce, garlic sauce and chili sauce</div>
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I am happiest when I am eating</div>
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Coconut ice cream in a coconut!</div>
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"Picture?! Okay Peace!"</div>
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SPRINKLES!!</div>
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Excellent entertainment from small children</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-25387238560493605202014-01-03T02:45:00.001-08:002014-01-03T02:45:02.306-08:00See you on the flippity flip!The last day with Mom and Bobo was quite exceptional other than a minor room service issue. I know what you're thinking, "Oh my gosh that sounds so horrible that you were in a beautiful hotel and got to order delicious room service and they brought the wrong thing so you had to reorder and eat a little later." But when egg yolks make Bobo puke it is a pretty important issue okay.<br />
We stayed in the Sukhumvit Holiday Inn this time. Our only plan for the day was shopping for souvenirs to bring back. That was the only plan because all three of us are the worst shoppers in the sense that after 15 minutes we get tired and cranky and just want to leave. However, we stuck it out for 2 hours and got everyone things we think they will really like.<br />
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Attempting to navigate the city</div>
I also became a pro at bartering. It takes some thought you know like you can't go too low too fast and you don't want to get ripped off. Most importantly though you have to stand your ground on the price that you want. Don't feel bad for them and go along with their price that is 200 baht more than you wanted to spend! They are trying to rip YOU off! So anyway I think we did pretty good over all. The worst feeling though is when you say a price that you think is super low and they accept right away, then you know you got ripped off. It happens to us all though.<br />
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Sorry Bobo I know you don't like this picture, but it shows our shopping well.</div>
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We got lots of stuff.</div>
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Also you are very pretty.</div>
We went and had a final lunch at our favorite gigantic Gourmet Market (Thai Whole Foods) and went back to the hotel to hang out. We went down to the pool that turned out to be super cool in both senses of the word. So we lounged on these huge poolside loungers the size of a full bed cuddled under a towel that covered the whole length of said lounger. Bob was hanging on her phone, Mom was reading a map, and I was reading. And we were all doing these things just waiting until 5 o'clock came around so we could get a casual drink from 7/11 and go hang out in the room.<br />
A movie paired with a delicious room service sandwich made for a great last evening. I miss them so much already. By 'them' I don't mean the movie and the sandwich if you were confused. I mean I miss Mom and Bobo. It was one successful vacation.<br />
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There is such cool art all over downtown</div>
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White dudes dancing… I think</div>
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Your average tourist photo of a cutie American in Bangkok</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-59926383078478097442013-12-28T09:08:00.001-08:002013-12-28T09:08:03.588-08:00Beachin"I got two tickets to paradise, won't you pack your bags we'll leave tonight." Eddie Money close, but change that to three tickets and you couldn't be more right.<br />
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We arrive in Phuket once it's dark. Bobo hides in the lobby so we don't have to pay for an additional person in our room. We wake up in the morning to the most beautiful pool with elephant fountains and drinks served inside a pineapple. There were two pools. The high class pool looked less fun than the oridinary people pool, but as mom so knowledgably noticed, "Kids sure do know how to have fun."<br />
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Christmas stocking stuffers!</div>
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We loved the stairs</div>
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Private "bubble pool" in elephant city</div>
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Drinks inside pineapples inside the pool</div>
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You walked past the ordinary pool, which was super cool as well, to cross the street and you're on the beach. The beach was huge and so pretty. There were tons of dudes trying to get you to buy everythjng from lounge chairs to whistles to hair braiding. The only thing we gave into buying were henna tattoos that we regretted before he even started. Oh well, 450 baht that will wash off in less than two weeks. Well spent.</div>
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The hotel had a delicious breakfast as usual. Anyone who says Holiday Inns aren't exceptional are crazy. They obviously haven't stayed at a Holiday Inn in Thailand. So anyway there was a lot of lounging by the pool and lounging by the beach and lounging by the pool and walking down the beach and eating and sleeping. </div>
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We were festive at breakfast</div>
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The lounge life</div>
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Bobo and her sand man</div>
