up up and away
Well, can't exactly remember where got up to last blog. Spent another night in Kanchanaburi unplanned (3 nights in total) as decided not to go back to Bangkok early and stayed in this chilled out town to email people, upload pics and chill out.
In the evening met up with Ben and Brendan at the Friend bar again - discovered it was a 24-year-old aussie girl who was shot in Kanchanaburi three weeks ago. It was why it had been so dead.
Had a great night playing pool and so on before heading to the Buddha bar again to watch France v Portugal.
Next day I headed back to Bangkok on a minibus, meeting up with Wouter (Walter) a cool Dutch guy who spoke amazing English, who was on the last leg on his holiday.
We wandered Khao San and areas looking for a place to rest our heads and i ended up on Soi Rambutri again - this time at My House. Abit of a cell but only 180baht with private bathroom.
Did a bit of shopping and we met up for some drinks and Italian food (!) later and then headed back to My House for another drink.
I turned in earlyish as i had to be up at 3.50am to get a taxi to the airport for my flight up north.
The domestic flight was fairly cheap and pretty uneventful. An hour of kip before an hour bus ride to Nong Khai where i came to travel to teach dorm.
People seem pretty friendly - a mix of nationalities and people who have been here a long time or just got here.
Tomorrow (Sat) i have a weekend induction which includes thai classes, how to structure lessons etc, info on culture and cooking! Some of the guys are off to laos this weekend and others to hire Mopeds so i will have to see how my free time pans out.
On Monday and Tuesday there is a holiday so i don't start teaching til Wednesday. Not sure when I head to Namsom (the small town where teaching) but there are two girls Alexis and Daphne who are already there and everyone says are lovely.
I will meet them tonight as 2 guys are leaving tomorrow so we're all going out for food and to a thai club! very hot and sunny now. no malaria here for a decade so if i don't take the tablets now i can use them for chang mai, laos and cambodia and give the rest to hospitals in cambodia!
keep the news coming from home and away...
In the evening met up with Ben and Brendan at the Friend bar again - discovered it was a 24-year-old aussie girl who was shot in Kanchanaburi three weeks ago. It was why it had been so dead.
Had a great night playing pool and so on before heading to the Buddha bar again to watch France v Portugal.
Next day I headed back to Bangkok on a minibus, meeting up with Wouter (Walter) a cool Dutch guy who spoke amazing English, who was on the last leg on his holiday.
We wandered Khao San and areas looking for a place to rest our heads and i ended up on Soi Rambutri again - this time at My House. Abit of a cell but only 180baht with private bathroom.
Did a bit of shopping and we met up for some drinks and Italian food (!) later and then headed back to My House for another drink.
I turned in earlyish as i had to be up at 3.50am to get a taxi to the airport for my flight up north.
The domestic flight was fairly cheap and pretty uneventful. An hour of kip before an hour bus ride to Nong Khai where i came to travel to teach dorm.
People seem pretty friendly - a mix of nationalities and people who have been here a long time or just got here.
Tomorrow (Sat) i have a weekend induction which includes thai classes, how to structure lessons etc, info on culture and cooking! Some of the guys are off to laos this weekend and others to hire Mopeds so i will have to see how my free time pans out.
On Monday and Tuesday there is a holiday so i don't start teaching til Wednesday. Not sure when I head to Namsom (the small town where teaching) but there are two girls Alexis and Daphne who are already there and everyone says are lovely.
I will meet them tonight as 2 guys are leaving tomorrow so we're all going out for food and to a thai club! very hot and sunny now. no malaria here for a decade so if i don't take the tablets now i can use them for chang mai, laos and cambodia and give the rest to hospitals in cambodia!
keep the news coming from home and away...
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