I started school at the Thai Massage School of Thailand on Monday. I'll be doing levels 1, 2, and 3. So far I've learning so much that it's hard to keep it all straight. There's only one other girl in my class. Her name is Melissa and she's a Canadian who's been living in Taiwan for the past six years. She's super nice. She doesn't have a massage background, but she's doing really well and picks up on the stuff quickly. I mean, I have a massage background and it still get tripped up sometimes. When I get home from class I'm absolutely exhausted and now that Andrea and Mike have left, it takes a lot to convince myself that I need to go see the city. It's not as fun alone.
On Sunday we went to the Sunday Night Market inside the old city. It was insanely busy, filled with stands selling all kinda of goods and food. I bought some key chains and a little box with an elephant on it. I tried on a bunch of dresses but my stupid boobs ruin everything. There were so many people there that you can't really barter to get prices down, but you really don't have to. I mean, the key chains cost me like a dollar for six of them.
We ate at this burrito place call El Diabo outside of the old city wall, because Mike and Andrea hadn't has decent Mexican food in so long. The food was ok. It's owned by an American. It was nice to have a mojito. I took pictures of all the food we ate, or places we ate it.
chocolate chip waffle with banana
water beetle
ancient ice cream
the slower side of the market. near the middle it was almost impossible to walk
I guess I should explain the beetle, huh. Not far from the waffle lady there was a lady selling fried bugs and I sorta thought that 'hey, we're in Thailand, let's try one' so Andrea and Mike bought one to see if I would eat it. It totally grossed me out and I couldn't bring myself to actually put it in my mouth. Some couple with their kid were walking by as we were trying to get it out of the bag and asked if it would be ok if they took video of us eating it. The guy told us that here they remove the head and suck out the insides. Andrea was eventually able to get the head off and I was able to convince myself to actually put the thing up to my lips. The video is here
After class yesterday we wandered around looking the guest house that a lot of people from my school are staying. Mine is super lovely, called Ban Kong Rao. The room is clean and the bed is huge. Andrea, Mike and I all slept in it and there was a couple of feet between me and Andrea and she said she wasn't even touching Mike. I like the neighborhood it's in, there just aren't very many people here and if there are they all keep to themselves. It's very close to ITM, the other big school in town. I did meet one person yesterday while I waited for my school taxi but haven't talked to anyone else.
Tonight I wandered around looking for this jazz club, which I found but no one was playing so I wandered back to my neighborhood and stumbled into this girl named Joy who speaks english and asked if I needed help and then insisted I have a drink with her. There was a guy playing an acoustic guitar and singing in Thai. I wanted live music, I got it.
I'm getting pretty good at looking right before crossing the street instead of left, although it's still very difficult to cross the streets here. There are a ton of motorbikes and they don't really follow any traffic rules. Today I pressed the button to get the walk sign and got it and people still drove through the red light. I almost got hit by a motorbike because I was trying to figure out what kind of fruit this guy was selling from the back of his truck (maybe watermelon, but a little different).
I'm so tired I might die. I'll post pictures of my room later.
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