Yesterday Melissa, Warner, Sven and I did a cooking class at Thai Kitchen Cookery Centre, which was pretty stinkin' awesome. Everyone else was worn down and hung over from the previous night's karaoke/dancing at Reggae Bar, but since I skipped out on the late night portion I was doing alright. We got to go to a market located near Tha Pae gate that I didn't know existed to look for ingredients for the day's dishes.
We got to cook in a covered patio area with woks lining the walls. We each had a choice of five sets of three dishes, we we all made five things. I chose pad Thai, panang curry paste and the actual dish itself, coconut soup with chicken (basically tom ka), cashews and chicken, papaya salad and mango sticky rice. All of the dishes were pretty easy to make and we each got a cookbook containing all the receipes from the day, including the ones we didn't make. I'm pretty stoked about trying them at home.
A bunch of us went to dinner last night at this india restaurant near the night bazaar called Le Spice. It was pretty delicious and reasonably priced so that was good.
I was on a hunt for prayer beads for Michael. It's all he asked for, but didn't ask until yesterday morning, and I couldn't find any for the life of me. We went to three night markets and found nothing. We found a ton of pants, shirts with weird sayings, overpriced bracelets, weird nicknacks, etc, but no beads. Of course the one person who it's absolutely required for me to get something good for, I can't find what he asked for. He's doing me this giant favor and I'm super grateful, the least I can do is get him some stinkin' beads.
Melissa and I left Warner and Sven to go to rooftop bar and we went to Zoe. They have super cheap mojitos, which would have been nice to realize a little earlier. I might have drank one too many. There was a dj and balloons everywhere and little village kids trying to sell us flower lays when they should have been sleeping. We watched fire throwers outside of Reggea bar and sat on couches at some tucked away bar nook.
On our walk home we passed a Wat that had some sort of disco ball near one of the temple buildings because there was light being refracted all around it. That wasn't the important part of this Wat, though, I had a display case and what looked like a little store in it. Being 2am it was obviously closed, but I saw prayer beads in there. We were asked to leave by some dogs and walked the rest of the way home.
While on the couches last night I noticed that my right shoulder was starting to hurt a little bit. It's not that out of the ordinary for me to get weird little pains so I thought nothing of it. Well, this morning I got up for my massage at school as was unable to lift my arm at all. I can maybe get 10 degrees should flexion and maybe 20 degrees abduction. Duan couldn't even help me as every time she tried to move my arm I wanted to scream. My hand is occasionally getting numb and the whole arm feels heavy. This is exactly how I want to feel during my 30+ hour trip home that starts tonight. Weee...
It's so hot outside and I can't put my hair up. I have to sit in a chair and lean all the way forward so I can use my right arm. Good thing I'm left handed.
I went back to disco Wat this afternoon and had to wake a monk up so I could buy the beads, but mission accomplished.
I should probably pack.
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