Ok. So now. Let's pretend this is my first blog about the Asian Experience! (I AM ON THE CONTINENT of ASIA!!!) SO amazing! And I can honestly say I never thought I'd be out here. Of course I talked about it. But seriously. I am really here! Wow!! :) Well anywho, much has already happened in my first week. And as previously said I am just taking bits from an email earlier sent! I promise I'll do my best to try and update regularly in the future!

Going back to Tuesday (yesterday):
It is currently 10:30 in the morning and I'm beginning to think i am dooooomed for teaching english to these young children! My goodness there are SOO many of them! And all they say is HELLO like 5,000 times to me a day! lol (and yes already after only being with them for one hour!) But now I am on lunch break until 2 which is definitely nice! But then I dont leave the school until 5pm. And after only teaching for 45 min and struggling the entire time...I'm pleased to know I do have such a long break! Quite exhausting just trying to teach "eyes, ears, nose, fingers" and This is my nose, and These are my fingers. I think about only one student walked away from that class having the slightest clue what i was saying~Oh well. Practice makes perfect and I have to start somewhere :)

Now REALLY going back!! Back to Thailand!! Bangkok. Pad Thai. For those who know me really well...well, let's just say we'd all agree that there is NO way I'd even look at eating something like it!! Well not only have I tried it, loved it, and cooked it on the street (yes street food...mmm), I actually crave it!!! Goodness!! :) I came to Thailand with an extra bag, strictly prepared for shopping! Well haven't really bought much yet. One purse which I kind of don't like any more. lol. Bracelet (tiffany's knock off). Still like. Sun hat. LOVE. And yea thats about it! Well. On our last night in Thailand we didnt go to bed. Had a couple cocktails on a roof top bar and then went to a western type bar on Kho San road and had some hooka :) Got home at 3:30am showered, packed, and cabbed to the airport fearing for our life. Taxi driver was driving 180 km/hr (no clue how fast that actually is...but it seemed crazy fast! and we didnt have seat belts!) Got to the airport and being girls, had to pay extra because our bags weighed too much for the budget flight. lol. oh dear. Once we got that all sorted we managed to upgrade our flights coming back to Thailand (so we dont get fined again for overweight bags! hehe) And booked to come back a day earlier to Thailand. We were sad bc we werent going to get to see the MASSIVE market because it was only open on weekends. So now we are heading back on Saturday (18th) evening so we can spend all day sunday shopping!!! :) (thats really going to lead to some serious overweight luggage! lol) We'll see how well I do at bargaining this time around! I wasn't as good as I thought I would be with my knockoff purse. The guy said 1500 thai baht originally. And I thought 500 (what I managed to get him down to) seemed like a good deal at the time. Until I went down a few more stalls and another guy tried selling me the same purse for 250. Bummer. Oh well. So I am now prepared to not spend more than 200 on a purse at this big market. Lesson learned :)
Mexican Restaurant in Thailand, Me on Khao San Road, Temple and Cooking Pad Thai on Khao San Road :)