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Sweaty the Sandman you know instead of Frosty the Snowman</div>
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My beachin' face</div>
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Merry Christmas!</div>
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How did this postcard get into my blog?!</div>
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After some morning lounging by the pool and breakfast we catch the ferry to go to Ko Phi Phi and get to our hotel at around 5:30. Just a little time layout for ya... Took an hour to drive to the place the ferry left, took two hours on the ferry, then a tractor drove us in a covered wagon type thing down the beach to the steps of our hotel. Rough life right?!</div>
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Riding on the ferry</div>
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Puppy dog Chuck</div>
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We love tractor rides</div>
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The long tail boats</div>
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Hey thanks for the complimentary arrival beverage</div>
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The Holiday Inn here is a bunch of bungalows. We find ours and walk down the whole side of the beach. We then eat dinner (we've started to eat American food because we felt like it okay!) and went back to our bungalow. I fell asleep at 8:30. At 10 o'clock they knock on the door and deliver a birthday cake because somehow the staff was convinced someone in our room was celebrating a birthday. So that was exciting!</div>
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The jungle path to our room</div>
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We woke up in the jungle, clearly.</div>
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A semi bad quality photo of the cake that was too good to not eat before we got a photo</div>
We wake up and have breakfast, as usual. Then lounge by the beach for the next 3 hours. We foolishly didn't realize that we were getting severely sunburned. A sunburn that resulted in a heat rash for yours truly.</div>
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Then it's snorkeling time!! We hop on a long tail boat which kind of felt like the jungle cruise at Disneyland only you were actually going somewhere. We stop at a beautiful bay filled with monkeys. Heck no was I going onto that sand. There was even a sign that said "Beware Monkeys" which I thought, "Hey where was the warning in Lopburi?". We saw some neon fish and they swam so close to us we could touch them which was kind of scary. Mom and bobo saw a 3 foot long eel which they were raving about. At the time not only were my goggles fogging up, but I also had salt water in my left eye. I'm not even a snorkeling rookie so what a loser right?! At the second spot we got stung repeatedly by half dollar sized jelly fish, but we also got funny pictures. </div>
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I'm writing this as we sit looking out at the beach waiting until 11:30 to take our water taxi to the ferry to go to Krabi. Keep ya updated.<br />
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Just another tequila sunrise or afternoon or something like that</div>
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Mr. Hermit Crab</div>
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The ocean was super warm and we were super happy</div>
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The 'wash off your sandy feet' station</div>
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There was a coconut shell ladle</div>
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The infinity pool we didn't find until an hour before we left</div>
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Passed out in the lobby… Someone put sleeping pills in my breakfast</div>
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After I drank crack in my coffee</div>
We got a taxi to the Catholic church that ended up being walking distance and we had to walk an additional 10 minutes because the driver didn't know where he was going. What I don't understand is a lot of the time taxis don't know where you want them to take you, yet their job is taking people places. Honestly if a tourist is trying to go somewhere, how off the beaten track could it be? The church was beautiful. An australian dude told us where the bathroom was in meters and we were like uh okay so just somewhere up ahead on the left? The funniest part though was that the priest was Australian and during his homily he said, "Christmas isn't just about some little baby!" Bobo and I started laughing so hard.<br />
After church we walk back to the hotel which is faster than the taxi ride took. Now to get our nails done! We find this place that has enough room for 3 people for manicures and pedicures. We pick our color then go to the other room to the pedicure chairs. Then all of a sudden each of us have two girls to do our manicures and pedicures simultaneously and we feel like queens of the castle. I'm watching the chicks and I start thinking, "Wow these people are really sanitary, they keep spritzing my nails after every stage of the manicure and pedicure with rubbing alcohol or something. Wait a tick… thats Victoria's Secret body spray. This just got really weird." So at the end we had like 17 hundred gallons of body spray on our feet and hands, but pretty nails too.<br />
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Interesting "Please Note" at the nail salon</div>
