Friday, 08 August 2008

• A rather modge podged update

  Well friends, it has been a LONG time since I blogged. I've been so busy, that I haven't even had time to think about blogging. Nicole and I did go to Thailand, and it was really cool. It's hard to exactly sum up all we did, but I'll at least try to touch on the really interesting parts. When we got there, we hadn't really planned anything all too well, so we were in search of housing. I'm learning that unless you meticulously plan your entire trip out, finding housing will be the mission of almost everyday :) So...that's what we did when we got there. We were able to find "decent" accommodations. We stayed in Bangkok for about 2 days in the beginning while we planned our next step. Bangkok, well at least Khoa San Road (spelling?) is interesting because there are so many backpackers, but in general it smells...and smells pretty bad. Of course, you can't define a city by only the backpacker area...so I don't want to make any blanket statements about Bangkok. We took a two-day trip that ended up to be very random, and unexpected, but cool. We stayed in a bungalow on a river (this was so beautiful). This place was sorta like a bed and breakfast place (ish). We liked it, well except for the food. So those two days consisted of seeing a very randomly arranged museum, swimming in a beautiful waterfall, and hanging out with our tour guide-Mr. Bob Marley himself :) ha. He was great fun. There were a few more random outings we took with that tour. All in all, we were happy with our two-day extravaganza. So after returning to Bangkok, we decided to go to the southern islands of Thailand. We somehow decided on going to Krabi (I wouldn't recommend that place) which was only our stop over place on our way to Phi Phi Island, which was much better than Krabi. This island was gorgeous. One sad thing was that it rained for days while we were there...so that was a bit of a bummer. But, we were both happy to just be relaxing, and not traveling all over the place. We ended up staying there for the rest of the time. We just hung out, and ate tons and tons of food. I happened to run into a girl that I had met in Korea, who had met my Korean friend in NY ( a very unexpected meeting)...so we hung out with her for a bit as well. On the last day there, I decided to learn to Scuba Dive...so I spent a half day under the sea. I loved it! It's such an odd feeling to be breathing under the water, but it was awesome to see the creatures below. I was lucky enough to see a turtle, and a shark (not the people eating kind). So overall Thailand was very interesting. There were some things we noticed: they have posters or pictures of the king and queen everywhere....like really, really everywhere. Also, they have these little shrines set up that they actually offer food to. We saw them doing that. So...that was a new experience for me. The Thai people are generally friendly, and welcoming.

  Well....so after returning from Thailand, I had to start back to work immediately...and since then, I have been going non-stop for 6 weeks. Part of my job includes working a summer and winter intensive, which is the nice term for intense summer camp. My co-workers and I have basically been living in the office, or attending the millions of activities the school puts on for the students. Now, I sound like I am complaining, but really I had a great time. I will be officially finished with all the summer madness tomorrow...and then for relaxing. So, I hadn't really had time to think about what I was going to do during this vacation, but just yesterday I decided to check out Japan. I will be leaving next week, and will be gone for about 3 weeks. I don't have much planned for that yet, but I did purchase a Lonely Planet book, so hopefully that will help. Well...this hasn't been the most eloquent update, but something is better than nothing I suppose.

  Hope all is well in the States :) I'm beginning to really miss that place.

   

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