Oh, Hey there.
Just want to give you another little update.
Since the language camp I've been keeping myself busy, kinda. I had about five days before my little sneaky trip to Bangkok in which I just chilled and did some college stuff. Even got to hangout with the family a little more. Anyways, getting to the exciting part! My two friends and I Augusta from America and Opal who is Thai decided to take a little weekend getaway to the big city. With approval from my family and not from my Rotary, because I would have gotten a big fat NO. So with the promise of staying at my Thai friends apartment we headed on the bus towards Bangkok. Oh, and I got a little surprise on the way, I got to sit next to a MONK! I even took a couple of stalkerish pictures. But the best surprise was when Hannah came running towards me, she had told me that she wasn't going to be able to make it. But YAY! So our group consisted of Opal, Augusta, Hannah, myself and our Thai friend Mack, who's house we would be staying at. We climbed into a cab and funny enough it took us like 5 baht just to get out of the parking lot because there was so much traffic going out of the bus terminal. Later that night we were supposed to meet up with Augustas two friends from AFS, but first we went to Mack's apartment and headed straight for the pool! While there I tried to teach Opal how to swim because here in Thailand it isn't uncommon for them to not know how to swim. A lot of people go into the river in Kamphaengphet but it's just deep enough to stand in or they get floaties. Then we decided to go to a Japanese buffet! YUM. We finally met up with the two other girls, one from America named Carly and a Belgium named Marine. We had great conversations about what they've been up to and how they've just been running around all over Thailand, which I was super jealous about! After about 10 glasses of drinks for each of us (I promise they were non alcoholic!) and WAY too much food we headed to the train market, which didn't even have a train! We walked around everywhere, our biggest goal was to find Augusta an iPod 5 case. We even had another add on, which was a teacher from AFS from Germany named Max. Then Mack, Hannah and I headed back first for the night. All showered up and ready for bed we decided we all needed to have some midnight hot chocolate, which we would save for the morning, which none of us ended up having anyways. Next morning we all woke up late, just like any teenagers would and watched Red Dawn, which was horrible. Then we headed to MBK for lunch which took a long time to find because they don't have maps in the mall and people don't know where anything is. This place is just a huge throw up mall with everything you could think of. We finally got lunch and I actually found a charger for my waterproof camera. BOOYAHHHH. We shopped around a bit more and then we found out there was a huge Cosplay convention outside and surprisingly enough Hannah's sister Bye Bye was dressed up too. It's this huge anime convention and there were photographers EVERYWHERE. These Thai students make there own costumes and act out there characters. It's was really interesting to see and be apart of. After all that excitement we decided to go on the beautiful buses of Bangkok which are only 8 baht, which is about 25 cents! Only a couple set backs, no air conditioning and we didn't have any seats so we stood the whole way. I mean 40+ degrees out and you're trapped inside this vehicle, standing. We finally made it backed to Macks and got changed and what not and then headed to Kao San Road the infamous road that every farang must go to. Thai sellers everywhere with their Ping Pong invitations ( you don't wanna know) and all there "come drink here" signs. The food was more expensive but I mean a mans gotta eat! We walked around a bit, it was all shopping. Mack, Hannah and I stayed as a group as the others went off to a club. Hannah decided to get a dread lock and we actually wound up meeting a really nice lady who was traveling around Asia, we chatted with her for a bit and then headed back to Mack. Randomly while sitting someone called Hannah's name and it was another girl named Lola from the southern district and her boyfriend. We chatted with them for a while and then the lady we had met before joined us too. It was a great little get together but it was pretty late so all three of us headed back home, except for some reason in Bangkok cabs just decide they don't want to drive to places. But luckily Hannah used her female-ness and got us a cab back. We crashed at the apartment while the others stayed at a hostel for the night. The next morning was the last day and we decided to start it off on a happy note, not. We watched a documentary that was on t.v about poor people in America. :( Then we decided to head to this huge market called JJ Market. It took us a while because Mack was staying back because he was headed back to Chiang Rai so we were to fend for ourselves. We met another two AFS students also, Martin from California and Annalia from Germany. It was pretty toasty inside and we all were just overtired but we walked around for a bit and then Opal and I had to head to the bus station back to KPP. We said our goodbyes and got in a cab and got to our van that would be taking us back. Mack thought the van would be better but it actually wasn't because the air conditioning didn't work very well but Opal and I did get the entire back row. Finally in KPP and we both headed back to Opals house were I stayed the night and pretty much the entire next day and watched videos all day. I had a great trip and it was a nice little rebellious thing to do. Next few days are SONGKRAN and then we'll have our SOUTHERN TRIP. This month's probably the busiest I will be!
Much Love
Hannah
P.S Hannah wrote this because William(Cole) is lazy.
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