My Arrival

Feb 8/06

Well, after one night in my swanky hotel room (ok so it was actually just an overpriced dive, but who's keeping track) I took a taxi to Khoa San Rd in Bangkok. I spent a few hours wandering around waiting for my bus to Chiang Mai where I met up with Tiffany. Khoa San Rd is packed with tourists and so far my only impression of Bangkok. Not exactly where I'd want to spend much time but it wasn't as bad as I expected. I spent the whole day sweating and looking at other tourists who were 100x more tanned than I and I felt a little, shall we say.... fugly! I ate pad Thai for about 50 cents from a street vender and hoped on the bus. 12 hours later I was in Chiang Mai at 6:00am. I sat next to a nice boy from Dublin but I hardly spoke b/c I was so jet lagged and fell asleep at about 7:00pm I think. He had such a strong accent that sometimes I would look at him and think, are you sure you're speaking English? Occasionally I would wake b/c our driver was going so fast. I'd wake up and say to myself, oh my gosh we're going to die, and then I'd fall back to sleep. I arrived safely and found my way to Tiffany's guesthouse called "Whiskey Guesthouse" where we stayed for the next couple nights.

That night Tiff and I took a Thai cooking course, and b/c nobody else signed up it was just Tiff and I. We were able to go to the market to pick out our food and then made six lovely Thai dishes. Our teacher was so nice and cute. We ate crazy good food, drank some horrible Chang beer (I thought) with our instructor and heading back to Whiskey GH. I was still very jet lagged so it was an early night for me.