The protesters march by the nail salon while we are there and mom is seriously interested in the protesters. She asks every thai person details about it after I told her it's best not to because its a sore subject with them. So of course she asks the nail ladies and the conversation got awkward. Bobo and I starting joking that every time mom went to ask a thai person a question she would come back and say, "They didn't understand what I was saying so I asked about the protests."<br />
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If you want to meet some professional thai cooks well look no further than Bobo, mom and I. In other, more obvious, words we took a cooking class! Bobo and mom were freaking out because we had to walk down this long alley to get to the place. I was chilling though because I'm scared of nothin! Just kidding, I'm just used to the sketchiness that is Thailand. We learned to make 5 traditional thai dishes. Som Tom (papaya salad), Tom Yum (soup), Masaman Curry, Pad Thai, and mango sticky rice. It was the coolest experience. The chef guy was so funny and knew great english because he lived in America for a little while. Guys if you don't have lemon grass, kefir lime leaves and galangal ginger then don't even waste your time making thai food because its not thai food without those 3 key ingredients. Literally Mr. Oatmeal told us that like 7 times. So its official, no food is thai food without THE KEY INGREDIENTS! It was a super fun and yum time.<br />
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Hey look at their aprons.</div>
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Its all about presentation</div>
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Cooking "thai style" AKA on the ground</div>
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Oat (like oatmeal) the coolest chef dude ever</div>
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Tom Yum finished product</div>
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Hey look its the ingredients for Pad Thai on a tray</div>
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Tasted even better than it looks</div>
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Ms. China and some weird posers</div>
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Glamor shots with mango sticky rice and Ms. China</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-31123117658559656112013-12-22T02:02:00.000-08:002013-12-22T02:02:35.803-08:00Saw Some Old Stuff.Lets see some old stuff! Ayutthaya is our plan. It's one of the old capitols of Thailand from around 1300-1700. We wake up early and get breakfast at the coolest breakfast place ever! Well I don't know about ever, but there is a serious selection of breakfast foods from all over the world. So we're really excited. The room only came with two free breakfasts so we sneak mom in, we then get caught and mom leaves. After sneaking out some yogurt and pastries for mom, we take a taxi to the train station.<br />
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Bobo is a poser</div>
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100 cups of guava juice later...</div>
For 45 baht we get three train tickets to Ayutthaya. The train leaves and then 20 minutes later it stops at some random stop for about an hour. That was kind of a bummer, but we bought some pineapple to munch on in the meantime.<br />
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We finally arrive at around noon. After learning when we need to catch the train to go home, we go out and try to figure out what we want to see. Wait what are we even supposed to see in this place? Ruins right? All of a sudden some tuk tuk driver comes up and shows us this map. He says he can take us to 4 different ruin locations for 200 baht per person and get us back in time to catch the train. Mom was hesitant because people here are always trying to rip tourists off, but I figured heck lets do it because we have no idea what we're doing.<br />
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The first place called Wat Phra Mahathat is pretty impressive with tons of restored Buddha statues everywhere and some pretty huge ones at that. At the top of the stairs of the temple you could buy some gold leaf and apply it to various buddha statues inside the temple. So in other words there was a lot of sticky gold leaf flying around everywhere and a lot of people in a tiny room putting sticky gold on old stone buddhas.<br />
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Bobo matched the ruins</div>
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Buddha city</div>
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Which one is not like the others?</div>
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I didn't know cats could wink</div>
To the elephant camp! Bobo was super excited to ride elephants. Like talking about it endlessly. We arrive at Wat Phra Ram and pay 400 baht each for a 15 minute ride around the area. We climb up the "elephant platform" and get ready to go. Mom and Bobo start getting nervous, but then they are on the ellie and smiling so much. The drivers take us to the photo opportunity then keep repeating 'tip' and we all play dumb like we don't know that he's just trying to get mom to give him more money and finally we start our ride back and while getting off the elephants he tries to get us to tip them again. We get kind of irritated like dude lay off, but you know we play it cool.<br />
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Ride on!</div>
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Smooches!</div>
Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit is the third place and home to the largest bronze buddha that was restored. So we took our shoes off, walked into the building, looked at the buddha, 2 mins later we turn around and walk out. Ladies try to rip us off some more. 1000 baht for a postcard? Yeah totally going to pay that lady. So we get back in our tuk tuk and go to the fourth place.<br />
At Wat Mahathat there is an entrance fee for foreigners, but by this time we are kind of fed up with paying all these apparent "foreigner" fees so we act like we're part of a tour group from France and walk in with them. There were tons of ruins as with all the other places, but the coolest thing was the buddha head in the tree branches. All thats left of that dude is the head.<br />
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Some old stuff</div>
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The ransackers always behead the buddhas</div>
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Tree root buddha face</div>
We see all of this and get back an hour before the train comes. The ruins were super cool, but eventually you've seen one brick, you've seen them all. At 3:30 we leave on the express train and get back at 5! It was amazing. I slept the whole way almost. Thanks Bobo for your shoulder and lap to lay on.<br />
Time for some shopping. We go to the high end mall food court for dinner and eat at a place similar to Whole Foods then continue shopping around. Mom goes to get her first massage in 10 years and Bobo and I go get ice cream from 7/11.<br />
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Free cotton candy to win a ticket to the One Direction concert</div>
Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715130618446204866.post-58843884623961560812013-12-20T06:01:00.001-08:002013-12-20T06:48:19.601-08:00I think she's sitting on top of me.The weekend has come and we finally get to enjoy the Bangkok vacation! After I'm finished with classes I leave and we all pack our stuff up and catch a taxi. The taxi ride takes about an hour and 45 minutes due to the immense amount of traffic caused by a combination of the protests as well as school getting out. The second we arrive at Holiday Inn (yes a little Chingy was sung) we are thrilled and forget almost immediately that it took that long. Theres Christmas decorations everywhere and ITS A HOTEL!!!<br />
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Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!</div>
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"Leah get your camera ready…" Bob is a creep.</div>
We check out our room and its a shnazzy pad with a circular window. I'm into it. The best part though is that not only does it have a bedside lamp that is not equipped with an LED light, it also has a soft bed, AC, a TV and the best part… hot water! Like can you say amenities?! Literally so thrilled already.<br />
We start walking around deciding to find something to eat because all of us are suddenly really hungry. After a lot of contemplation and uncertainly we decide that we want to go to The Guinness Irish Pub. Thai food is delicious and all, but sometimes you gotta have your non Thai food, you know what I mean? Mom got fish and chips which came with pretty much an entire fish deep fried and a beer, Bobo got a salad (as usual) and a chocolate covered strawberry blended alcoholic drink that tasted as good as it sounds, I got a burger (obviously) and a mint chocolate chip blended alcoholic drink that was complete with two oreos (they knew me so well).<br />
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A little girl in a big world</div>
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"Leah you're not cool enough to take pictures of cool architecture."</div>
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Merry Christmas from the cuties</div>
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So many cuties!</div>
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I told you they fried the whole fish</div>
Our plan for the whole week was to get massages on Friday and now that we are all settled in our new place its time. My back hasn't been more excited in its whole life as a back. Mom is too tired to go, so Bobo and I venture off on our own. The place is across from our hotel, yet took us a little bit to find. We finally get there and tell them we want Thai massages. At first we were nervous because every guide book says something along the lines of, "A woman braving the Thai massage." Like okay anything that is described using the word braving sounds like bad news, but who cares right?! When in Thailand!!<br />
They wash our feet in the lobby of the massage place and we're like, "Oh are they doing it right here?", then I realize they just want us to have clean feet. Then they give us these bamboo sandals, that I wish I could have kept, and lead us upstairs. They gave us scrub like clothing to change into and then had us lay on this bed on the floor. It was super comfortable. The massage was amazing! Like I almost don't even have words to describe it. The lady uses the weight of her whole body to work out all your kinks and its wonderful. I started to think of how funny it was to pay someone to rub your body, then reminded myself that I was thinking too much. 90 minutes later after a lot of 'feels great' plus a little 'hurts so good', sadly it was over.<br />
But wait! There's more! She led me downstairs back to the lobby area and provided some delicious ginger tea. It was the best ginger tea I've ever had. Bobo and I drank ours in pure relaxation then got to wash our hands with the wet heated towel they provided. It was so cool guys. And all of this for a total of 500 baht including tip. Thats about $15 dollars. This place is awesome.Leah Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04057451120222377793noreply@blogger.com0