Okay, so maybe one more day in Chiang Mai, or two, or three. It's great here.
Annie and Lizi are heading up to Pai tomorrow. Don't know how they've stuck it out in our hostel for the last few days as they're next door to this mental American woman who has the most hacking cough and just sits in her room coughing her guts up. She even had the nerve to come out into the corridor and tell US to keep the noise down at 2 IN THE AFTERNOON - we weren't even being loud. She has well and truly got my goat. My room is upstairs so not so bad, but i can still hear her.
A bit bleary eyed from two successive nights at local nightclub Babylon, I walked out of the hostel looking for lunch and bumped into the girls. They had just met this guy Tom and after lunch he took us to a local lake. It was stunning and we were the only westerners there. I have no idea how we could have been here for so long and nobody had mentioned it to us.
Anyway, we swam, chatted, listened to Tracy Chapman to try and work out if it starts...
"Ooh you've got a fast car"
"We've got a fast car"
"Baby got a fast car"
Inconclusive, but that song has become the tune of the trip and Annie even got the DJ to play it for us at Babylon as the last song the night before. I've seen and done a lot of stuff on this trip but that was one of my favourite moments so far.
OH! and that reminds me. While we were dancing (not to Chapman - Jessie J I think - I'm being very cultural over here) one of the little 10 year-old kids that sells flowers came up to me and started pointing at my crotch. Annie gasped. I tried to move him away. Then he made a rude sexual gesture. We were both shocked, didn't know what to do and just looked pretty blankly at each other.
If only Paul had been there, he would have spanked the little tyke.
After the lake we ended up at a random karaoke place on the outskirts of town - deserted and on top of a car park Tom seemed to know what he was doing and we placed our faith in him. It paid off, but it's always nice to get back to our friendly hostel owner Tim.
Spoke to my good friend Ruth Bath the other day - my first Skype chat since coming here and it's probably the first time I've missed home since I've been here. It was in a silent internet cafe so I felt a bit self conscious about being too loud, but it was just really nice to see a familiar face. It made me miss the summer: Isca, farms, pies, cider, pigs, mud, camping, teaching.
But here I have my good friends Lizi and Annie and they're top. We understand each other very well and I was very lucky to meet them that first night in Chiang Mai.
More adventures to come...
Annie and Lizi are heading up to Pai tomorrow. Don't know how they've stuck it out in our hostel for the last few days as they're next door to this mental American woman who has the most hacking cough and just sits in her room coughing her guts up. She even had the nerve to come out into the corridor and tell US to keep the noise down at 2 IN THE AFTERNOON - we weren't even being loud. She has well and truly got my goat. My room is upstairs so not so bad, but i can still hear her.
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| Splashing about at the lake |
Anyway, we swam, chatted, listened to Tracy Chapman to try and work out if it starts...
"Ooh you've got a fast car"
"We've got a fast car"
"Baby got a fast car"
Inconclusive, but that song has become the tune of the trip and Annie even got the DJ to play it for us at Babylon as the last song the night before. I've seen and done a lot of stuff on this trip but that was one of my favourite moments so far.
OH! and that reminds me. While we were dancing (not to Chapman - Jessie J I think - I'm being very cultural over here) one of the little 10 year-old kids that sells flowers came up to me and started pointing at my crotch. Annie gasped. I tried to move him away. Then he made a rude sexual gesture. We were both shocked, didn't know what to do and just looked pretty blankly at each other.
If only Paul had been there, he would have spanked the little tyke.
After the lake we ended up at a random karaoke place on the outskirts of town - deserted and on top of a car park Tom seemed to know what he was doing and we placed our faith in him. It paid off, but it's always nice to get back to our friendly hostel owner Tim.
Spoke to my good friend Ruth Bath the other day - my first Skype chat since coming here and it's probably the first time I've missed home since I've been here. It was in a silent internet cafe so I felt a bit self conscious about being too loud, but it was just really nice to see a familiar face. It made me miss the summer: Isca, farms, pies, cider, pigs, mud, camping, teaching.
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| Annie and Lizi and some SERIOUS pashing going on in the background! |
More adventures to come...
I think it's time you had a week in a temple. Praying for your liver.
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